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CONSUMER HEALTH: A GUIDE TO INFORMATION RESOURCES

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KC/Wright State and Affiliates Catalog
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Useful MeSH SUBJECT HEADINGS for this topic:

Clinical medicine
Clinical medicine-handbooks
Disease
Disease-handbooks
Internal medicine
Internal medicine-handbooks

Health education
Medicine
Medicine--handbooks
Patient education
disease by name*
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Useful LC SUBJECT HEADINGS for this topic:

Health education
Health promotion
Patient education

Useful NLM CALL NUMBERS on this subject:

	WB 13	Medical encyclopedias
	WB 39	Medicine. Handbooks
	WB 115	Internal Medicine
	WB 141	General diagnosis

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REFERENCE RESOURCES

Consumer Health
R WB 103 En19 2004	Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior
R WB 120 A512 2004	The American Medical Association Family Medical Guide
Medical
R WB 39 F394f	Ferri's Clinical Advisor: Instant Diagnosis and Treatment
R WB 39 H2358	Handbook Of Diseases
R WB 39 P964	Professional Guide To Diseases
R WB 100 C3888	Cecil Medicine
R WB 102 F565	The 5-Minute Clinical Consult
R WB 115 H322	Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
R WB 200 D3194	Degowin's Diagnostic Examination

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PERIODICAL INDEXES/DATABASES

Health Source: Consumer Edition: Provides access to nearly 590 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 627 journals
CINAHL (Nursing and Allied Health): Index to nursing and allied health periodicals. For articles with a consumer health focus, use Consumer Health Journals limit option
Alt-Health Watch: Full text articles from 170+ peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, association & consumer newsletters on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care
Academic Search Complete: Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering a wide variety of academic areas of study
Middle Search Plus: Provides full text for nearly 150 popular, magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
MAS Ultra--School Edition: Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for over 500 popular general interest and current events , also provides nearly 550 full text pamphlets, 150 full text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos

Periodicals available in the KC library

Health
Natural Health

INTERNET RESOURCES ON THIS TOPIC
Below are some related sites on the World Wide Web:

Child and Adolescent Health: http://www.ohsu.edu/library/consumerhealth/children.shtml
From the Oregon Health and Science University, this site provides links to consumer health information for children and adolescents.
Center for Disease Control: Health Topics A to Z: http://www.cdc.gov/health/diseases.htm
Provides links to information on diseases and health topics found on the CDC web site.
KidsHealth: http://kidshealth.org
This site has separate sections for parents, kids and teens. It offers lots of good information in ways that are appropriate for each age group.
FDA Kids' Home Page: http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/kids/default.htm
Produced by the FDA, this site is intended to bring accurate, science-based informtion to children, parents and educators regarding the use of medicines and food to improve health.
MEDLINEplus: http://medlineplus.gov
The premier consumer health information site from the National Library of Medicine. It should be the first stop for all your consumer health questions. Has Children’s Health and Child and Teen Health Topics sections.
Keep Kids Healthy: http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/index.html
Provides pages relating to children at all ages, newborn through adolescence
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health: http://www.noah-health.org/
Provides links to high quality health information that is specifically written for consumers, including information in Spanish.
healthfinder kids: http://www.healthfinder.gov/kids/
This site is produced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and provides links to reliable health information geared towards kids.