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Books

The Library uses the Library of Congress shelving arrangement.

Select areas:
R: Medicine, General
RA: Public Aspects of Medicine
RC: Internal Medicine, Diseases
HV: Social Pathology, Social and Public Welfare

Basic Reference Sources

Location

Encyclopedia of Biodiversity Electronic and REF QH541.15.B56 E53 2001
Encyclopedia of Cancer Electronic Only
Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management REF RA393 R 48 1988
Health in the Americas REF RA 407.5 .L3 P18 2002
Health Care Policy and Politics A to Z REF RA 395 .A3 R685 2000
Health Care State Rankings REF RA 407.3 .H423 2004
Plunkett's Health Care Industry REF 410.53 P58

Find Articles and Other Materials

Select PC Indexes and Databases

ABI/Inform Global 1966+
ABI/Inform is a premier index of business information, including management literature and articles concerned with medical public policy issues
Lexis-Nexis Academic-Medical In addition to another avenue to the National Library of Medicine's Medline, Lexis-Nexis Academic provides 20 full text leading health
journals and access to many specialized medical newsletters
PAIS International Contains articles, reports and other documents that deal with public affairs, including medical policy planning 

General

Readers' Guide Abstracts 1983+ and
Readers' Guide Retrospective
Listings for reactions to performances in popular magazines. Also provides contemporary reviews and interviews of performances

Historical New York TimesProvides contemporary reviews and interviews of performances

Academic Search Premier Indexes and links to actual articles in major scholarly journals including those concerned with medical policy and related disciplines

Key Journals

American Journal of Public Health Print/Online
Harvard Business ReviewPrint
Health Affairs Print/Online
Health Care Management Review Print and Selected Articles Online
Health Forum Selected Articles Online
International Journal of Health ServicesPrint/Online
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical AssociationPrint/Online
Journal of Healthcare ManagementOnline
Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law Print/Online
MMWR: Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report Print/Online
Modern HealthcarePrint/Online
Milbank QuarterlyPrint/Online

Select Websites

Academic Sites

Duke Health Policy Gateway Duke University Health Policy Cyberexchage

Associations

American Health Planning Association American Medical Association
AHA American Hospital Association American Public Health Association

Government Sites

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Rhode Island Department of Health
Entrez; the New Life Sciences Search Engine Searches across the literature databases and the journals containing over 4,300 link-outs to full-text web sites as of July 2004
NCBI Literature Databases Enables searching PubMed (MEDLINE), Bookshelf of Online Biomedical books, PubMed Central, a free database of full-text journal links, and OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man)

Other Sites

Commonwealth Fund
Henry J. Kaiser Foundation
Statistics Canada's E STAT

Other Sites Sponsored by the Kaiser Foundation

Annotations Supplied by Dr. Robert B. Hackey
Kasiernetwork.org Provides daily summaries of the latest news coverage in health care along with public opinion data
KaiserEDU.org Designed for students. organizes information by issue/topic an reference libraries
Statehealthfacts.org Up to date health data at the state level

Writing Guides

Location

APA Online Selected Portions of the Publication Manual (APA)
Publication Manual of the American psychological Association Copies are available at REF BF76.7 P83 2001 and Circulation Desk Reserves
Citing Sources Examples of APA, MLA and Chicago Citation styles
Plain Language Action and Information network Link to pdf file supplied by Dr. Robert B. Hackey, Health Policy and Management Department
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Connie Cameron, Health Policy & Management Liaison
Last revision to this page : 13 June 2007