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Organizing the world...one topic at a time

 

 

Created to meet the educational and research needs of your patrons—as well as vocational students preparing for careers in health care—Current Issues: Health focuses on a wide range of health issues with articles selected by H.W. Wilson editors to offer a thorough and balanced overview.

Consumers can turn to Current Issues: Health for information to enrich their understanding of issues at the leading edge of health and medicine.

Sample Topics

  This is a practical resource for public, school, and college libraries.
  • The database currently has approximately 90 Issues with more than 425 Topics.

  • Includes as many as 10 full text articles per Topic, hand-picked by Wilson editors to ensure thorough, unbiased coverage (See Sample Article).

  • Features a wide range of leading sources, from an abundance of peer-reviewed journals to popular newsstand magazines.

  • 100% full text.

  • Links to primary sources and helpful web sites enhance topic coverage.

  • PDF page images deliver all illustrations, charts, graphs, and other graphical content essential to research.

  • Links to automated WilsonWeb searches expand on and update each topic.

Recent Enhancements

  • New Topic Finder box allows you to "free search" the entire database for any subject of interest. Find information on a myriad of people and subjects related to the main topics covered by the database.

  • New Previous/Next buttons on search screens allow easy movement between pages of topics.

  • New plain-text topics list on the left of the Advanced Search screen invites easy scanning for topics of interest.

  • More full text articles, More citations, and Search the Web links now appear with each Topic's list. Explore coverage of the Topic from any of approximately 4,000 magazines and journals.

  • Print, email, or save multiple articles at a click. Use checkboxes to select groups of articles to handle on the Print Email Save page.

Issues                     See: Complete list of Issues/Topics

  1. Adolescent Health

  2. Aging in America

  3. Alcohol Abuse

  4. Allergies

  5. Alzheimer’s Disease

  6. Antidepressants

  7. Arthritis

  8. Asthma

  9. Autism

  10. Becoming a Physician

  11. Biomedical Engineering

  12. Bioterrorism

  13. Birth Defects

  14. Body Image

  15. Brain Diseases

  16. Breast Care and Mammography

  17. Cancer in Women

  18. Cancer in Men

  19. Cloning

  20. Chiropractic Medicine

  21. The Common Cold

  22. Complementary and Alternative Medicine

  23. Cosmetic Surgery

  24. The Cost of Health Care

  25. The Debate over Universal Health Care

  26. Depression

  27. Diabetes

  28. Diet Trends

  29. Doping in Sports

  30. Down Syndrome

  31. Drugs in America

  32. Drug Market

  33. Drug Addiction and Treatment

  34. Eating Disorders

  35. Elder Care

  36. Emergency Medicine

  37. Euthanasia

  38. Eye Care

  39. Food Safety

  40. Food and Drug Administration

  41. Gastrointestinal Health

  42. Genetic Engineering

  43. Global Epidemics

  44. Health Care in Sub-Saharan Africa

  45. Health Care Reform

  46. Heart Disease

  47. HIV-AIDS

  48. Hospice and Palliative Care

  49. Human Reproduction

  50. The Immune System

  51. Insect-Borne Diseases

  52. Issues in Mental Health

  53. Joint Replacement

  54. Kidney Disease

  55. Legalization of Drugs

  56. Liver Disease

  57. Lung Cancer

  58. Lyme Disease

  59. Medicare and Medicaid

  60. Midwifery

  61. The Nervous System

  62. The Nursing Profession

  63. Obesity

  64. Occupational Hazards

  65. Organ Transplantation

  66. Osteoporosis

  67. Pediatric Care

  68. Personality Disorders

  69. The Pharmaceutical Industry

  70. Physical Fitness Trends

  71. Pollution and Your Health

  72. Respiratory Diseases

  73. Schizophrenia

  74. Smoking

  75. Sports Medicine

  76. STDs

  77. Stem Cell Research

  78. Stress Disorders

  79. Transgenic Medicine

  80. Travel and Health

  81. Tropical Diseases

  82. Tuberculosis

  83. Uninsured Americans

  84. Vaccination and Immunization

  85. Women’s Health

  86. The World Health Organization


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"The beauty of Current Issues: Health lies in the care with which the assortment of documents was put together. It is equally well suited for someone hoping to find information on how to learn more about a health problem, including how to deal with it, as it is for someone examining a health-related issue from a research or personal perspective... That this resource can serve as a starting point for more in-depth research via WilsonWeb or the internet only increases its overall value."
—netConnect

"This substantial file will be usable, and used, by a wide range of researchers successfully... I give it a 10. ...Addresses a whole new world of health-related topics in a dynamic, accessible way. Enthusiastically recommended for all libraries."
—Library Journal

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