Greener, Better: Health Info @ Your Library

Thinking about taking "green" to a personal level and making changes in diet and exercise? Want to know more about how to do it and maximize the health benefits? The Charleston County Public Library provides library users with access to top-of-the-line health information through the CCPL Electronic Resource Databases. These databases are also available at home, paper-free, via the internet and provide different selections of information to meet the varying needs of library users. This is the real deal, so don't rely on questionable sources like Google and Wikipedia, let CCPL provide you with access to the best information available!

(Click here for database access information.)
(CLICK HERE to go to the Health and Medicine Databases)

Here are descriptions of a few of the databases:

Hands on Health provides health information specifically for South Carolinians.

The Health and Wellness Center provides health reference information for the general user about diseases and conditions, alternative medicine, and other health topics, and includes a dictionary and a directory of high quality health websites.

The Health Reference Center Academic database allows you to take charge of your health by accessing information from the same academic research sources used by medical providers like Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), The Lancet, and others.

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