LIBRARY GUIDE TO NRS 5241 - Health Policy and Finance

START by exploring Library OneSearch (includes books, ebooks, academic journals, newspapers) use facets on left to narrow by source type - choose " Limit to articles from scholarly publications, including peer-review"

Search for articles, books, and more...

Possible subject databases for finding literature:

• ABI/Inform Complete Business press, trade publications, academic journals, and newspapers related to administration and management, hospital adminstration. 
• CINAHL Plus with Full-Text comprehensive and highly-authoritative database for research in nursing and health sciences.
• EMBase Comprehensive coverage of the preclinical, medical and pharmacological sciences. Strong in the European literature.
• PubMed - The National Library of Medicine's free interface for MEDLINE the premier database for biomedical journal citations.
• LexisNexis Academic Universe Legal information such as court decisions, legal codes, legal news, and law journals. The coverage includes information both at the state level and at the federal level.
• Web of Science Over 12,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 150,000 conference proceedings.
   

For all research databases BROWSE SUBJECT LIST of DATABASES.


Finding data & statisitics 
1. Government Health sites:

• Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - National Center for Health Statistics
• HealthData.gov -a federal government website managed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• World Health Organization
   

2. Government Statsitics 

• DemographicsNow database available through MEL. Limited Census data searching
• American FactFinder
• Census of the United States
• FedStats
• Kids Count - a wealth of stats on children
• Statistical Abstract of the United States

• APHA - American Public Health Association A non-profit member organization dedicate to promoting public health policy.
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - Department of Health and Human Services.
• Public Health Institute - PHI generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.
• The Health Policy Group of the The Council of State Governments - provides policy analysis and innovative programming for state health policy leaders.
• The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S it develops and runs its own research, journalism and communications programs.

Database tutorials
CINAHL
PUBMED

EBP tutorials:
Evidence-Based Practice Quick Reference Guide (Alaska Medical Library)
Evidence-Based Practice in the Health Sciences: EBP Nursing Tutorial (UIC

Analyzing Sources & Literature Review tutorials:
Essential Elements of a Literature Review guide (UC Santa Cuz)
Conducting Literature Reviews - detailed guide (USC)
Critically Analyzing Information Sources (Cornell Libraries)

RefWorks is available through the Library subcriptions. You create a personal database of references, generate a bibliography from your list of references & automatically format in any common citation style.Refworks tutorials

Citation Style Guides:

• APA Formating and Style Guide with examples (by Owl at Purdue)
  • Sample APA paper
  • APA style tutorial

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