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.

(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.

(ABC Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia)

Basic statistics for each state and articles on current issues.

(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.

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.

(Cochrane Collaboration, UK)

Includes systematic reviews of medications, procedures and therapies.

Click The Cochrane Library icon to enter the database.

(EBSCO Publishing, USA)

Includes reference books, fact sheets and diagrams.

(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.

(State Government of Victoria, Australia)

A directory of links to health information in various languages.

(GALE, USA)

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.

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.

Laboroatory tests, including screening tests for different age groups.

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.

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)

(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.

(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.

(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.

(National Institutes of Health, USA)

General information on using complementary and alternative medicine. Also information on specific therapies, herbs and dietary supplements.

(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.