Health and Wellness Resource Center
What Is the Health and Wellness Resource Center?
This database is an in-depth, user-friendly resource that provides access to health and wellness information from authoritative medical sources.
It is designed to be a one-stop resource for health research and includes information from magazines, pamphlets, journals, and Web sites.
There are 879 indexed sources, of which 662 are full text. You can access the Health and Wellness Resource by
clicking here .
Who would be interested in using this database?
- Consumers who have questions about their health.
- College students/Medical students researching a paper.
- Health professionals who need more information on a wellness or health issue.
What are the different areas of the database that you can search?
- Use the 'Help' button at the top of the page for searching tips and strategies.
- Use the Quick Start buttons located on the home page and along the tool bar at the top of each page.
| Quick Start Button |
Type of Information |
Possible Questions |
| Medical Encyclopedia |
- Searchable alphabetical list of diseases and conditions from Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine .
- Definition, description, causes/symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, key terms and other sources of information. |
What is amnesia?
How do people catch malaria? |
| Drug Finder |
- Allows you to find information on a specific drug. |
What is Lipitor ? And why would someone take it? What does it look like? |
| Health Organization Directory |
- Allows you to search the Medical Health Information Directory . |
What cancer resources are available in Austin, Texas? |
| Medical Dictionary |
- Use Mosby's Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary to find medical and health terms. |
What is melanoma? |
| Health News |
- Browse latest newspaper articles from around the world. |
Health news from San Francisco Chronicle ? |
| Health Assessment Tools |
- Web resources to improve your health. |
Web sites about cancer, weight loss other health issues. |
| Links to Other Sites |
- More health-related Web resources. |
Alphabetical list of online health sites. |
Here is a sample search:
Say you want to find articles on Parkinson's disease from 2005.
You can search for "Parkinson's" and limit the date range for information from January 2005 to December 2005.
For more general information on this disease, you can go to the Multimedia
Library option and select the listing for Parkinson's disease.
This page was revised by Kyla Kothman in Spring 2007.
This page was revised by Amelia Brunskill in Spring 2006.
INF 382S: Library Instruction and Information Literacy, taught by Dr. Loriene Roy
School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin |
