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Subject: Ethics (Customized for Pandemics)
Description: Developed and peer-reviewed by Research Information Specialists at Canada's Drug Agency.
Databases: MEDLINE (Ovid); LitCovid (NIH-NLM); PubMed
Subject: Ethics; Legal and Social Issues
Description: Developed by Canada's Drug Agency, extensively tested and used in their projects.
Databases: CINAHL (EBSCO); MEDLINE (Ovid); PsycInfo (Ovid); PubMed; Scopus
Subject: Child Health; Health Services Accessibility; Indigenous Health; Maternal Health; Preventative Health; Rural and Remote Health
Description: Developed by the Primary Health Care Research and Information Service and Flinders Filters. Aims to be specific rather than comprehensive.
Database: PubMed
Subjects: Community Health Care; Maternal and Infant Health; Public and Population Health
Description: Developed by the International Foundation for Integrated Care.
Database: PubMed
Subject: Bioethics; Health Literacy; Population Health
Description: Shared strategies by the US National Library of Medicine.
Database: PubMed
Subject: Patient Issues
Description: Developed by the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network, part of Healthcare Improvement Scotland.
Database: MEDLINE (Ovid)
Subjects: Air Pollution; Climate Change; Domestic Violence; Educational Attainment; Faith and Religion; Food Security; Governance and Policy; Living Arrangement; Marital Status; Noise Pollution; Poverty; Transportation Deficit; Water - Ocean Pollution; Visual Pollution
Description: Developed by the Health Sciences Library.
Databases: CINAHL (EBSCO); Cochrane (Wiley); Embase (Ovid); Global Health (Ovid); MEDLINE (Ovid); PubMed; Scopus; Web of Science
This page was last updated on 5 April 2026.