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Resources for Health Services
Resources for Health
This database
provides full-text articles from 600 scholarly journals,
including more than 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing
on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied
health is particularly strong.
MEDLINE is the
database of the National Library of Medicine-- PubMed is
Web interface to the database. Note that a small group
of full-text journals are available through PubMed
Central.
Open-access, online,
peer-reviewed BMC journals that encompasses all the major
biological and medical disciplines. In addition, the medical
journals publish Case Reports, Debates and Study Protocols,
and the biology journals publish Methodology articles. Title list
by subject.
Current, concise
and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription
drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements,
over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. Drugs
may be searched by their generic or brand names. Clinical
Pharmacology is made up of Drug Monograph and Patient Education
Records.
Comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 30 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
Provides health content to support patients' information needs and better understand ing of health-related topics with a focuses on the complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health and wellness.
Consumers can search and browse within the full-text image of magazine articles, medical encyclopedias, and popular reference books such as:
American Medical Association Complete Medical Encyclopedia (Random House 2003) American Medical Association Family Medical Guide (John Wiley 2004) Complete Guide to Prescription & Nonprescription Drugs 2006 Complete Home Medical Guide Cornell Illustrated Encyclopedia of Health (Regnery 2002) Mayo Clinic Guide to Self-Care Mayo Clinic Guide to Women's Cancers Prescription for Herbal Healing (Penguin 2002) This database
provides full-text articles from 600 scholarly journals,
including more than 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing
on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied
health is particularly strong.
The National Cancer Institute provides
this point of access for searching a cancer subset of PubMed.
From the Library and Information Services group of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. Citations direct researchers to journal and newspaper articles, books, book chapters, government reports, court decisions, bills, laws, and audiovisual materials.
Launched in September 2006 by infectious disease researchers at the Children's Hospital Informatics Program in Boston. Need to know where avian flu, salmonella, or dengue fever have been popping up? A quick view of HEALTHmap shows you where more than 50 diseases have been reported around the world, who is reporting, and how "hot" an outbreak is, based on the number of reports. Users can drill down by content and city or narrow by disease and read what has been reported in the last 30 days.
An annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video and art which was developed to be a dynamic, accessible, comprehensive resource in MEDICAL HUMANITIES, for use in health/pre-health and liberal arts settings.
This online resource of medical information features peer-reviewed
articles, medical news, and access to the MEDLINE archives.
The service is free, but does require registration.
Includes over 250 A–Z entries focusing primarily on women pioneers and mentors in medicine.
Search these multi-subject databases for articles focusing on healthcare:
348 leading journals available from the journals' own
sites. Includes articles published online ahead of print;
plus all of Medline -- with links. Title
list by subject.
The Health
Module searches periodicals on health subjects such
as medical conditions, substance abuse, insurance, health
policy, and more.
The Science Citation Index Expanded™ from
Web of Science is a multidisciplinary index to the journal
literature of the sciences. It fully indexes 5,900 major
journals across 150 scientific disciplines—that's
2,100 more journals than the print and CD-ROM versions
of the SCI. The Science Citation Index Expanded includes
all cited references captured from indexed articles.
Resources for the Business apects of Health Care Medical information, including medical news and medical & health journals.
In a "General" Search, " Enter your search terms" then visit the drop-down box for "Select Sources" and select "Healthcare News". Resources for disciplines related to Health AgeLine -
 Includes detailed abstrtacts of resources on aging.
It also includes information about the psychological
aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry,
nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, and physiology.
A subject-specific sociology database with extensive coverage of many important journals published in the field. Notice that you can limit to scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed before you search.
Background Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services)
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people - at home and abroad, providing credible information to enhance health decisions."
