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April is National Minority Health Month- HSL Promotes “Give Your Community A Boost!”

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The Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library of the University of Cincinnati is promoting the National Institute of Health’s Minority Health Month.

2022’s theme is “Give Your Community a Boost.”

Give your Community a Boost

NIH Promotional poster of healthy looking people from various minority groups, one with a band-aid and one with a mask, and one working with an immunocompromised child to communicate the importance of receiving a booster shot for Covid-19.

For information on Covid-19 vaccines in our community, please visit:

For members of the University of Cincinnati:

https://med.uc.edu/landing-pages/university-health/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine-update

For citizens of Cincinnati, OH:

https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/health/covid-19/vaccine-information-sign-up/

For anyone: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/facts.html

For more information on how Covid-19 affects minority communities:

https://www.nimhd.nih.gov/programs/covid-19/index.html

For more information on programs related to Minority Health Month, please visit: https://www.nimhd.nih.gov/programs/edu-training/nmhm/

Please take care of yourselves and stay healthy through the Pandemic! Although numbers are currently down in the USA, the Covid-19 Pandemic is not over.

Keep track of numbers around the world here: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

 

PubMed Health: Clinical Effectiveness Research Reviews

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What is PubMed Health?  PubMed Health provides information for consumers and clinicians on prevention and treatment of diseases and conditions.  It specialized in reviews of clinical effectiveness research, with easy-to-read summaries for consumers as well as full technical reports.

What else does PubMed Health provide?

  • Systematic reviews of clinical trials showing what has been proven to work and what remains unknown
  • Summaries and full texts of selected systematic reviews in one place published or updated from 2003
  • Information for consumers and clinicians based on those reviews
  • Methods resources collection that includes documents about the best research and statistical techniques for systematic reviews and effectiveness research
  • Searches that run simultaneously in PubMed.  A filter is used to identify all the indexed scientific articles at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) that might be systematic reviews

So take a moment to search and explore PubMed Health this freely available resource!

PubMed Health is a service provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).