• By Jacquelyn White
  • Posted Saturday, December 3, 2016

ProQuest Health Databases

Reliable health information is free at your public library. Watch videos, find current research on a specific condition, learn more about healthy lifestyles, medications, pain management, and see the latest medical news. Here are just two of the many health resources available at your library.

ProQuest Family Health

ProQuest Family Health covers an enormous range of subjects of value in the public library context - from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry. It includes important general medical journals such as The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicineas well as a strong selection of consumer and news magazines.

Other titles include:
Men's Health
Exceptional Children
Diabetes
Journal of Health and Social Behavior
Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Women's Health Weekly
Pediatrics for Parents
Occupational Health

Subject coverage
Women's health
Food and nutrition
Midwifery
Eye care
Dentistry
Children's health

ProQuest Health & Medical Complete

ProQuest Health and Medical Complete™ combines the clinical research titles available in ProQuest Medical Library™ with hundreds of additional consumer and health administration titles. ProQuest Health and Medical Complete provides in-depth coverage from over 1,500 publications with almost 1,300 available in full text and of these, over 900 include MEDLINE® indexing.

In addition, the database includes all charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements essential to medical research.

The journals cover all major clinical and healthcare disciplines, including medical sciences, immunology, pharmacy and pharmacology, nursing, physical fitness and hygiene, surgery, and others.

Titles include:
The New England Journal of Medicine
The Lancet
Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Journal of Clinical Investigation
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
The American Journal of Psychiatry
Diabetes
Canadian Medical Association. Journal; CMAJ
Rheumatology
American Journal of Public Health

Subject coverage
Anatomy
Physiology
Biochemistry
Pharmacology
Microbiology
Immunology
Parasitology
Pathology
Communicable diseases
Cardiovascular diseases
... And many more!

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