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Health

Summaries

The information available from the below resources are summaries (aka includes information from of a lot of studies that may or may not include expert option) or written from a consumer health perspective. The below may be published peer reviewed articles (eg. a Cochrane systematic review), or a website with background information about a condition. 

Multidisciplinary Databases

The below databases are multidisciplinary. This means they contain articles from many different disciplines such as medicine, nursing, social sciences, history, education and political science. If you're looking for articles for a question that is multidisciplinary - start your search here!

Subject Specific Article Databases and Indexes

You can also see our full list of Electronic Resources.

Medical, Nursing, Human Nutrition, Human Kinetics, Psychology, & Allied Health Professions

Political Science and Public Policy

General Databases with Health / Policy Content

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