LibGuides: Transcultural Nursing: Online Resources

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The ABC Clinical Guide to Herbs
The American Botanical Council's guide on herbal medicine.
CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CIA The World Factbook
The U.S. government's complete geographical handbook. Each country profile tracks demographics such as population, ethnicity and literacy rates, as well as political, geographical and economic data.
EthnoMed
Index to Chiropractic Literature
Indexed by members of the Chiropractic Library Collaboration, the primary goal of the Index to Chiropractic Literature is to provide indexing of the peer-reviewed literature produced by chiropractic publishers.
MedlinePlus: Complementary and Integrative Medicine
MedlinePlus Health Information
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
Transcultural Nursing Society
An international group of nurses (and other healthcare professionals) working together to meet the society's mission statement: "To ensure that the culture care needs of people around the world will be met by nurses prepared in transcultural nursing."
World Health Organization: Traditional and Complementary Medicine
The World Health Organization's information portal for traditional and complementary medicine.

CIA: The World Factbook
Political, geographic, economic, and sociological summaries organized by country.

Credo Reference
A digital database of greater than 1,000 full text, high-quality reference books. A great place to start.

Economist Country Reports
Recent news articles, country profiles, forecasts, fact sheets, and economic data.
World Bank
Background information and up to date reports on all countries in the world. Data on health as well as education and other social and economic conditions.

WHO | WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)
The WHOSIS is an interactive health statistics database containing information from 193 World Health Organization member countries.
World Bank: Data by Country