CABI: Global Health Database

Name of Service
Global Health Database

License Agreed
Institution-wide for not-for-profit libraries, research and learning institutes in selected countries. Contact inasp@inasp.info for more details.

Service Provider
CAB International, Oxon, UK

Service Type
Current Awareness Database (includes journals, books, conference reports and handbooks).

Content in this service
Global Health is a database specialising in public health, human nutrition, parasitic, communicable and tropical diseases and medicinal plants. It provides access to abstracts of the world's research literature from 1973 to present with coverage of English and foreign language journals, books, research reports, patents and standards, dissertations, conference proceedings, annual reports, developing country information and other difficult to obtain literature. The database contains over 1,300,000 records with 70,000 records added annually. Virtually every word is searchable, allowing for easy access to this important collection of references to international human health and diseases literature.

Formats Available
Global Health is available through PERI through the internet-based CAB Direct Service. All current content from 1973 to present is included within PERI.

Subject Strengths

  • Tropical Diseases
  • Parasitic Diseases
  • Medicinal and Poisonous Plants
  • Community and Public Health
  • Human Nutrition
  • Communicable Diseases, including AIDS and HIV.

Full details are available here.

Service Strengths

  • Coverage from 1973 to the present day
  • Over 3,500 serial sources from more than 125 countries are scanned by subject specialists for relevant articles on human health
  • Global Health provides an alternative point of reference, complementary to other databases such as MEDLINE with a broad analysis of developing country information, foreign language journals, books, research reports, patents and standards dissertations, conference proceedings and annual reports
  • 40% of the records in Global health are unique to Global Health

Registration
Each institution is required to register to use CABI Global Health.  If you have not used this resource before you may need to check if your institution is registered and identify the contact person who has your access details. To do this, please go to the INASP Registration Database and select your country and institution.

Access Information
Access is by username and password only

Website for Further Information
www.cabi-publishing.org/AbstractDatabases.asp?SubjectArea=&PID=328

Contact for Help/Support
Please contact CABI Help/Customer Support staff at sales@cabi.org or fax +44 (0)1491 829198.