HEALTH SOURCES at the Henry G. Bennett Memorial Library

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REFERENCE SOURCES

Search the reference collection for brief facts, biographical information, addresses, telephone numbers, statistical information, articles in encyclopedias, general and subject, on all aspects of human knowledge. Much information is included in the general encyclopedias, such as Compton's, Academic American, or World Book. However, more specialized information is included in subject encyclopedias. Additional information can be found in these sources:
 
 

R 070.442 Ed4c	CQ Researcher  Published by Congressional Quarterly, the staff does research a topic of current interest, such as AIDS, gun control, abortion, lotteries, Acid rain, assisted suicide, fetal tissue research, alternative medicine, managed care, organ transplants, reproductive ethics, etc. Great place to start doing research on a topic. Each weekly report contains an extensive bibliography at the end of the report.
R 317.3 Un3s	Statistical Abstract of the United States Published by the United States government. Contains statistics on many current topics, including education, commerce, health, transportation
R 616.02 P56	Physicians Guide to Rare Diseases  Provides description, synonyms, signs and symptoms, treatment and where to go for more information on many rare (under 200,000 people in the U.S. have it) diseases.
R 616.9803 T89i	Industrial Medicine Desk Reference Contains entries on chemicals found in the workplace and their health effects. Gives current exposure limits recommended by the government. Also given is a description of disorders and diseases caused in the workplace, and health hazards in major industries.
R 615.11 P56	Physicians Desk Reference  Includes the latest information on 3000 prescription drugs. It contains description of the drug, indications and usage, precautions, other drug interactions, adverse reactions, dosage, and instructions for use.
R 615.11 P56m	Physicians' Desk Reference Companion Guide  This is a companion guide to the Physicians' Desk Reference. It is "one of the most drug references in current clinical practice". It is a supplement to the Physicians' Desk Reference. It contains a drug interaction index, food interaction cross-reference, side effects index, generic availability guide, and more indexes.
R 616 Am3c3	The American Medical Association Family Medical Guide   Contains articles on symptoms, discussion and treatment of many diseases that is written for the average reader.
R 610 M53b	Merck Manual Centennial Edition, 1999 Most widely used medical text in the world. Used by physicians, medical students, interns, and residents. Some terms may be hard to understand for the layman.
R 616 M53B	The Merck Manual of Medical Information: Home Edition  This book says that it is "the world's most widely used medical reference" It is written for the average person. It contains nearly all the information contained in the Merck Manual, which was written for medical professionals.
R 616 H34b	Health Reference Series  This excellent series contains good, useful information, on health topics, such as: adolescent health, AIDS, allergies, colds, flu, learning disabilities, diabetes, genetic disorders, stress-related disorders, and many more. "Each volume in the series deals comprehensively with a particular area of medical concern ...Nowhere else can general readers find this information conveniently collected, coordinated, and indexed in book form."
R 616.97003 N22a	Allergies A-Z  Contains articles on the reactions to allergens (hives, rashes, sneezing, etc), drugs, medications, and treatment for allergic reactions, plus historical background on the field of allergy and biographical information on its major contributors.
R 617.8 T84e	The Encyclopedia of Deafness and Hearing Disorders  The entries include all dimensions of deafness and hearing disorders, such as: physiology of the ear, experts in education, science, linguistics and communication, famous deaf individuals, organizations and groups for deaf people.
R 616.042 W97e	The Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders and Birth Defects  Contains over 600 entries on the more well known disorders. For each disorder, the condition is described, the prognosis, prevalence, mode of inheritance and availability of carrier screening and prenatal diagnosis are also given.
R 616.00202 G87c	Complete Guide to Symptoms, Illness and Surgery  This book has guidelines on illnesses. For each illness, it provides general information on the illness, such as definition of the illness, body parts involved, signs and symptoms, causes, those that have an increased risk for the illness, and how to prevent the illness. The book also has for each illness what to expect, such as what is the appropriate health care, the diagnostic measures, possible complications, and the probable outcome of the illness. It finally has a section on how to treat each illness, and when you should call the doctor.
R 611 N38a	Atlas of Human Anatomy  Presents well-done illustrations of different sections of the body, such as the abdomen, head and neck, pelvis, upper and lower limb. It shows the bones and ligaments, muscles, nerves, lymph vessels, and veins of all parts of the body.
