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 topics with articles selected by H.W. Wilson editors to offer a
thorough and balanced overview.
From eating disorders to food safety, from alternative
medicine to cloning, from euthanasia to travel and health, here's where
consumers can turn 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 has 80 topics, with an
additional 20 to be added each year.
Some 30 full text articles
per topic, hand-picked by Wilson editors to ensure thorough, unbiased
coverage
Features a
wide range of leading sources, from an abundance of peer-reviewed journals
to popular newsstand magazines
100% full text database
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
NewTopic 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.
NewPrevious/Next buttons on search screens allow easy movement
between pages of topics.
New
plain-text topics list on the right of the Advanced Search screen
invites easy scanning for topics of interest.
Easier navigation between topics and subtopics, with new
"+" prompts for opening individual subtopics, and Open All
Subtopics and Return to Main Topic Page links.
More articles with full
text, More article citations, and Search the Web links now
appear with each subtopic's main article list. Click to explore coverage
of the subtopic from any of more than 3,600 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.
"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
