Library: HSC220: Spanish Communication for the Health Care Professions: Health Care Spanish

Research Databases that contain health care content in Spanish

Interface translates to Spanish
Has content in Spanish

Look around the database's landing page for an option to change the interface language. It is usually towards the top.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window Comprehensive coverage of all areas of nursing and allied health with access to more than 770 journals and 275 ebooks.
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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Specialized reference eBooks for background information on all subjects, including audio, video, and image results.
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Ebook Central (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window eBooks on a range of subjects such as business, information technology, education, engineering, health, history, humanities, life & physical sciences, and social and behavioral sciences.
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eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary eBooks representing a broad range of subjects.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Uses the popular Google search engine to search for scholarly sources. Accessing Google Scholar from within the Library will directly link you to items we subscribe to.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window Provides access to nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines as well as the Lexi-PALS Drug Guide.
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OneSearch: Search most of our databases at once This link opens in a new window
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Ovid: Full Text Nursing & Allied Health Journals and eBooks This link opens in a new window Search across a targeted collection of full text journals and eBooks selected by Excelsior faculty that cover the nursing and allied health fields. You can also use the OVID Emcare database to browse citations of articles.
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ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window Search ALL ProQuest databases at once. Covering more than 160 subject areas, ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database and contains a diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos. Encompasses business, science & technology, health, social sciences, arts & humanities, and news.
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Look for a language limiter in these database to limit to articles, eBooks, etc. that are written in Spanish.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window Comprehensive coverage of all areas of nursing and allied health with access to more than 770 journals and 275 ebooks.
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Ebook Central (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window eBooks on a range of subjects such as business, information technology, education, engineering, health, history, humanities, life & physical sciences, and social and behavioral sciences.
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eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary eBooks representing a broad range of subjects.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Uses the popular Google search engine to search for scholarly sources. Accessing Google Scholar from within the Library will directly link you to items we subscribe to.
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OneSearch: Search most of our databases at once This link opens in a new window
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ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window Search ALL ProQuest databases at once. Covering more than 160 subject areas, ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database and contains a diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos. Encompasses business, science & technology, health, social sciences, arts & humanities, and news.
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The databases below include a built-in translation tool to translate native-English language content.

Britannica Academic This link opens in a new window The largest, most authoritative encyclopedia in the world, this database contains articles, maps, images, videos, and yearbooks from 1993 to present. Use it instead of Wikipedia for your research!
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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Specialized reference eBooks for background information on all subjects, including audio, video, and image results.
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OneSearch

Find articles, eBooks, etc.

Using Google Scholar: Finding Peer Reviewed Resources (Transcript)

Selected Resources

Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health Peer reviewed journal by experts in the fields of public health, epidemiology, medicine and nursing, anthropology, sociology, population research, immigration law, and ethics. (full text from 2/7/2008 to 1 year ago)
Cultura de los Cuidados Peer reviewed journal "orientada a contribuir al desarrollo del conocimiento histórico, antropológico, fenomenológico y teórico en cuidados enfermeros" (full text from 3/1/2006 to present).

How to use this guide

This guide is for English speakers learning Spanish / Esta guía es para angloparlantes, si eres hispanohablante, visita la guía Usando la Biblioteca en Español.

Selected Websites

Medline Plus (Español) De la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina y los Institutos Nacionales de Salud (NIH), este sitio contiene información sobre la salud del consumidor en español.
Medical Spanish for Health Care Professionals Provides self-teaching information, multimedia, flash cards, sample audio interviews etc. for learners of medical- and health-related Spanish.
Medical Spanish for Healthcare Providers Teaches medical Spanish including vocabulary, history, and everyday speech. With translation and audio, the site strives to improve both fluency and cultural competency.
Science.gov Searches over 55 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 13 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information. Users interested in translating Science.gov from English to Spanish or other languages, may click and view the translation instructions at Science.gov
Loecsen: English to Spanish Hear common phrases spoken aloud
Google Translate Free service that instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages. / Servicio gratuito que traduce instantáneamente palabras, frases y páginas web entre inglés y más de 100 idiomas más.

Online Dictionaries

Spanish Medical Dictionary
Click a letter to see English-to-Spanish translations (formal & popular).
Medical Spanish Dictionary
English-to-Spanish and Spanish-to-English translations and definitions.
Reverso Online Dictionary
English-to-Spanish or Spanish-to-English