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Online Journal Articles

• Health Source - Nursing Academic  -  550 scholarly full text journals on medical disciplines.  Includes LEXI-PAL for prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products. Titles
• CINAHL with Full Text -  nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine and 17 allied health disciplines. Full text for 331 journals and legal cases, innovations, critical paths, research..  Titles 
• MEDLINE with Full Text  -  the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals; full text for nearly 1,200 journals and more than 1,400,000 full-text articles dating back to 1965.
• Ovid Essential Nursing   - Ovid's Essential Nursing Collection provides electronic versions of today's premium and leading titles in nursing studies - Please logout when finished
• Health & Wellness Resource Center (Gale) - Alternative medicine and some health videos.      
• Health Reference Center (Gale) - Full text for nursing and allied health journals, personal health information from medical journals and consumer health magazines.
• Health Source Nursing -Consumer (EBSCO)  -  Consumer information and patient education content. Titles
• Nursing and Allied Health Database (ProQuest)   provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. Partial dissertations.
• Academic Search Complete - Large general database of articles covering all subjects. 4,000+ titles & thousands of articles. Titles  include: Journal of Nursing Research

Searchable E-books   

E-Journal Access

   -- Contact Library for Special Passwords    

• Biomed Central Open Access Publisher
• Highwire - Medical journals (Excellent - but may not offer current year)
• Evidence-Based Nursing
• Health Policy and Planning
• Health Promotion International 
• American Association of Critical Care Nurses Journal
• Journal of Medical Ethics
• Electronic Journal Subscriptions (EJS)   
• Pubmed | PubMed- Free journals  |  Pubmed (includes SPC/others) | LinkOut (Excellent - but  may not offer current year)
• FreeMedicalJournals.com

• American Journal of Nursing
• Allnurses
• Am. Nursing Association
• Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership (campus access only)
• Cancer Control - Moffitt
• JAMA - direct access - call library for passwords
• Journal of Nursing Education
• MEDLINEplus Health News
• New England Journal of Medicine-Direct
• NurseWeek (online newsletter)
• Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
• Internet Jnl. of Advanced Nursing Practice

Websites

• Aging - Caregivers
• Caphis /Consumer/Patient Health Information Section
• CDC - Nat. Center for Infectious Diseases
• MEDLINE PLUS
• Nursing on the Net
• Healthfinder
• Healthweb
• Healthy People 2010
• HIV InSite
• Kaiser Family Foundation's State Health Facts Online
• Martindale's Nursing Center
• Mayo Clinic
• MEDEM: an information partnership of medical societies
• Medical Subject Headings
• MEDLINE PLUS
• Medline/PubMed
• Merck Sites
• National Institute of Health
• National Library of Medicine
• National Quality Measure Clearinghouse
• National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC)
• Noah
• Nursing Center
• Oncolink: A University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center Resource
• Purdue's Medical Bookmarks
• Student Nurse Center
• Top Nursing Sites from Allnurses.com

• National Library of Medicine. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthstatistics.html
• Fedstats Health Statistics http://www.fedstats.gov/programs/health.html
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  http://www.cdc.gov/node.do/id/0900f3ec8000ec28
• Health, United States 2006- http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm  “An annual report on trends in health statistics.  The report consists of two main sections: A chartbook containing text and figures that illustrates major trends in the health of Americans; and a trend tables section that contains 147 detailed data tables. The two main components are supplemented by an executive summary, a highlights section, an extensive appendix and reference section, and an index.”
• The 2007 Statistical Abstract, The National Data Book http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
“As the National Data Book, it contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included. The Abstract is also your Guide to Sources of other data from the Census Bureau, other Federal agencies, and private organizations.”
• Healthy People 2010 -"http://www.healthypeople.gov/document/tableofcontents.htm" “Healthy People 2010 are a set of health objectives for the Nation to achieve over the first decade of the new century. It can be used by many different people, States, communities, professional organizations, and others to help them develop programs to improve health.
• World Health Organization -
  • Country Health | Comparison
• Center for Disease -Office of Global Health
• Global Health Organization - Global Health Organization
• PanAmerican Health Organization
• Office on Women's Health -  International Health-- http://www.4woman.gov/owh/international.htm
• Infoplease - Chart - leading causes of death, international -- http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0779147.html
• Also see: US Dept. of Health -- Ethnic & Racial Minorities http://www.hhs.gov/specificpopulations/index.shtml#ethnic

• MEDLINEplus Health News
• Nurse Linx
• Medscape | Nursing Center
• Nursing Spectrum

World Health

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