This online resource is updated daily. Designed especially for lay research, it covers health and lifestyle, drugs, nutrition, medicine, surgery, treatments, therapies and research. Consumer health magazines and newsletters, selected medical journals, nursing and allied health journals, pamphlets, reference books and newspaper articles are indexed. About 70 per cent of the material indexed is available in full text. This Australian database provides access to a range of social health statistics.
Users can generate their own tables, maps and graphs from lists of relevant data and variables.
Data includes hospital use, population census, medicare trends, immunisation, cancer and disability. Variables include age, sex, area, birthplace and occupation. A national database of health promotion resources, projects and programs. It provides the most comprehensive picture available of current and past health promotion activities. Abstracts of health promotion research are included.