South Sioux City

Health Information

Databases Available to Nebraskans

• Consumer Health Complete
• MasterFILE Complete

Websites Selected by Librarians

• Health Insurance Marketplace
• Children's Health
• Mental Health
• Medicare Information

General / Comprehensive Health Resources

• Consumer Health Information Resource Service (CHIRS) information on the CHIRS service to Nebraskans and links to health sites on the Internet
• Health Insurance Information - NebraskAccess information for Medicare, Medicaid, Nebraska Comprehensive Insurance Pool, prescriptions
• Health Services Technology Assessment Texts (HSTAT) HSTAT is a free, electronic resource that provides access to the full-text of documents useful in health care decision making - from the National Library of Medicine
• Healthfinder consumer health information from the U.S. Government
• InterLinc: Community Health Services Overview services &programs in this directory primarily serve Southeastern Nebraska
• Kaiser Family Foundation, Health Policy, Media Resources, and Public Health Education
• Medical Matrix links that are ranked, peer reviewed - arranged by specialty, disease - asks user to set up an account, but no fees are involved
• MEDLINE Plus
• Merck Manual
• National Health Information Center a health information referral service
• National Institutes of Health
• National Library of Medicine Includes free MEDLINE searching
• Nebraska Resource and Referral System Database (NRRS) contains information about thousands of community agencies and organizations that provide services and telephone hotline resources to Nebraskans including a zip code searchable listing of licensed child care providers
• PubMed more than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites
• State Health Facts Online
• Visiting Nursing Association - Omaha, Council Bluffs a complete line of in-home services delivered by qualified professionals from an organization that is locally owned and supported and is backed by over a century of experience delivering in-home care