Exercise Science and Health Promotion databases
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Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society Examines the issues that surround cancer and its effects on society. Navigates through the terminology and concepts to provide a better understanding of how cancer affects us way beyond the medical conditions that are regrettably more than obvious. |
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Encyclopedia of Drugs - Alcohol & Addictive Behavior - 3rd Edition Explores the social, medical, legal and political issues related to drugs and alcohol and associated behaviors. Includes emerging topics and developments in the many fields of addiction studies. |
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Health Source provides mainly full text access to the leading scholarly journals focusing on the medical disciplines. The Lexi-PAL Drug Guide is also included and provides patient education sheets for generic and brand name medications. This database can be searched in conjunction with Academic Search Premier and other databases by clicking "Choose Databases." |
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Human Diseases and Conditions - 2nd Edition Presents information on numerous diseases and conditions. Articles include a definition of the disease or condition, an explanation of how it works in the body, information on causes, symptoms and diagnosis, treatment or cure, and lifestyles. |
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This database, which is entirely available in full text, offers information covering a variety of aspects of family health. Some topics include nutrition, sports medicine, dentistry, and midwifery. ProQuest Family Health can be searched with any other ProQuest database. |
ProQuest Health & Medical Complete ProQuest Health & Medical Complete provides access to journals, magazines and dissertations relating to the health management field. Primarily, this database provides searchable information about hospital management, health administration, public health and safety and other related fields. Topics such as finance, personnel management and population studies are also covered in the ways they relate to the medical fields. ProQuest Health Management can be searched with any other ProQuest database. |
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source is meant to be used in both academic and healthcare settings. Much of the information is available in full text, and it ranges from general to very specialized information. Topics include nursing, nutrition, radiology, public health and more. ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source can be searched with any other ProQuest database. |
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PubMed provides access to citations from biomedical literature, many with links to full text documents. MEDLINE, the premier bibliographic database for the life sciences, is accessible through PubMed and dates back to 1950. Use the Journals Database to search for journal articles by subject relating to the biomedical field and other life sciences, or use the drop down menu on the first page to search proteins, genomes, cancer chromosomes and more. |
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This multidisciplinary database is a good place to start your research. For extra search capabilities, click "Choose Databases" and select more subject specific databases to simultaneously search. |
ebrary Academic Complete(electronic books) This collection of e-books includes approximately 47,000 titles in all academic subject areas. Search by title or author for specific books, or search by subject or keyword to find books on a specific topic. All of the e-books in this collection are available in full text. |
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ProQuest Research Library provides citations and/or full-text access to 3,000+ scholarly journals and magazines in a wide range of subject areas. In addition to general interest publications, the database covers the Arts, Business, Children, Education, Health, Humanities, Law, Military, International and Multicultural interests, Psychology, Sciences, Social Sciences, and Women's Interests. |
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Use WorldCat to find books about a research topic that are not available at Holy Spirit Library. Search by title or author if you are looking for something specific, or search by keyword or subject to find something new. Click "Borrow this item from another library" to request a book from another library. |
| Exercise Science and Health Promotion websites |
American Association of the History of Nursing, Inc. The official website of the American Association of the History of Nursing provides a lot of information, including the table of contents of the current issue of the association’s journal, about the history of nursing. Links to other resources are also compiled. |
America’s Health Rankings |
Contagion: Historical Views of Disease and Epidemics This website is part of the Harvard University Library Open Collections Program and makes digitized versions of books, pamphlets, engravings and more available. Materials are organized around well-known “episodes” of contagious disease such as the Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793. |
Digital Collections: History of Medicine |
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This collection of articles looks at genes and genetic disorders. Articles are grouped into broad categories or can be looked up by chromosome. |
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HealthCentral.com provides information about recognizing, managing, and recovering, when applicable, from common ailments such as osteoporosis, herpes, and heart disease. General information about such topics as skin care, food and nutrition, and sleep is also provided. All content is physician-reviewed, except for information presented by community members in their forums. |
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Consisting of clips from NBC’s Digital Health Network, HealthVideo.com provides short videos on a variety of health topics organized by demographic: children’s health, women’s health, men’s health, health and aging, etc. Though the ads on the site are fairly easy to overlook, be prepared for commercials in the videos themselves. |
National Strength and Conditioning Association The National Strength and Conditioning Association aims to promote research-based knowledge as it applies to athletic performance. Their website offers training videos, podcasts and lists of links to non-members. Information about certification exams and career resources are also available. |
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PubMed Central is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM). |
Smoking & Health Resource Library This database, provided by CDC, gives access to citations, many abstracts, and some full text articles relating to smoking and tobacco use. Click “Return to Smoking and Tobacco Use” for tips on how to quit smoking. |
Special Populations: Emergency and Disaster Preparedness This website from the National Library of Medicine is a collection of links related to emergency and disaster preparedness as it effects many special populations including the hearing impaired, Native Americans, people with diabetes and more. |
Women’s Sports Foundation |