Health and Wellness
Iona University Libraries Research Guide on Health and Wellness
A-Z Database Page
The databases listed below are some of the most relevant to students conducting research for Health & Wellness courses.
Additional databases may be found on the A-Z Database page.
You may want to filter your databases for the subject of the class you are taking to find the recommended databases for that discipline.
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Databases & Streaming Videos
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PubMed This link opens in a new windowPubMed comprises more than 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
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CINAHL with Full Text This link opens in a new window
CINAHL with Full Text provides the full text for nursing and allied health literature and covers a wide range of topics including nursing, biomedicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. (Insights enabled)
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MEDLINE with Full Text This link opens in a new window
This database provides full text for many of the most-used biomedical and health journals indexed in MEDLINE. (Insights enabled)
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Health and Wellness (Gale) This link opens in a new windowThis reference source contains definitions and articles on a number of health and wellness-related topics, as well as news articles and journal articles.
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Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new windowThis database provides access to nursing and allied health journals, plus Health Reference Center and the Alternative Health Module.
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Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new windowUsers will discover proven treatment techniques, examine experimental research theses, and find unique applications for specific sports (everything from baseball and bowling to tennis and yachting).
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PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowThe PsycINFO database, produced by the American Psychological Association’s (APA).
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Health & Medical Collection (ProQuest)This database offers reliable, comprehensive journal coverage of clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration, and more.
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Consumer Health DatabaseThis database includes journals and magazines covering an enormous range of health subjects, from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry.
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Public Health DatabaseOffers access to public health literature, including journals, reports, and videos, covering topics like biostatistics, epidemiology, health services, and environmental health.
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Nursing & Allied Health (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new windowWith a strong emphasis on full text titles cited in CINAHL and over 10 million articles, this collection's current and authoritative content will help nursing professionals already working in the field, as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum. Nursing & Allied Health Collection focuses on research in the allied health fields and management of all sorts of patients.
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Nursing & Allied Health Database This link opens in a new windowProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides abstracting and indexing for more than 850 titles, with over 715 titles in full-text, plus more than 12,000 full text dissertations representing the most rigorous scholarship in nursing and related fields. Find coverage for over 70 wide-ranging topics including: Cytology, Nursing, Nutrition, Oncology, Pediatric Care, Pharmacology, Public Health, and Radiology.
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Ovid Nursing Full Text + Ovid Emcare - 2018 This link opens in a new windowOvid Nursing Full Text PLUS is a single source of both premier current journal content from Lippincott and bibliographic and abstract data from the Ovid Nursing Database and Ovid Emcare.
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Academic Search Elite This link opens in a new windowArticles from journals, magazines and other resources covering multidisciplinary topics. (Insights enabled)
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ProQuest Central This link opens in a new windowArticles from journals and newspapers covering all subject areas. Includes dissertations, working papers from OECD, company reports, and country profiles.
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Cochrane Library (Wiley) This link opens in a new windowThe Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
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Healthcare Administration Database This link opens in a new windowThis database provides reliable and relevant information on a wide range of health administration topics, including: Hospitals, Insurance, Law, Statistics, Business management, Personnel management, Ethics, Health economics, and Public health administration.
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SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new windowSAGE Journals Online contains 600+ journals covering business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine. The full text of every issue is available from Volume 1, Issue 1 to the present.
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Science DirectA comprehensive collection of research articles across various health science disciplines.
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WileyCoverage includes: Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology, Sports Medicine, Rehabilitation, Nutrition & Dietetics.
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Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database: Health & MedicineThis database focuses on health and medical periodicals covering Canada and Canadian issues on Medical Science, Nursing, Allied Health, Public Health, and Pharmacology.
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Biomedcentral (Open access)BMC is an open access platform publishing peer-reviewed journals in the areas of biomedicine.
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CDC WonderCDC Wonder is an online database managed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that provides free access to a vast collection of public health data, allowing users to query and analyze information on various health topics like mortality rates, cancer incidence, births, vaccinations, environmental exposures, and more, enabling researchers and public health professionals to study population health trends and evaluate interventions across different geographic regions and demographics
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HaPI This link opens in a new windowHealth and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) is a comprehensive database that provides detailed information about various measurement tools used in healthcare research across different disciplines like medicine, nursing, psychology, social work, and public health.
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PolicyMap This link opens in a new windowAn interactive tool that utilizes geographic data to visualize and analyze health disparities and social determinants of health across different regions.
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Health Sciences in Video This link opens in a new windowVideos provide lessons and demonstrations of skills and techniques. Interviews, documentaries, and reports explore basic principles and knowledge of health and wellness. Videos cover an array of medical fields—including anatomy, nursing, rehabilitation therapy, sports medicine & exercise science.
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Health PolicyHealth Policy from Alexander Street is focused on health issues and their impact on society.
Diet & Nutrition.
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JoVE Basic Biology This link opens in a new windowSkeletal Muscle Anatomy
Anatomy of the Intestines,
Gross Anatomy of Bone
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Academic Video Online Premium This link opens in a new windowVideos covering Health, Psychology and Sciences. Contains video content from 60 Minutes /CBS, PBS, BBC, NBC, Insight Media, etc.
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Psychotherapy.net This link opens in a new window
Psychotherapy.net is a streaming video database that offers a library of 100 training videos featuring the leading practitioners in the field of psychotherapy. Users can search for videos via a number of parameters, including by approach, by therapeutic issue, and by practitioner.
Videos from the Association of Continuing Education (ACE)