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Health Care

About this Guide

This guide is designed to help University of Hawaiʻi - West Oʻahu students taking Health Care courses find relevant library resources.

The resources featured on this guide include: books, e-books, databases, scholarly journals, and vetted web sources. Many of these resources are RESTRICTED by license for UHWO students (Articles and Books pages), faculty and staff only. Many free and open sources are also available (Statistics and Web Sources pages)  If you are affiliated with UHWO, you can access restricted resources from your home or the library using your UH login and password.

Finding Background Information

Reference resources, like encyclopedias and dictionaries, are a great place to start your research because their articles provide a broad overview of your topic. From these resources, you can extract keywords for further searching.

The items featured here are intended to give you an idea of what is available.

General Reference Resources

Find terms, definitions, topic overviews and trending topics by consulting reference resources such as dictionaries and encyclopedias.

Trending Topics

Begin your research by browsing trending topics and reference resources available from the following database:

Tip: browse CQ Researcher topics to find reports about Health, Social Services and Disabilities and more.


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