R 612 H88c	The Human Body: An Illustrated Guide to Its Structure, Function, and Disorders  Contains over one thousand images which reveal the body's structures. Also included are illustrations and descriptions of the causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of many diseases and disorders.
R 362.1025 W93b2	The Best Hospitals in America  Contains descriptions of the top-rated medical facilities in the United States and Canada. For each entry, it includes: any special facilities or programs, any medical specialties, a listing of the well- known specialists, patient satisfaction rating, research done at the hospital, and the admissions policy. This book was published in\ 1995, and so may be getting out of date. For more recent rankings of hospitals, see U.S. News and World Report's Best Hospitals site at: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/best-hospitals/tophosp.htm
R 615.5 T84s	Skin Deep  Contains descriptions of many skin disorders, from acne to zinc deficiency. It also contains descriptions of many skin treatment products and substances, plus a glossary, organizations involved in skin problems, publications on skin problems, and skin problems hotlines.
R 615.9 T84h	The Home Health Guide to Poisons and Antidotes  This book is a guide to identifying, avoiding, and treating ingestion or absorption of toxic substances. This book gives descriptions of over 600 toxic substances. For each toxic substance it gives the symptoms and treatments for poisoning caused by ingestion or absorption. The back of the book contains several appendices: Appendix A contains a listing of home testing kits for toxic substances, Appendix B is a list of poison hotlines, Appendix C contains a list of newsletters on poisons, Appendix D contains a list of organizations, Appendix E contains poison education and information materials, Appendix F contains a listing of poisons by the type of symptoms they produce, Appendix G contains a list of regional Poison Control Centers, and Appendix H contains the toxicity ratings of poisons.
R 613 EN1g	Encyclopedic of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion  This book contains the "best available knowledge" on health primary prevention health promotion that exist. For each entry, there is an introduction, definition of the problem/condition/disease, and then the scope of the problem, and what contributes to the problem, and then what works to solve the problem, what might work, and what doesn't work.
R 613.04244 G25E	Encyclopedia of Women's Health Issues  This book is contains over 200 articles on women's health issues. It takes a more historical, social, economic and political focus on women's health than a treatment focus. It includes biographies on important people in women's health, and articles on laws, agencies and organizations important to women's health.
R 616.003 G130	The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine  This encyclopedia is "a one-stop source for medical information on nearly 1,500 medical disorders, conditions, tests, and treatments...It uses language that laypersons can understand." For each disorder, it gives the definition, causes and & symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and a list of other resources for further information.
R 616.003 H88I	Human Diseases and Conditions  THis is a very readable three volume set that explains and defines many diseases and disorders of the human body. It provides sources to consult for further information.
R 616.04203 G13B	The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders  This encyclopedia "is a unique and invaluable source of information regarding diseases and conditions of genetic origin. This collection of nearly 400 entries provides in-depth coverage of disorders ranging from exceedingly rare to very well known."
R 616.994 G13T	The Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer  This encyclopedia "is a unique and invaluable source of information for anyone touched by cancer. THis collection of over 450 entries provides in-depth coverage of specific cancer types, diagnosis procedures, treatments, cancer side effects, and cancer drugs."
R 616.980303 En1s4	Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety  This fourth edition of this work was published in 1998. The first edition was published back in 1930. It contains the basic health problems that occur in the occupational setting. It covers the body and health care in volume 1, prevention, management and legal, ethical and social policies in the second volume, and volume 3 covers the disciplines engaged in occupational health: engineering, ergonomics, occupational hygiene, epidemiology, and statistics and laboratory work.
R 616.1027 T89e	Encyclopedic Dictionary of Sports Medicine  This book is a must for anyone who wants to understand, prevent or treat physical activity or sports injuries. Contains articles on sports injuries from tennis, cricket, canoeing, rowing, sailing, football, baseball, basketball, golf, skiing, skin diving, swimming, surfing, weight lifting, and other sports and physical activities.
R 610.3 M22	Macmillan Health Encyclopedia  A very well written and easy to understand encyclopedia on health. It is divided into the following volumes: Vol 1: Body Systems Vol 2: Communicable Diseases Vol 3: Non Communicable Diseases Vol 4: Nutrition and Fitness Vol 5: Emotional & Mental Health Vol 6: Sexuality and Reproduction Vol 7: Drugs, Alcohol & Tobacco & Disorders Vol 8: Safety & Environmental Systems Vol 9: Health Care Systems & Index

