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- Academic OneFile
- Source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles on a variety of subjects, including environmental studies,
health sciences, and medicine. Integrated with Web of Science for access to cited references.
- Search Academic OneFile
- ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
- Indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. ASSIA includes records from 650 journals in 16 different countries.
- Search ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
- CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
- The authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals,
students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing
for over 1,700 current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating
back to 1982.
- Search EBSCO for CINAHL
- CINAHL with Full Text
- CINAHL with Full Text provides the same indexing coverage as CINAHL but also contains searchable cited references for more than 1,150 journals and provides full text for 329 journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1982 are also included.
- Search CINAHL with Full Text
- Environment Complete
- RECOMMENDED DATABASE: Find articles from 1950-present relating to agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy resources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more; includes full-text.
- Search Envrionment Complete
- Health Reference Center Academic
- Articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases,
public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse,
HMOs, prescription drugs, and more, 1980-current.
- Search Health Reference Center Academic
- LearningExpress Library
- Comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help students and adult learners succeed on academic or licensing tests.
- Search LearningExpress Library
- Natural Standard
- Founded by clinicians and researchers to provide high-quality, evidence-based information
about complementary and alternative therapies, including herbs and supplements.
- Search Natural Standard
- PubMed
- A service of the National Library of Medicine, it provides access to millions of citations back to the mid-1960s; it includes links to sites providing full text articles.
- Search PubMed
- Science Direct
- The full text collection of over 1.5 million articles from 1995 to present
covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including:
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Environmental Science,
Microbiology, Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology.
- Search Science Direct
- WorldCat
- Catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide; contains more than 62 million records.
- Search WorldCat
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Selected Web Sites
- CDC Wonder
- Provides a single point of access to a wide variety of CDC reports, guidelines,
numeric public health data.
- http://wonder.cdc.gov
- Martindale health Science Guide
- Contains thousands of medical cases & grand rounds, teaching files, courses/textbooks, tutorials; also journals, databases.
- http://www.sci.lib.uci/edu/HSG/HSGuide.html
- Medical Matrix
- Ranked, peer-reviewed, annotated, updated clinical medicine resources. Free but must register.
- http://www.medmatrix.org/reg/login.asp
- Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
- Classic general medical textbook available fulltext on the web.
- http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual
- National Center for Health Statistics
- Federal government's principal vital and health statistics agency, provides a wide variety of data.
- http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/index.htm
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ETSU Departmental Web Sites
- Allied Health Sciences
- Offering the B.S.A.H. in Allied Health Leadership, Cardiopulmonary Science
and Radiography
- http://www.etsu.edu/cpah/hrelated
- Communicative Disorders
- Offers the MS and AuD degrees in audiology and speech-language pathology.
- http://www.etsu.edu/cpah/commdis/index.htm
- Environmental Health
- Offers both the B.S.E.H. and M.S.E.H.; both fully accredited by the National
Environmental Health Science and Protection Accreditation Council.
- http://www.etsu.edu/cpah/environ/index.htm
- Health Sciences
- Offers the B.S.in Health Sciences with concentration in Microbiology or
in Medical Technology and an M.S. in Biological Sciences with a concentration
in Microbiology.
- http://wwwetsu.edu/cpah/hsci/index.htm
- Physical Therapy
- Offers a Doctorate in Physical Therapy.
- http://www.etsu.edu/cpah/physther/pt/home.htm
- Public Health
- Offers B.S. degree in Community Health, Health Care Administration, Patient
Education, School Health; an M.P.H. in Community Health, Public Health Administration,
Epidemiology.
- http://www.etsu.edu/cpah/pubheal/index1.asp
- Interdisciplinary Graducate Certificates
- Health Care Management, Gerontology
- http://www.etsu.edu/cpah
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Selected Bibliography
- The encyclopedia of complementary and alternative medicine.
- Navarra, Tova.
- New York : Facts On File, c2004.
- SHERROD Reference Room (No Loan) R733 .N38 2004.
- The ethics of environmentally responsible health care.
- Pierce, Jessica.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- SHERROD Books R725.5 .P547 2004.
- Health, illness, and optimal aging : biological and psychosocial perspectives.
- Aldwin, Carolyn M.
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2004.
- SHERROD Books QP86 .A44 2004.
- Health, United States, 2003 With Chartbook on Trends in the Health of
Americans and Updated Tables, Issued April 2004, (CD-ROM)
- SHERROD Docs Closed Stacks (Ask at Docs Desk) HE 20.6231:H 34/2/CD
- Our health is in your hands.
- Tennessee Department of Health, Office of Minority Health.
- State of Tennessee
- SHERROD Tennessee Documents (Ask at Docs Desk) H 10.9:M 35/PAMPHLET
- Public health and aging : an introduction to maximizing function and well-being.
- Albert, Steven M. (Steven Mark)
- New York : Springer Pub., c2004.
- SHERROD Books RA564.8 .A438 2004
- The quality handbook for health care organizations : a
manager's guide to tools and programs.
- Dlugacz, Yosef D.
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2004.
- SHERROD Books RA971.35 .D58 2004
- Reshaping the future of America's health : roundtable discussion before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, October 1, 2003.
- United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee.
- Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2004.
- SHERROD Docs Closed Stacks (Ask at Docs Desk)Y 4.EC 7:H 34/15
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