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Health, Fitness & Medical Databases
Unless specified, the following resources are available to all in Ohio or have a library card from any public library in Ohio.
Alt HealthWatch (EBSCOhost)
This alternative health database provides full text for more than 140 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.
Consumer Health Complete (EBSCOhost)
Full text journals, magazines, and reference books from EBSCOhost dealing with health, wellness, fitness, and nutrition – coverage includes a focus on the complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health and wellness. Browse medical, health-related and drug reference books. Read articles on health and fitness. Find sources for alternative health information.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
This full-text database contains full-text content from over 80 magazines, over 100 reference books, thousands of reports, and current health pamphlets. Health Source: Consumer Edition covers a wide variety of subjects including information on specific diseases, fitness, nutrition, diabetes, aging, women’s health, children’s health, and more.
CPL Cardholders only
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
This resource provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from ‘, Creative Nursing, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, […]
Healthy NEO (Cleveland & NE Ohio Data Source)
Healthy NEO contains health and demographic data, quality of life indicators, and evidence-based practices from Northeast Ohio and allows you to create custom charts and maps with this data.
MEDLINE (EBSCOhost)
(U.S. National Library of Medicine) — The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Contains bibliographic citations (e.g., authors, title, and journal reference) and author abstracts from over 3,900 biomedical journals published in the United States and […]
United Way: 211
Need help and unsure where to turn? Call 211: United Way’s 211 service refers callers to community resources like food, utility assistance, employment services, health care, and more. 211 is available 24/7 at no cost to you and you can remain anonymous. Visit ‘, 211oh.org, ‘ or dial ‘, 211, ‘ on your telephone.’, , […]
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