Looking online for health information can be frustrating. It’s hard to tell if you can trust the advice you find, and some websites obscure their information with pop-up ads and other distractions. Though we all want to stay healthy, few among us have the time or budget to subscribe to multiple medical journals.
The Health & Wellness Information Center, available through NC LIVE, offers videos, eBooks, journal articles, and links to reliable local health and wellness resources. Through this portal, patrons can:
- find a local doctor or research health issues unique to North Carolinians via NC Health Info, a UNC Health Sciences Library Service,
- access in-depth, peer-reviewed scholarly articles via EBSCO Host,
- stream videos from NOVA, Frontline, and others via NC LIVE’s video collection,
- browse health and wellness subjects on Healthfinder.gov, a federal government website managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
- and more!
To access the Health & Wellness Information Center, go to www.chathamlibraries.org and click on the “Online Resources” link. Scroll down, and click the big blue “Health & Wellness Information Center” button. (You can also go directly to www.nclive.org and click on the “Health & Wellness” heading.) Many of these resources are provided by NC LIVE, so you will be asked to sign in using your library card number. Once you are signed in, you can browse to your heart’s content, or research medical terms for the contents of your heart!
Note: The prominently displayed “Search NC LIVE Health and Wellness Resources” field searches the EBSCO databases only. To see all the resources the portal offers at a glance, click the italicized link on the homepage that says “See all Health & Wellness Resources”.
