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Health Science Databases

URLs:

Alt Healthwatch:	http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=ehost&defaultdb=awh
Health Source: Consumer Edition:	http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=ehost&defaultdb=hxh
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition:	http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=ehost&defaultdb=hch

Description:

The Health Science Databases consist of the following EBSCO products:

Health Source: Consumer Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Alt HealthWatch

Health Source: Consumer Edition offers information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences, nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. This database includes the following:

searchable fulltext for over 160 journals including the British Medical Journal and The Lancet
abstracts and indexing for over 180 general health, nutritional and professional health care publications
20 health research books, including books published by the People's Medical Society
thousands of essays from Clinical Reference Systems covering eight major health related subjects, including adult health, behaviour health, cardiology, drug and medication information, pediatric health, senior health, women's health and sports medicine
Stedman's Medical Dictionary , providing users with access to terminology of genetics, oncology, pediatrics, pulmonology, emergency medicine, bacteriology, and laboratory medicine
searchable full text for over 1,016 health-related pamphlets

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition is comprised of more than 560 scholarly full text journals focussing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong.

Alt HealthWatch focusses on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It includes approximately 50,000 articles from over 174 international, peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings and association and consumer newsletters (most from 1990 to the present), plus hundreds of pamplets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. In addition to the standard bibliographic citations, the database indexes each article by more than 225 subject categories, 16 articles types and 11 publication types.

Lexi-PALS
according to the vendor: "You can find the following information for drug content in Lexi-PALS:

Full name and pronunciation of a drug
U.S., Canadian and Mexican brand names
Pharmacologic category
Reasons not to take a drug
Reasons for which a drug is used
How a drug works
How a drug is best taken
What to do if a dose is missed
What the precautions are when taking a drug
What should be monitored when taking a drug
Reasons to call a healthcare provider
How a drug should be stored"

The Health Science Databases are similar to, but not identical with, the Consumer Health Complete product available to all BC ELN libraries through the Multi-Sector Database Bundle project. For more information on the differences please see http://www.eln.bc.ca/view.php?id=1602.

Licence Dates:

01-Jan-2010 to 31-Dec-2010

Terms & Conditions:

More Info

GODOT-enabled:

Yes

Licence Participants:

Participating Sites

Vendor:

EBSCO Publishing

Content Producer:

EBSCO Publishing