SALUS is a website of the SA Health Libraries. A range of electronic information resources is available through the website to support staff in organisational and clinical decision making, delivery of services to clients and service innovation. The website is for all staff of SA Health.
SALUS provides access to a range of citation and reference databases such as the Cochrane Library, Medline, CINAHL and AustHealth, on-line full text medical journals, clinical text books, together with links to other resources and websites.
SALUS aims to give SA Health staff, regardless of location, equal access to a wide range of evaluated and current information resources.
About the name SALUS:
Salus ("salvation") is the personified Roman goddess of health and prosperity, both of the individual and the state. As Salus Publica Populi Romani ("goddess of the public welfare of the Roman people") she had a temple on the Quirinal, inaugurated in 302 BCE (Livius X, 1, 9). Later she became more a protector of personal health. Around 180 BCE sacrificial rites in honor of Apollo, Aesculapius, and Salus took place there (Livius XL, 19). Her attribute was a snake or a bowl and her festival was celebrated on March 30. Salus is identified with the Greek Hygieia.
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