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Articles

PubMed

PubMed includes MEDLINE, PREMEDLINE and unique citations from the following now defunct IGM databases : AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE, HISTLINE, and HealthSTAR. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, PubMed is an international bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the preclinical sciences.
MEDLINE - Ovid

Includes the MEDLINE and PREMEDLINE. Covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the preclinical sciences. Uses data leased from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. OVID Technologies subject mapping software analyses users' natural language queries and suggests appropriate terms for searching.
EMBASE

The Excerpta Medica database (EMBASE) produced by Elsevier Science, is a major biomedical and pharmaceutical database covering the following fields: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation. There is selective coverage for nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, psychology, and alternative medicine.
Web of Science

Web of Science provides access to three multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Each Web of Science database includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography). This unique feature allows searching for articles that cite a known author or work.
SCOPUS

Scopus is an abstracts database covering articles from peer-reviewed titles, including international publishers. Subject coverage includes: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering; Life and Health Sciences; Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics; Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; and General Sciences.

Encyclopedias

Methods and Techniques

Statistics and Data

Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Scholars GeoPortal
Health Data & Statistics

Looking for statistics or data related to health topics to use in your assignment? This Western Libraries guide directs you to major sites that contain data and statistics related to disease, health care, nutrition and other health topics. Note that they also contain general socioeconomic data.
ODESI

The site provides textual and graphical representations of data as well as the ability to download data files for analysis using external software such as spreadsheets and SPSS.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Data & Statistics
Statistics Canada
The WWW Virtual Library: Medicine and Health: Epidemiology
WHO Statistical Information System

WHOSIS, the WHO Statistical Information System, is an interactive database bringing together core health statistics for the 193 WHO Member States.

Web Sites

Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
Health Canada
Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Epidemiologic Case Studies

These case studies are interactive exercises developed to teach epidemiologic prinicples and practices. They are based on real-life outbreaks and public health problems.
HSRR (Health Services and Sciences Research Resources)

The HSRR database was designed for health care researchers and health sciences librarians seeking data resources used in health services research, the behavioural and social sciences and public health.