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European Union and European Studies: Health

This guide provides an introduction to the UIUC Library's collections and services for EU and European Studies

Health Databases

CINAHL This link opens in a new window
Alternate version: CINAHL in the classic EBSCO user interface (best for exporting more than 50 results or combining saved searches). CINAHL provides indexing for close to 3000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for most of the indexed journals are also included. Full text material includes many journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
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CABI Global Health This link opens in a new window
Global in scope, coverage includes agriculture, environment, veterinary sciences, plant sciences, mycology and parasitology, food science, human health and nutrition. CAB Abstracts offers extensive coverage of journal and nonjournal literature from around the world including annual reports, general reports, books, conference proceedings, field notes and more. Over 7 million records with coverage dating back to 1973. Includes over 170,000 full-text journal articles and indexing for over 10,000 academic journals, books, conference proceedings and reports. Also available on the CABI Digital Library platform.
Web of Science (Core Collection) This link opens in a new window
Web of Science indexes core journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Provides access to over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

European & Global Resources

Eurosurveillance
Eurosurveillance is a European peer-reviewed scientific journal devoted to the epidemiology, surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases, with a focus on such topics that are of relevance to Europe. It is a weekly online journal, with 50 issues per year published on Thursdays, and features short rapid communications, longer in-depth research articles, surveillance and outbreak reports, reviews and perspective papers, as well as short news items.
Eurostats
The website for the statistical office of the EU in Luxembourg. It provides access to statistics which allow for comparisons between countries and regions in Europe.
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
ECDPC. EU agency responsible for a variety of activities including surveillance, public health training, epidemic intelligence, scientific advice, and more. Publishes the scientific journal Eurosurveillance.
OECD Health Statistics
Global health statistics from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
World Health Organization (WHO): Europe
News, publications, scientific data, health statistics and more. Also provides links to important European COVID-19 updates and resources.
Isidore
Isidore contains more than 7 million Social Science and Health documents from all over the world!

Journals

France

LiSSa - Littérature Scientifique en Santé
Search engine referencing 1,318,293 scientific articles in French in the field of Health.
French Government Health Strategy 2018-2022
French Statistics Resources
National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies, National Institute for Demographic Studies, and more.
French Institute of Health and Medical Research
World Health Organization: France
Wikipedia: Covid-19 in France

Spain

Portugal