Take charge of your health with help from your public library. Research health information from trusted sources and participate in library-led health and wellness programs.
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As our Health and Wellness Services Specialist, Claire Ong helps you find the health and wellness resources you need. She also collaborates closely with librarians curating the health and wellness collection, develops related programming, and cultivates community partnerships based on healthy living.
Online health & wellness resources
Your Oak Park library card gives you access to subscription-based resources that Google can’t offer.
- Alt HealthWatch: Full-text alternative health research database focused on complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
- Consumer Health Complete: Content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary and holistic medicine.
- Health Source: Consumer Edition: Full-text database covering a wide variety of medical subjects, including information on specific diseases as well as overall health topics, plus current health pamphlets and Merriam-Webster’s Medical Desk Dictionary.
- Medline: Abstracts of articles in medicine, dentistry, and nursing (not full text).