Health
Climate change is affecting human health in many ways. Things like smog, heat waves, droughts, disease spread, food and water insecurity, malnutrition, and population displacements are all taking a toll.
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American Medical Association - Climate ChangeA selection of AMA writings on climate change and its effects on public health
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Global Health Information NetworkScientists, practitioners, and policy makers focused on improving capacity to protect populations from the avoidable health risks of extreme heat in our changing climate
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World Health Organization - Climate ChangeWHO’s work plan on climate change and health includes: advocacy & partnerships, monitoring science and evidence, supporting countries to protect human health from climate change, and building capacity on climate change and human health.
Articles
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Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete provides both popular and scholarly journal coverage and video clips for nearly all academic areas of study including: social sciences, humanities, education, technology, engineering, physics, chemistry, language & linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences and ethnic studies. Academic Search Complete is a great starting point for most general research.
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CINAHL Complete
CINAHL is the go-to journal article database for Nursing & Health Sciences students. It covers nursing, allied health, biomedical and consumer health journals, publications of the American Nursing Association, and the National League for Nursing. Use the subject headings and limiters to refine searches and access full-text nursing and clinical journals.
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Health Source: Consumer Edition
Health Source: Consumer Edition is a collection of information on many health topics including medicine, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. Content includes full-text consumer health magazines, newsletters and pamphlets, reference books, as well as peer-reviewed academic journals.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides researchers, allied health professionals, nurses and medical educators with access to full-text, scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It provides indexing, abstracts, and full-text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals, many of which are peer-reviewed.
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Science Direct
Science Direct provides indexing and full-text journal articles in the sciences and social sciences, including chemistry, medicine, computer science, earth science, economics, business, engineering, energy, environmental science, life science, materials science, mathematics, physics, and astronomy. This is a good source for scholarly research in those subjects.