HSLS Update

New! Global Health

Global Health is a new HSLS online resourceavailable through Ovid, which brings together the resources of two internationally renowned databases - the Public Health and Tropical Medicine (PHTM) database, and the human health and diseases information extracted from CAB ABSTRACTS.

Subject coverage includes:

• communicable diseases (including HIV/AIDS)
• tropical diseases, i.e, diseases in the tropics (including field and experimental studies)
• parasitic diseases and parasitology - medical entomology
• human nutrition (including food composition, food poisoning, effects of diet on health, nutritional disorders, and experimental aspects
• community and public health (including chronic diseases, occupational health, health status indicators, the impact of agriculture on health, and cancer epidemiology)
• medicinal and poisonous plants (including pharmacology, tissue culture, animal studies, plant composition, allergens, and toxins)

While 80% of the database Databasescoverage is from journal articles, including a broad analysis of foreign language journals, Global Health also provides significant coverage of books, research reports, patents and standards, dissertations, conference proceedings, annual reports, and electronic-only publications.

Global Health's specific subject strengths, as compared to Ovid MEDLINE, include medical entomology, human nutrition, vector control, and medicinal plants.

Since 40% of the literature in Global Health is unique when compared with MEDLINE, it provides an excellent resource to augment MEDLINE searches for information about international public health. 

Information in this article is from:

<www.cabi-publishing.org/AbstractDatabases.asp?SubjectArea=&PID=328>  and
<www.ovid.com>.