Health

(ABC - Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Health-related reports from ABC radio and television.

An index to over two thousand periodicals on a broad range of subjects including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, medicine and the sciences. Many of the articles are available in full text. It is produced in the USA.

(National Breast Cancer Centre, Australia)

Provides practical information and guidance for women who have breast cancer or are concerned they have breast cancer, their families, partners and friends. Includes personal stories and expert information.

(Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australia)

Information on patterns of health and illness, determinants of health, the use of health services and health services expenditure.

(Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, Australia)

A list of clinical trials being undertaken in Australia and New Zealand. Covers a range of therapeutic areas including trials of pharmaceuticals, surgical procedures, preventive measures, lifestyle, devices, rehabilitation strategies and complementary therapies.

(ABC Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia)

Basic statistics for each state and articles on current issues.

(Edith Cowan University, WA Australia)

Includes publications from a wide range of sources such as the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and covers a wide range of issues of relevance to Indigenous health.

(Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australia)

AIHW is Australia's national agency for health and welfare statistics. Most AIHW publications are available in paper copy and online.

(State Government of Victoria, Australia)

Fact sheets on a range of topics, some with an audio version.

(BeyondBlue, Australia)

Depression, anxiety and related substance misuse disorders.

(Black Dog Institute, Australia)

Mood disorders, in particular diagnosis and treatment of depression and Bipolar Disorder.

(Australian National University & CSIRO, Australia)

Focus on depression, symptoms, treatments and where to get help.

(National Breast Cancer Centre, Australia)

Provides practical information and guidance for women who have breast cancer or are concerned they have breast cancer, their families, partners and friends. Includes personal stories and expert information.

CINAHL®, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, covers a wide range of topics including: nursing, alternative therapies, biomedicine, health administration and allied health fields such as speech therapy and dietetics. Includes citations with some full text articles, covers 1982 to the present.

(The Cancer Council NSW, Australia)

Symptoms, causes, treatment and diagnosis, information on the most common cancers. Significant statistical and survey data on cancer in NSW.

(National Cancer Institute, USA)

A comprehensive cancer information source including information on types of cancer, treatments, screening, clinical trials, risk factors, research, and publications and reports. Also provides access to Cancerlit, a bibliographical database of cancer information sources.

(Cancerbackup, UK)

Comprehensive information for cancer patients and families on specific cancer, treatment options, and living with cancer, as well as a gateway to other reliable sources of cancer information. Also includes recent research and developments on cancer.

(Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW Australia)

Provides fact sheets, safety and health information for parents, information for children who are patients in the hospital as well as information on Westmead services, research and a handbook for professionals in children's health.

(Cochrane Collaboration, UK)

Includes systematic reviews of medications, procedures and therapies.

Click The Cochrane Library icon to enter the database.

Consumer Health Complete contains health reference books and encyclopedias, evidence-based health reports, generic drug patient education sheets, medical images and diagrams, physician-generated videos on women's health, healthy aging, general health and men's health, consumer health pamphlets and leaflets, consumer health related periodicals and newswire, as well as animations.

(NSW Breast Cancer Institute, Australia)

A list of specialists and a basic explanation of what happens.

(Family Planning NSW, Australia)

Fact sheets on contraception, menstruation, puberty, sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases for men, women and young people.

(Amedeo Group, Germany)

Provides links to a collection of international medical journals that are available online in full text for free. Browse by title, subject area or language.

(NSW Govt, Dept of Health)

NSW Health Services Directory and Area Health Services.

(State Government of Victoria, Australia)

A directory of links to health information in various languages.

Includes a medical encyclopaedia, a dictionary and journal articles from a variety of popular and scholarly publications.

(Australian Government Dept of Health & Ageing)

Gateway to a range of Australian information.

(Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, Germany)

Evidence-based consumer health and patient information.

Informit is the leading provider of online access to indexes and full text databases of Australasian scholarly research. A product of RMIT Publishing, databases can be divided into the following major subject areas: Agriculture, Arts, Asian, Business, Education, Engineering, Health, History, Indigenous, Law, Media, Reference, Sciences, Social Sciences and Technology.

(Nemours Foundation, USA)

Information for parents includes common illnesses or accidents, first aid, nutrition and parenting issues. Information for kids and teens includes exercise, healthy eating, health problems and dealing with life issues.

