Native Hawaiian Health and Indigenous Knowledge Resources

Foundational Native Hawaiian Health Needs Report

2019 update to the 1985 E Ola Mau Report

from Papa Ola Lōkahi

Kanaka Maoli activism in the early 1980s resulted in the 1988 U.S. Congress Native Hawaiian Health Initiative which began to address these health needs. Special interest, therefore, is currently directed at trends as Kanaka Maoli health statistics for the 1990s are revealed. (Indigenous Hawaiian) Health by Kekuni Blaisdell, MD

Information and links to health information from MedlinePlus

Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the MEDLINE database is widely recognized as the premier source for citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. University of Hawaii login required.

This ProQuest database indexes about 1,520 journals and includes article full-text for more than 780, many with graphics (full-text available to UH Manoa campus users only). Includes information on 60,000+ companies.
Business aspects of health, search strategy: hawaiian* AND (health OR medicine OR medical)

Provides full text for 3,288 scholarly publications covering multiple academic areas of study. Search strategy: hawaiian* AND (health OR medic*)

An index to magazines and journals published in or about Hawaii and the Pacific.
Search strategy: hawaiian? and subject of interest

PsycINFO provides citations and abstracts of international journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines.
Search strategy: search simultaneously by changing subject area to "social sciences"; search hawaiian*[keywords] and (health or medic*) [keywords]

Science Direct from Elsevier is an internet resource for scientific, technical and medical information. Using Science Direct you can access over 1,800 peer reviewed academic journals, search over 30 million abstracts from scientific articles and link out to articles from over 80 other publishers. Search strategy: hawaiian* and (health or medic*)

A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the sciences (Science Citation Index Expanded) as well as both the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Approximately 70% of the records have author abstracts. Online coverage from 1980 to present.
Search strategy: hawaiian* AND (health OR medic*)