Wellness

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Use these sources to understand terminology, obtain background information, identify issues, and get names, dates and an initial literature review.

Black's Medical Dictionary REF R 121.B598 1999
Encyclopediaof Asthma & Respiratory Disorders REF Rc732 .N37 2003
Encyclopedia of Autoimmune Diseases REF Rc600 .C37 2003
Encyclopedia of Complementary & Alternative Medicine REF R733 .N38 2004
Encyclopedia Of Learning DisabilitiesREF LC4704.5 .T86 2002
Encyclopedia of Mental Health REF RA790.5.E53 1998
Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine REF RZ433.M87 1998
Health Care Policy and Politics A to Z REF RA395.A3.R685 2000
Medical Terms: Their Roots and Origins REF R123.T56 1997
Routledge International Encyclopedia Of WomenREF HQ1115 .R69 2000
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Factbooks and Specialized Reference Sources

Gray's Anatomy REF QM 23.2 G73 1985
Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders REF RC455.2 C4 D54 1994
Handbook Of Counseling BF637.C6 H365 2001
Health Care State Rankings 2003 REF RA407.3 .H423 2003
Infectious Diseases Handbook REF RC111.I54 1996
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy REF RC 55 M4 1992
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Pharmaceutical Reference Sources

Clinical Pharmacology
Access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug information for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, such as Ritalin, Prozac, Premarin and chromium.

Drugs Available Abroad REF RSZ51 D77 1991
Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs REF RS51 E85 1999
Natural Pharmacy REF RZ440.L58 1998
Pharmacotherapy Handbook REF RM301.12.P46 1998
Physicians' Desk Reference REF RS75.P5 2002
Physicians' Desk Reference for Nonprescription Drugs REF RM671.A1.P48 2002
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Circulating Items
Here are some health and wellness related items (mostly books) you can checkout and take home to read.

Active Wellness: A Personalized 10 Step Program for Healthy Body, Mind & Spirit
Stress Management RA776.9 .R435 1998
Active Youth: Ideas for Implementing CDC Physical Activity Promotion Guidelines
GV443.A27 1998
Enhancing Children's Wellness RJ102.E54 1997
Exerciseand Disease Management RM725.L45 1999
Exercise for Preventionand Treatment of Illness RM725.E915 1994
Finding the Healer WithinRA778.M758 1996
Fitness Tracker Wellness Profile System [Computer File] GV436.5.E84 1992
Handbook of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention RA427.8.H36 1999
Handbook of Organizational Health Psychology: Programs to Make the Workplace Healthier RC967.5.H36 1998
Healthand Culture : Beyond the Western Paradigm RA418.3.A35A37 1995
Humorand Wellness in Clinical Intervention RC489.H85 H85 2001
Inner Sports [Nonmusical Sound Recording] GV706.4 .I48 1997
Integrated Women's Health: Holistic Approaches For Comprehensive Care
RT120.I5 O476 2000
Managing Stress PZ2.51.M36 1994
Promoting Wellness Throughout the Cancer Care Continuum
[Videorecording] LD2001 .G6t 2000 .W553 (3rd Floor Special Collections)
Staying Strong: Reclaiming the Wisdom of African-American Healing R733.S83 1999
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Databases
These resources provide indexing, abstracts and in some cases full-text access to journal articles.When accessing online resources from off-campus, you will be prompted to enter your user ID; this number is located on the back of your GU ID card. (10059etc.)

Alt HealthWatch

Provides full text of more than 140 publications pertaining to alternative health practices, including full text of many peer-reviewed journals. Look here for in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.

Clinical Pharmacology

Access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug information for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, such as Ritalin, Prozac, Premarin and chromium.

Health Source-Consumer Edition

The richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide with searchable full text for nearly 300 journals. Health topics include: the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

ProQuest

Provides access to a large collection of health and wellness information, including;full-text of titles such as: Total Health; Women's Health Weekly; Obesity, Fitness& Wellness Week; Men's Health, and more.

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature).

CINAHL is a HIGHLY TECHNICAL comprehensive and authoritative index to current published literature in English for nurses and other allied health professionals.

Medline

Medline is a HIGHLY TECHNICAL databasesearchable via the FirstSearch interface; allows simultaneous searching with CINAHL (see above).
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Internet Resources

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Free Medical Journals

http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/

This site lists (and links to) medical journals that provide free online access to some or all of their articles.

Medlineplus

http://www.medlineplus.gov/
Easy to read, consumer oriented materials from the National Library of Medicine on MANY health topics, and drugs--also includes a dictionary. Look here first!

National Health Organizations

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/organizations/all_organizations.html

Here's an A-Z list of health related organizations--with links to their sites everything from the "Administration on Aging" to "Y-Me National Breast Cancer Organization"

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