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CONSUMER HEALTH: A GUIDE TO INFORMATION RESOURCES

KCMA Online Catalog

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*
*check MeSH Subject Headings

Useful LC SUBJECT HEADINGS for this topic:
Health education
Health promotion
Patient education

Useful NLM CALL NUMBERS on this subject:
WB 13Medical encyclopedias
WB 39Medicine. Handbooks
WB 115Internal Medicine
WB 141General diagnosis

OhioLINK Central Catalog

Provides access to the holdings of all OhioLINK member libaries

REFERENCE RESOURCES
Consumer Health
R WA 13 H349 2001Health Issues
R WB 13 G131 1999The Gale Encyclopedia Of Medicine
R WB 13 O976 2001The Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine
R WB 103 En19 2004Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior
R WB 120 A512 1994The American Medical Association Family Medical Guide
R WB 120 M473 1996Mayo Clinic Family Healthbook
Medical
R WB 39 F394 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 39 S257 2000Saunders Manual Of Medical Practice
R WB 39 T365o 1999Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine
R WB 115 A559 Andreoli and Carpenter's Cecil essentials of medicine
R WB 102 F565The 5-Minute Clinical Consult
R WB 115 H322 Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
R WB 141 C976 Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment
R WB 200 D3194 Degowin's Diagnostic Examination

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PERIODICAL INDEXES/DATABASES
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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

ProQuest Nursing Journals*
Access off-campus through the KCMA Proxy Server
Index to full-text articles from over 250 nursing journals.

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

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

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 KCMA library
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.

KidsHealth for Kids
http://kidshealth.org/kid/
Find out how to be a healthy kid at this site.