Health & Medicine
These resources include relevant Pioneer databases, Utah Internet resources, and national Internet resources.
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Pioneer Databases
These databases provide access to quality information health and medical information that you won't find free on the Internet.
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Alt HealthWatch
This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990.
GreenFile
GreenFILE, a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment. Comprised of more than 600 scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. The total number of records is approximately 295,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles.
Health Source
Search three databases at once: Health Source - Consumer Edition, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, and Alt HealthWatch.
Health Source - Consumer Edition
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
MedicLatina
MedicLatina is a unique collection of medical research and investigatory journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This Spanish language database contains full text for nearly 120 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish.
MEDLINE
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
Selected Utah Health Resources
Eccles Health Sciences Library
Serves the educational, research, and clinical needs of health professionals, students and researchers at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center and through-out the Intermountain region.
The State of Utah's Health
Key facts health facts covering Utah's health. Includes: health indicators, obesity and obesity-related facts, and public health preparedness. From the Healthier America Project at Trust for America's Health.
Utah Administrative Code - Health
Effective rules issued by agencies of the state of Utah.
- Center for Multicultural Health - Health care for minorities
- Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) - Clinical care and health care coordination
- CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program) - State health insurance plan for children (ages 0-19)
- Diabetes Prevention and Control Program - Help for all Utahns at risk for and affected by diabetes
- Disease Reporting - Communicable disease reporting information and forms
- Family Dental Plan (FDP) - Direct clinical dental care through the Bureau of Clinical Services
- Health Clinics of Utah (HCU) - Direct clinical health care through the Bureau of Clinical Services
- Immunization Program - Online resource for immunization information
- Indicator-Based Information System for Public Health (IBIS-PH) - Publications, indicator reports and statistics for Utah
- Maternal and Child Health - Addresses the health needs among the maternal and child populations
- MyHealthCare in Utah - Patient safety, find a doctor, verify a license, and file a complaint - Find Hospital Comparison Reports
- Patient Safety Initiative - Consumer information about patient safety in health care facilities
- Primary Care and Rural Health - Health resource for Utah's rural, multicultural and underserved communities
- UPP (Utah's Premium Partnership for Health Insurance) - Affordable health insurance for working individuals and families
- Utah's Health Care Safety Net - Connects the public with Health Care Safety Net medical, dental, and mental health providers
- Utah Medicaid- Who qualifies, how to apply, and what are the benefits
- Vital Records and Statistics - Certifies births, deaths, marriages, and divorces - Order certificates online
- WIC: Women, Infants & Children Program - Nutrition program
Utah Bureau of Health Promotion
The Bureau’s programs, with public and private sector partners, deliver effective health promotion and prevention services and education in communities, schools, worksites, and health care settings. The programs are:
- A Healthier You Legacy Awards
- Arthritis
- Asthma
- Baby Your Baby
- Cancer Control
- Check Your Health
- Chronic Disease Genomics
- Diabetes Prevention and Control
- Healthy Utah
- Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention
- Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Obesity
- Tobacco Prevention & Control
- Utah Cancer Action Network (UCAN)
- Utah Council for Worksite Health Promotion (UCWHP)
- Violence & Injury Prevention Program
Utahealthnet
Utahealthnet is a statewide consumer health information infrastructure project. Provides access high quality health information, resources, services and programs.
Utah Health Information Network (UHIN)
The mission of UHIN is to provide the consumer of health care services with reduced costs, improved health care quality and access.
Utah Medicaid
Find information about Utah's Medicaid Program here such as general information on who may qualify,how to apply, and what are the benefits.
National Resources
A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia
The A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Information about Medicare and Medicaid programs. Search the Medicare Coverage Database, Physician Fee Schedule Search, and Firststep (benefits for the homeless).
HCUPnet
HCUPnet is a free, on-line query system based on data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). It provides access to health statistics and information on hospital inpatient and emergency department utilization.
Healthcare 411
Healthcare 411, a news series produced by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), gives consumers information they can use to improve the quality of their health care and help them navigate the health care system.
healthfinder.gov
Links to carefully selected information and Web sites from over 1,500 health-related government and nonprofit health and human services organizations.
MedWorm
MedWorm is a medical RSS feed provider as well as a search engine built on data collected from RSS feeds. MedWorm collects updates from over 6000 authoritative data sources (growing each day) via RSS feeds. From the data collected, MedWorm provides new outgoing RSS feeds on various medical categories that you can subscribe to, via the free MedWorm online service, or another RSS reader of your choice, such as Bloglines, Newsgator, Google Reader or FeedDemon. Search or browse by category.
PubMed
PubMed is a free service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
An online search from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service provides the nutrient content of 7,519 different foods.
www.health.gov
A portal to the Web sites of a number of multi-agency health initiatives and activities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other Federal departments and agencies.