Consumer Health Complete
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"Consumer Health Complete is the single-most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support the information needs of patients, and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full-text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. CHC offers a unique search interface designed to call attention to the full text content available from many important source-types, and to provide an intuitive means for searching this specific information." -- EBSCOhost Website
Database Features
• Full text for more than 250 health reference books and encyclopedias
• Thousands of full-text evidence-based, health reports
• Hundreds of medical images and diagrams
• Over 750 physician-generated videos on women's health, general health and men's health
• More than 2,350 Health Daily videos from NBC Digital Health Network
• More than 450 full-text consumer health pamphlets and leaflets
Search Operators
• Connectors: AND, OR, NOT
• Wildcards: ? = one or more unknown characters (e.g. wom?n)
• Truncation: * = place at the end of a root word (e.g. comput*)
• Proximity: <search term> N# <search term> = search terms must be specified number (#) or fewer words apart
Database Access
• Consumer Health Complete
EBSCOhost Basic Search Tutorial
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Demonstrates how to use the Basic Search interface in EBSCOhost's databases.
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| Introduction to Databases |
Explains why you should use databases when conducting academic research.
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