Public Health (Yale-NUS College): Welcome

MedlinePlus is a free searchable database on consumer health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine. Presented in plain language, MedlinePlus has authoritative, up to date and extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 740 diseases and conditions. It is updated daily.

It consists of 7 databases: Cochrane database of systematic reviews (CDSR); Database of abstracts of reviews of effectiveness (DARE); Cochrane central register of controlled trials (CENTRAL); Cochrane database of methodology reviews; Cochrane methodology register; Health technology assessment database (HTA); and NHS Economic evaluation database (NHS EED).
Only the CDSR which consists of systematic reviews has full-text links. For information on effectiveness of healthcare interventions, it is advisable to search in The Cochrane Library before searching in PubMed.

Collection of 9 databases. Click on "Advanced search" to limit to selected databases depending on your topic. Includes databases on AIDS & cancer Research, Health and Safety Science,Toxline,Physical Education, Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress( PILOTS) as well as theses / conference papers on health and medicine.

The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) contains information on international and governmental bodies (U.K. European and Canadian) relating to workplace health and safety. Our subscription to the Web Academic Support Programme (ASP) provides NUS staff and students access to ASP's Web collections including Materials Safety Datasheets and the OSH References Collection of bibliographic databases.You can search the individual collections or across the collections.

A database for nursing studies, allied health, biomedicine, and healthcare. It includes bibliographic records and selected full-text articles from public health journals, books, dissertations, pamphlets,etc.