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Global Health public health without borders Global Health gives researchers and students unparalleled access to all the world’s relevant public health research and practice – providing knowledge without borders
www.cabi.org/globalhealth KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE
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Global Health is the only specialist bibliographic, abstracting and indexing database dedicated to public health, completing the picture of international medical and health research by capturing key literature that is not covered by other databases. Global Health was created to ensure that key literature from all sources can be brought quickly and easily to the attention of those working in the field. key features
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• Global reach: captures international literature not covered by other databases, providing users with a truly global perspective.
• Fully searchable bibliographic database, available on multiple platforms.
• Unique: 58% of the journals contained in Global Health are unique to the database. • Specially selected: literature is selected by subject specialists. Only relevant papers are included, and content is directed by an international editorial advisory board. • Comprehensive: the database covers all aspects of public health at both international and community level, as well as a wealth of material from other biomedical and life science fields. • Fulltext: Global Health provides selected full-text content of journals, reports and conferences from hard-to-find sources.
Global Health
3,684 12
Embase 458
Medline
1,878
314
3,031
2,251
Figure 1 showing unique journal coverage compared to EMBASE and MEDLINE
• Contains over 1.8 million scientific records from 1973 to the present day. • Over 160,000 records added each year. • Information is sourced from more than 6,000 serials, books, book chapters, reports, conference proceedings, patents, theses, electronic publications and other hard-to-find resources. Over 3,600 of the journals are unique to Global Health. • Covers journals from major lists, including: – BMA (British Medical Association) – Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health (Lamar Soutter Library, Massachusetts) – Core Public Health Journals Project (US Medical Library Association) – World Public Health Association • Supports evidence-based practice and core competency development. • Publications from over 100 countries in 50 languages are abstracted; 97% of records have an English abstract and 14% are from non-English language sources. • Controlled vocabulary indexing to improve retrieval.
All data correct January 2012
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coverage Public health Community health
Nutrition Public health nutrition
Social medicine and behaviour
Clinical nutrition
Rural health
Nutritional physiology and biochemistry
Refugee, migrant and indigenous health Geriatric health Maternal and child health
Medical entomology
Women’s health
Fungal and parasitic diseases
Sexual and reproductive health
Zoonotic disease and veterinary public health
Implementation and practice
Nosocomial diseases
Evidence-based medicine Health promotion Disseminating health messages Community health programmes Disease prevention Tropical and international health Tropical medicine Traditional medicine Travel medicine
Diagnosis and therapy of disease Infectious, parasitic and chronic diseases Nutritional therapy and phytotherapy Health systems Health economics Health policy and planning Health services Chronic diseases Epidemiology of cancer, heart disease and other chronic diseases.
Tropical public health International health
Risk factors for chronic diseases.
Public health emergencies Bioterrorism
Diet influences on chronic diseases. Prevention of chronic disease
Disasters Epidemiology and biostatistics Epidemiology Biostatistics Environmental and occupational health Environmental health Food safety and hygiene
Infectious diseases and parasitology Bacterial and viral diseases
Management of chronic disease in resource poor settings Screening programmes Biomedical life sciences Medical microbiology Pharmacology and toxicology Food science
Sanitation and water supply Occupational health
“Global Health is a great resource that complements MEDLINE and brings a needed international perspective.” Matt Wilcox, Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, USA
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accessing Global Health Global Health is available on a variety of platforms and through a variety of hosts, to ensure our content is delivered in a format that meets your needs.
CAB Direct (CABI’s own platform) Ovid EBSCO Dialog DIMDI Web of Knowledge STN
to find out more Sign up for a free institutional trial today, contact us at: sales@cabi.org sales Outside North America CABI Nosworthy Way, Wallingford Oxfordshire, OX10 8DE, UK T: +44 (0) 1491 829313 F: +44 (0) 1491 829198 E: sales@cabi.org In North America CABI 875 Massachusetts Avenue, 7th Floor Cambridge, MA 02139, USA T: +1 617 3954051 E: sales@cabi.org
contact CABI, Nosworthy Way, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 8DE, UK. T: +44 (0)1491 829313, F: +44 (0)1491 829198
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