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Finding Health Data

This library guide contains resources on health data and statistics

Consumer and General Public Medical Information

Medical Information for the consumer and general public is written for patients and their families.  You can find out about symptoms, diagnoses, and causes of a disease or condition as well as the current practices or interventions for treating or curing the disease or condition. 

The National Institute of Health defines a health consumer as follows: 

"A health consumer is anyone who has used, currently uses, or will use health care services. It also includes their family and caregivers. The term may be used to replace the term “patient” to represent the person’s more active role in making healthcare and medical decisions with their clinicians." (National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) Toolkit for Patient Focused-Therapy

 

The resources below are geared towards the public, and are written to be accessible by patients and their families. 

The McGraw Hill Access medical collections that you have access to through Baylor includes AccessMedicine, AccessPediatrics, AccessObGyn, and AccessPhysiotherapy. The collections include numerous digital text books for reference, multimedia modules and lectures, as well as medical images and videos to use for lectures and other projects. Access also provides study tools and clinical resources like review questions and quick reference guides. These are excellent resources when you are working to build up your skills in your particular area of medical study, or when you want to learn about a medical discipline that you are unfamiliar with. 

 

 

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