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earch by keywords/phrases and use Boolean searching. What's Boolean? 

AND: "sex* ed*" AND teen*

OR:  treatment* OR interventions* || "bug spray*" OR "insect repellant*"

Using "Quotation Marks" searches words as a phrase, "public health" 

Limit search results by Date and Peer-Reviewed journals.   

Truncation searches variations of a word. The symbol used is asterisk *

ADOLESCEN* will retrieve: adolescence, adolescent, adolescents, etc.   

Check Subject terms to see if there are any synonym terms to consider.