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HAPI Online: Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Provides citations to worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Coverage is 1970 to the present and includes articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 social science and humanities journals.
HAPI: Health and Psychosocial Instruments
Haz-Map
Occupational health and toxicology database designed to link jobs and hazardous job-related tasks to exposure to chemicals and occupational diseases and their symptoms.
HazDat
Information on the release of hazardous substances from Superfund sites and emergency events and on the effects of hazardous substances on the health of human populations.
HCUP: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Databases
State, regional and national level discharge data, available for purchase. Includes State Inpatient Databases (SID), State Ambulatory Surgery Databases (SASD), State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD), Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), and Kids' Inpatient Database (KID). Free tools include AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs), Clinical Classifications Software (CCS), Comorbidity Software, and HCUPnet, a web interface to free HCUP data.
HCUPnet
Free tool for identifying, tracking and analyzing national hospital statistics from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP).
Health Source. Consumer Edition
Health Source. Nursing/Academic Edition.
Healthy Community Design and Access to Healthy Food Legislation Database
Search for state-level bills related to nutrition and physical activity topics.
Healthy People DATA
Healthy Youth Survey
Hein online
Legal journals and federal documents.
HerbMed
Evidence-based herbal database.
Herbs and Supplements: MedlinePlus
Information on herbs and supplements is available through MedlinePlus.
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Hospital Compare
Public release of data collected under the Hospital Quality Initiative. Lists results of quality measures by hospital, on care for heart attack, congestive heart failure and pneumonia. Searchable by city, state, zip code or hospital name. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Household Products Database
NLM database of potential health effects of common household products.
HSDB (Hazardous Substances Data Bank)
Comprehensive, peer-reviewed toxicology data for about 5,000 chemicals.
HSRProj - Health Services Research Projects in Progress
Information about ongoing health services research and public health projects, from National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR)
HSRR - Health Services & Sciences Research Resources
Database of information about datasets and instruments/indices useful in health services, behavioral and social sciences, and public health systems research.
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