 

Alternative Medicine

MAGAZINES,JOURNALS, NEWSPAPERS

Unlike books, the contents of journals are not available in the SE library catalog. So where are they located? They are located in magazine and journal indexes. Magazine and journal indexes assign a subject to each article in each journal indexed in the magazine and journal index. Until the 1990's most magazine and journal indexes were in paper, now they are almost all on the Internet. Some of these journal indexes on the Internet index popular magazines, other scholarly, while others are devoted to one subject area, NO Journal Index indexes every journal that is published, so they are selective.

HOW TO FIND ARTICLES IN JOURNALS, MAGAZINES

Step One: Look in a Periodical Index

A periodical index is a publication that indexes the content of periodicals. There are many different periodical indexes, some general and some subject specific. One thing needs to be made clear: There is not any periodical index that indexes every single periodical being published today. So each index is selective in what periodicals it indexes. Periodical indexes tend to index the most important or most popular or most respected or well known periodicals.

PAPER PERIODICAL INDEXES

For many years periodical indexes were published in paper, like a book. They would usually come out every few months with an update, and then come out at the end of the year with an annual cumulation. Paper periodical indexes are cumbersome to use and take some take to look at every year, but they can contain information on many valuable articles written sometimes years ago, and paper indexes are valuable places to search for topics in music, drama, art, literature and history.

ONLINE PERIODICAL INDEXES

Why use online databases?

• It is much easier to use online databases, and you can search years of a database with one search
• You can also find the most recent articles on any topic because most online databases are updated daily or weekly

There is a disadvantage to online databases for those who are researching topics in history or literature

• Most online databases go back only to the 1990's or the 1980's, and so many potentially valuable articles in older magazines and journals can be missed if you search only in online databases.

Some Online Databases that the SE Library Has

1. Where the Databases are located
These databases are all to be found on the SE Library's Electronic Resources Page at: http://www.se.edu/lib/electres.htm

2. What EBSCOHost and FirstSearch are
The word EBSCOhost or FirstSearch to the right of the database name in the table above indicates the name of the database vendor where you can find these databases. If you look at the list of links on the ELectronic Resources page, you will see the links organized by the type of database that they are. You will find EBSCOhost and FirstSearch under the listing of databases called Periodical Databases. When you go down the list, you will see at least two links for both EBSCOhost and FirstSearch. The first link is for those that are on the SE campus. Click on that link, and you will be taken to the list of databases under EBSCOhost or FirstSearch. The second link is the off campus link. This link is necessary to use if you are off of the SE Campus. This link takes you to a page where you will be asked to type in a userid or authorization number, and a password. The userid or authorization number and password to gain access to EBSCOhost and FirstSearch is available at the SE Library Reference Desk, and also is on the proxy server.