(Data Diction, Australia)

Support groups and other community services in NSW.

Provides contact details, qualifications and employment history for doctors practising in Australia. Includes specialists and other healthcare professionals. Can be searched by postcode, language spoken and specialisation.

A fulltext Australian database of clinical and consumer information on drugs and medications including prescription medications, over-the-counter and complementary preparations. Includes information on adverse drug interactions, as well as a disease index, directory of support services and a handbook of diagnosis.

(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, USA)

Information on diseases and healthy living.

Covers over 3000 international medical journals. The key index for recent medical research. Medline does not index consumer health journals.

(National Library of Medicine, USA)

Gateway to over 650 health topics, a mix of short and indepth explanations.

(National Library of Medicine, USA)

Information on various therapies, herbs and dietary supplements. Also news reports on research in this area.

(National Library of Medicine, USA)

(Mental Health Association NSW, Australia)

Information on mental health and support services.

(MIMS Consumer Health Group, Australia)

Consumer information on over 2,000 medications that are available in Australia.

(NPS National Prescribing Service, Australia)

Consumer information on many medications that are available in Australia.

(NSW Health, Australia)

Fact sheets on a range of health topics.

(National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, Australia)

NACCHO is the national peak body representing Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services throughout Australia.

(National Breast Cancer Centre, Australia)

Information on risk factors, detection, treatment and statistics on breast cancer. Also has details of support groups, programs, advocacy groups and personal stories.

(National Occupational Health & Safety Commission, Australia)

Includes statistics and reports related to work fatalities, injuries and compensation, as well as guidelines for implementing occupational health and safety standards and training.

(Federal Department of Health and Ageing, Australia)

Information on how selected medicines are subsidised under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. Also includes information on safety net thresholds.

(Public Health Information Development Unit, Australia)

Each profile includes a number of tables, maps and graphs that cover the following; socio-demographic statistics, number of GPs, immunisation rates, number of premature deaths and estimates of chronic diseases and related risk factors. There are also graphs that compare the profiled area with Sydney, NSW and Australia. The profiles are organised by DGP (Division of General Practice). Each DGP covers a number of adjacent local government areas. For example, Fairfield DGP covers Fairfield, Holroyd, Parramattta and Bankstown.

Pre-CINAHL is a companion database to CINAHL. Use this database to find the newest citations to articles in nursing and allied health publications.

This database provides limited bibliographic information, hence no subject searching. Once the bibliographic records are complete, they are added to the CINAHL database and removed from Pre-CINAHL.

A database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of advertisements and editorial board lists. In 2006, the historical backfiles of the journals were added to the database. Subjects include: Applied psychology, developmental psychology, and personality.

This database provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.

(National Library of Medicine, USA)

Covers over 17 million citations from Medline and other life science journals. Includes biomedical journals as far back as the 1950s. A mixture of full text and abstracts.

(SANE Australia, Australia)

Provides fact sheets on mental illness and related issues, some in languages other than English. Includes guides for carers and relatives of the mentally ill as well as for those with mental illness.

(NSW Health, Australia)

A report on the health of the people in NSW which shows trends, health inequalities and emerging health priorities.

(Merck & Co., USA)

Internet version of popular medical textbook.

(Federal Department of Health and Ageing, Australia)

Provides information about the regulations and control of prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications and medical devices within Australia.

(National Library of Medicine, USA)

An introduction to toxic substances found in the environment such as chemicals in the home and workplace as well as pollutants in the air and water.

(ATSDR Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, USA)

Fact sheets on a wide range of hazardous substances and their impact on human health.

(WorkCover NSW, Australia)

WorkCover NSW manages the state's workplace safety, injury management, and workers compensation systems. This site has occupational health and safety codes of practice and regulations as well as guidelines for specific industries.

(World Health Organization, International)

Information on individual countries and global issues. WHO is a specialist agency of the United Nations.

(NSW State Library & NSW Health, Australia)

Provides accurate and credible information on a range of drug-related issues, such as A–Z information on specific drugs, tips on how to talk to your family about drugs, case studies, statistics and policy documents.

(Kaiser Family Foundation, USA)

International statistics and news on major health care issues such as HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria.

(MIMS Consumer Health Group, Australia)

Information on a range of conditions, tests and treatments.