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Public Health 

A guide to Public Health
Last update: Sep 03rd, 2009 URL: http://dal.ca.libguides.com/publichealth  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Statistics

  • E-Stat  
    Canadian statistics including: statistical time series from the CANSIM database; various Census and selected environmental data.
  • Sources for Health Statistics  
    A comprehensive resource from the Kellogg Library providing links and access to a variety of statistical sources in health. Also provides guidelines on where to start and how to find stats in the library.

Metasearch Engines

  • Prowler  
    Find it fast, Find it now. Articles ... Books ... Encyclopedias ... News ... Theses. Search for stuff on your topic by looking within several databases at the same time using PROWLER, a specialized searching tool of the Dal Libraries.
  • Google Scholar  
    The search engine from Google that retrieves information from books and the scholarly literature.
 

Canadian Resources

  • CBCA Fulltext Reference  
    Indexes over 800 Canadian current affairs and general interest periodicals and eight daily news sources. Full text of over 150 titles. Includes articles on health policy and administration in Canada.
  • Canadian Periodicals  
    Indexes and abstracts Canadian journals and provides full-text for more than 100 Canadian journals.

General Health Care

  • PubMed  
    Provides bibliographic access to 4600 biomedical journals indexed at the National Library of Medicine. Coverage is international and dates from the early 1950's. Includes former HealthSTAR policy/administration database.
  • EMBASE  
    EMBASE journal collection is international with over 6500 biomedical journals from 70 countries. EMBASE features comprehensive coverage of: Human Medicine (Clinical and Experimental), Basic Biological Research, Health Policy and Management and more.
  • CINAHL Fulltext  
    CINAHL is a core resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 1,835 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health and contains more than 1,000,000 records.

News

  • Factiva  
    Worldwide full text coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, news photos, investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, historical market data.
  • Lexis/Nexis  
    Full-text news service specializing in business, legal, and medical news. International in scope and provides up-to-date coverage of news from magazines, journals, newspapers and wire services. Available on campus only in Killam Library Learning Commons.
 

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Anatomy/Cytology, Biochemistry, Community Health & Epidemiology, Genetics, Health Informatics, Health Administration, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Laboratory Medicine, Microbiology, Orthopedics, Pathology, Public Health, Rheumatology, Undergrad Med

 
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