The Circumpolar Health Bibliographic Database (CHBD) is a free
electronic database
A bibliographic database is a database of bibliographic records, an organized digital collection of references to published literature, including journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, reports, government and legal publications, p ...
of abstracts, citations, geographic and subject indexing, library codes and their links to full text publications, both peer-reviewed and gray literature.
Established in 2007, it contains more than sixty five hundred records that describe human health in the
circumpolar region. The CHBD is a circumpolar
chronic disease prevention
Preventive healthcare, or prophylaxis, consists of measures taken for the purposes of disease prevention.Hugh R. Leavell and E. Gurney Clark as "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical and mental hea ...
project of the
Canadian Institutes of Health Research. It is maintained by the
University of Calgary in
Calgary
Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...
,
Alberta, Canada.
The CHBD was initially constructed with records from the
Arctic Institute of North America's database. These were mainly
northern Canadian records. It is expected to take several years to add non-Canadian records to the CHBD.
The Circumpolar Health Observatory, proposed in May 2008 in Norway, would disseminate its data through the CHBD.
Funding for the database increased by 50% for the period of 2008-2009.
See also
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International Journal of Circumpolar Health
The ''International Journal of Circumpolar Health'' is a peer-reviewed healthcare journal covering issues related to the health of indigenous peoples in Arctic and Antarctic environments. It is published by the International Association of Circumpo ...
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List of academic databases and search engines
This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and ...
References
External links
Official website{{University of Calgary
Arctic research
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Internet properties established in 2007
University of Calgary
Medical databases
Databases in Canada