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Clinical Medicine

Alt HealthWatch (Ebsco) covers complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health
CINAHL (Ebsco) covers clinical medicine, nursing, & allied health (nutrition, exercise, and physical therapy
Health Reference Center - Academic covers fitness, medicine, nutrition, public health, and more.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (Ebsco): covers nursing and allied health
Medline (Ebsco) covers clinical medicine (1950-present)
MedlinePlus: consumer health site covering diseases, drugs, directories, clinical trials, and local services
PsycINFO (CSA): covers mental health, health psychology, and more
StatRef: collection of full text medical, nursing, and pharmaceutical textbooks (no journal articles)

Health Interventions

American Journal of Health Promotion Interactive DataBase: database of interventions that have been rated (free)
DoPHER : Database of promoting health effectiveness reviews, collection of articles on interventions (free)
Health Disparities Database: database from APHA and United Health Foundation programs (free)
Health Evidence: database of reviews on interventions (requires free registration) (free)
Healthy Start Collection Database: database of Healthy Start programs (for maternal and child health) (free)
Model Practices Database: health programs listed by state or health issue (free)

Physical Education / Sports

Physical Education Index (CSA) covers sports medicine, dance, fitness tests, coaching and training, sports equipment, marketing, and psychology. (2001-present)
SPORTDiscus (Ebsco) covers sport, fitness and related disciplines (1949-present)

Biotechnology & Bioengineering Abstracts (CSA) covers biomechanics, human rehabilitation engineering, and more
Exercise Library: database of exercises from American Council of Exercise
Sport Practice Drills: non academic database of drills for various sports

Your Librarian: Margaret Foster

Position

Social Sciences and Education Librarian

Department

Info and Coll Svc - Humanities, Social Sci and Instructional Svc

Contact Information

Evans, Room 1.111B

(979) 862-1893

MFoster@lib-gw.tamu.edu

My Other Guides: KINE 198- Writing Intensive Classes; KINE 304- Psychology of Sport; KINE 307- Lifelong Motor Development; KINE 319- Sociology of Sport; KINE 601- Reading Research Publications in Kinesiology