Use the subject headings from books you find to find more books. Use the country or region name and other concepts that you want to include. In this case the computer will search for the words medicine, medical or health. For more information on searching the Library catalogue, ask for the Library guide Web SFU Library Catalogue Search Guide at the Reference Desk. Journal articles Periodical indexes and abstracts contain listings of journal articles.
Abstracts give a short summary of the journal article along with the citation.
Bibliographies are books which contain lists of books, articles and other material on a particular topic. These books are a good place to begin your research because they collect a lot of information in one single source. SFU Library has many bibliographies on individual countries in the World Bibliographical Series. Most official statistical agencies of countries and international organisations provide selected statistics on their web sites. SFU Library has many print and electronic statistics publications too.