Medical Dictionaries and Guides The AIDS Dictionary
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) RC607.A26 W383 1998
(view catalog record)
The Alternative Medicine Handbook
Drexel Library book shelves (1st fl.) R733 .C375 1998 (view catalog record)
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Home Medical Guide
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) RC607.A26 W383 1998
(view catalog record) Dictionary of Public Health Promotion and Education: Terms and Concepts
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) RA440.5 .M634 1996
(view catalog record)
The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) Reference R733 .G34 2001 (view catalog record)
Encyclopedia of Management covers over 300 topics in management theories and applications, written by academics and business professionals who have first hand knowledge of the particular topic or essay they are contributing. Topics include: aggregate planning, benchmarking, logistics, diversification strategy, non-traditional work arrangements, performance measurement, productivity measures, supply chain management, and much more.
The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) RC41 .G35 1999
(view catalog record)
The Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) RC81 .H38 1999
(view catalog record)
HealthSpeak: A Complete Dictionary of America's Health Care System
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) RA395.A3 F738 1996
(view catalog record)
The Merck Manual of Medical Information, 2nd Home edition
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) RC81 .M535 2003
(view catalog record)
The entire table of contents, plus the full text of selected sections is available on the WWW. The Patient's Guide to Medical Tests
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) RC71 .P38 1997
(view catalog record)
PDR Medical Dictionary
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) R121 .P21
2006
(view catalog record)
Professional Guide to Diseases
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) RT65 .P69 2005
(view catalog record)
Slee's Health Care Terms
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) RA423 .S545 2001
(view catalog record)
Stedman's Abbrev.: Abbreviations, Acronymns & Symbols
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) R123 .S69 1999
(view catalog record)
A collection of over 275 reference books including dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, books of quotations, as well as subject-specific titles in a broad range of academic areas. The Medicine collection includes over 20 medical, nursing and allied health dictionaries:
Dun's Healthcare Reference Book
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) HD9994.U5 D86
2004/2005 (view catalog record)
A directory of U.S. healthcare providers and suppliers, with name and geographic indexes.
AHA Hospital Statistics
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) RA981.A2 A6234
2005
(view catalog record)
Published by the American Hospital Association.
Shows all leading causes of death by race and sex for small U.S. geographic areas referred to as Health Service Areas, or HSA's.
Euromonitor International's Global Market Information Database (GMID) provides intelligence on industries, countries, and consumers. Users can create custom statistical profiles of consumers and their households, and compare across countries. Statistics include causes of death, access to healthcare, smoking, obesity, and nutrition. The consumer lifestyle reports provide insight into how and why lifestyles differ from country to country including analysis of household profiles, income, education, eating and drinking habits, shopping habits, leisure and tourism. Health: causes of death, nutrition, smoking, obesity, access to health service. Each country's consumer lifestyle report includes a chapter on health and health care provision.
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) RA407.3 .H423
(view catalog record)
Provides numerical data as well as relative rankings for topics in the following categories: births, deaths, facilities, finance, incidence of disease, personnel, and physical fitness.
Compiled by State Health Data Center in Harrisburg.
Drexel Library - for earlier print editions view catalog record
Morbidity and mortality weekly report : MMWR
Drexel Library E-journal
(view catalog record)
Center for Disease Control publication that "contains data on specific diseases as reported by state and territorial health departments and reports on infectious and chronic diseases, environmental hazards, natural or human-generated disasters, occupational diseases and injuries, and intentional and unintentional injuries. Also included are reports on topics of international interest and notices of events of interest to the public health community."
National Center for Health Statistics monthly publication of birth, death, marriage, and divorce provisional statistics. Four to six supplements per year report final data for previous year as well as A supplement final data on births and another for deaths each year and special topic analyses.
OMH was established in 1986 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It advises the Secretary and the Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS) on public health program activities affecting American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Blacks/African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders.
Drexel Library - for earlier print editions view catalog record
The standard summary of the most important federal government statistics on the social, political, economic, and cultural organization of the United States.
Vital Statistics Report
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) RA407.4.P4 A35
(view catalog record)
Published by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health.
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