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Global Health

Health for all Your go-to for the study and practice of national, regional and international

“It is the norm for systematic reviewers at the LSHTM to include the database in order to be comprehensive”

Dr Bayard Roberts, The London School of Hygiene & www.cabdirect.org/globalhealth

KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE With over 3.1 million records, and growing by over 170,000 every year, Global Health is the leading specialist database dedicated to public health, completing the picture of international medical and health by providing unmatched access to all the world’s relevant public health research and practice. introducing our new customised Global Health interface

Figure 1 Our new Global Health interface key features of the new interface

Curated content: Our new Global Health homepage features a monthly focus on a key global health issue with selected news, articles and more.

News and alerts: Access regularly-updated international news when you log-in. Curated by our content specialists, with a number of topical news items written by our in-house editors - keeping you on top of public health developments from around the world.

Theme and Region pages: Browse and search focused records, book chapters, reviews and news across six key themes and 7 regions, making it easy to find the most relevant content to you.

Smart searches: Pre-defined searches, curated by our in-house content experts on key issues, themes or regions, keeping you up to date on relevant research topics at the click of a button.

Extended content: More than 3.1 million records, dedicated to public health, with full text hosted for over 100,000 articles including 375 CABI book chapters, over 160 reviews from CABI’s very own e-journal CAB Reviews and over 500 news items from 2014 - 2018. New content added each week. key facts for Global Health on all platforms

• Fully searchable bibliographic database, available on multiple platforms, including CABI’s new customised interface • Supports sustainable public health practice • Supports evidence-based practice and systematic reviews • Supports core competencies • Contains over 3.1 million scientific records from 1973 to the present day, with full text hosted for more than 100,000 articles, with around 170,000 records added each year • Grey literature from international organizations eg UN, EU and nongovernmental organizations ( NGOs) • Publications from over 100 countries in over 50 languages are abstracted; 96% of records have an English abstract, 16% are from non-English language sources and 28% are focussed on developing countries • Controlled vocabulary indexing to improve retrieval • Covers journals from major lists, including: –– BMA (British Medical Association) –– Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health (Lamar Soutter Library, Massachusetts) –– Core Public Health Journals Project (US Medical Library Association) –– World Public Health Association • Subject experts sourcing records from more than 7,300 journals, books, reports, conferences, patents, theses, electronic publications and other hard-to-find resources Data correct March 2019

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Nutrition Chronic Biological Tropical and Diagnosis & diseases Public HealthHealth promo & disease prev & and biostatistics Infectious diseases international healththerapy of disease Figure 3 Subject coverage

accessing Global Health

Global Health is available on a variety of platforms and through a variety of hosts, to ensure our content is delivered in a format that meets your needs. CAB Direct (where you can access Global Health on our award winning standard platform or through CABI’s new customised Global Health interface) Ovid EBSCO Dialog DIMDI Web of STN

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