Policy Watch provides links to full-text documents available on the Internet. It's a work in progress, easy to use, and international in scope with a range of perspectives, alternatives and options, which meet the needs of people researching a wide variety of health issues.
Policy Watch is an excellent starting place to find appropriate, good quality, full-text information for policy development and review, strategic initiatives, business and programme planning, legislation, standards development and projects, etc. Navigator links on the right hand side of your screen go to specific topics with collections of information arranged alphabetically by title, eg. acute care provides information on hospitals, emergency health, palliative care, etc.
The PubMed button goes to the database of the US National Library of Medicine, which is searchable from your computer. Document delivery services are available for Departments of Health, including Continuing Care staff in various locations around the province, and Health Promotion and Protection staff.
The Journals button on the left of the screen takes staff of the Nova Scotia Department of Health, and Nova Scotia Department of Health Promotion and Protection to a listing of electronic journals and databases for staff use only.
The RefWorks button takes staff to RefWorks.