Step Two: Check to see if the article is available online Full-Text

Step Three: Check to see if the article is available online Full-Text in another database

Step Four: Check to see if the the SE Library has the journal in paper

Step Five: Use InterLibrary Loan to obtain the article from another college library that has the journal that you want

1. Obtain an Interlibrary loan form from the circulation desk or go to an online InterLibrary Loan form at: http://www.se.edu/lib/illjournalreq.htm for a journal article and http://www.se.edu/lib/illbookreq.htm for Interlibrary loaning a book. 2. Fill out the form, take note that those fields of the form that have an asterisk in front of them are required fields that are needed to send the information via e-mail. Click submit after filling out the form. 3. The process of receiving something from InterLibrary loan takes about 4 days to two weeks, so if InterLibrary Loans are needed,

The Vertical File cabinets on the first floor (by the Juvenile section) contain folders on numerous environmental topics such as: Cancer, Bacteriology, Immunization, heart-diseases, gastrointestinal system-diseases, hypertension, diseases, herpes, health, myocardial infarction, medical care, medicaid.
 
 

Government documents are materials such as reports, handbooks, manuals, studies, congressional hearings about many different Subjects. The collection is arranged by the department of government. Most items in the government documents area can be accessed by subject by using the computer catalog for books. The Government Documents collection is housed on floor 2A.

The Department of Health and Human Services has most of the items that are on the subject of medicine and diseases. Some selected items are:
 
 

HE 20.6210	Vital Statistics of the United States  Contains birth statistics by race, sex, age and other subject areas. Also contains death statistics by age, race, sex, and cause of death. Available online from 1900 to 2002 in PDF files at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/vsus/vsus.htm
HE 20.6213	Health, United States; This annual publication presents national trends in health in the United States. Contains statistics on many subjects, such as life expectancy, National Health care expenditures, national Insurance Coverage, Injury related visits to Hospital ER's, plus death rates for many diseases.
HE 20:7009	Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Published by the Centers for Disease Control, this publication contains research on many health topics, and also provides much useful information and statistics. It is also available online at: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/
HE 22.18	Health Care Financing Review This publication helps readers to understand the U.S. health care system and the Medicare and Medicaid Programs. It does this by providing information and analysis on a broad range of health care financing and delivery issues. This quarterly journal is published by the Health Care Financing Administration, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The back issues are available from 1998 to the present at: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/HealthCareFinancingReview/
	Advance Data This publication comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It contains results of studies or research done on different health topics. It is also available online at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/ad/ad.htm
HE 20.3013.6	NCRR Reporter This Bimonthly publication comes from the National Center for Research Resources. It publishes articles on new biomedical technologies being developed in the United States. It is also available online at: http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/publications/ncrr_reporter/
HE 20.3031	Medicine for the Public (Layman) Series These are a series of pamphlets published by the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health. There are pamphlets on such things as: Brian Aging and Dementia, Cancer, Depression and Manic-Depressive Illness, Blood Transfusions, high blood pressure, arthritis, alzheimer's disease, allergic diseases, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, and epilepsy. The series of lectures are available at: http://www.cc.nih.gov/about/news/mfp.shtml. The lectures are available from 1997 to the present.
HE 20.3559	Environmental Health Perspectives This is the monthly journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and is published by the Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It contains articles related to environmental health, such as: school children with asthma, pesticide use and birth defects, drinking water contaminants, air pollution toxicity, and health problems of DDT use in Mexico. Also available online at: http://www.ehponline.org/. This journal has back issues online through PDF from 1972 to the present.
HE 20.6209	Vital and Health Statistics These are a series of reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They contain statistics and other information on such thing as: illness, unintentional injuries, disability, and use of hospital and other medical services.
Internet	CDC A-Z Index of Health Topics This is a list of medical/health topics arranged alphabetically available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is available at: http://www.cdc.gov/az/

• Health Resources on the Internet
This is an excellent site that contains links to many useful health sites on the Internet. This page contains links to general health sites, nutrition and diet sites, fitness sites, health organizations, health fraud sites, public health sites, health policy sites and sites that pertain to drugs, herbs and medicines.

This site contains links to many useful medical sites on the Internet. There are links to general medical sites, pharmacy sites, consumer health sites, medical organizations, and more.

This site contains links to many useful government medical and health sites.