Health Policy Research Guide
Library Catalog
Books and media dealing with health care and related topics can be found using Library of Congress Subject Headings such as:
- Agriculture-Environmental Aspects
- Communicable Diseases
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Environmental Health
- Environmental Policy
- Environmental Toxicology
- Green Movement
- Health Care Reform
- Health Planning
- Health Risk Assessment
- Health Status Indicators
- Health Surveys/
- Homeslessness
- Insurance, Health
- Insurance, Long Term Care
- Long Term Care of the Sick
- Malnutrition
- Managed Care
- Medicaid
- Medical Care
- Medical Economics
- Medical Policy
- Medically Uninsured
- Medicare
- Mental Health Policy
- Mental Health Services
- National Health Insurance
- Poor-Medical Care
- Public Health
- Social Medicine
Recent Reference Books
These are useful to find definitions, topic introductions, illustrations, and statistics.
- Control of Communicable Diseases Manual Ref. RA 643 .C66 2008
- Dictionary of Health Economics and Finance Ref. RA 410 .A3 .D53 2007
- Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society Ref. RC 254.5 .E48 2007 3 vols.
- Encyclopedia of Global Health Ref. RA 441 .E53 2008 4 vols.
- Encyclopedia of Obesity Ref. RC 628 .E53 2008 2 vols.
- Health Care Policy and Politics A to Z Ref. Desk RA 395 .A3 .R685 2008
- Health Care State Rankings 2008 Ref. Desk 407.3 .H423
- Healthy People 2010 Ref. Desk RA 395 .A3 .H44 2000 See Also www.healthypeople.gov (developing 2020)
- Homelessness in America Ref. HV 4505 .H65117 3vols.
- Infectious Diseases Ref. RC 111 .I516 2008 2 vols.
- Rich and Poor in America Ref. HC 110.15 .G55 2008
Current Titles of Interest
- Body Toxic RA 1213 .B25 2008
- America’s Food HD 9005 .B628 2008
- Critical: What We Do About the Health Care Crisis RA 395 .A3 .D375 2008
- Critical Condition VideoD RA 413.7 .U53 .C75 2008
- Environmental Health and Child Survival RJ 383 .E583 2008
- Green Plans GE 195 .J64 2008
- Health Care Half-Truths R 708 .G18 2007
- Healthcare Fix RA 412.2 .K68 2007
- Killer Commodities RA 427.3 .K45 2009
- Therapy After Terror: 9/11 RC 552 .P67 .S394 2008
- Understanding New, Resurgent, and Resistant Diseases RA 643 .L56 2007
- Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? VideoD RA 448.4 .U53 2008
Indexing/Abstracting/Full-Text Databases
These are useful to find magazine, newspaper or journal articles, often in full-text within the database or in the third floor north Periodicals area of the Library:
- Academic Search Premier
- Business Source Premier
- Cinahl
- Health Reference Center
- Lexis/Nexis
- Medline
- Sciencedirect
- Social Sciences Abstracts
- Socindex
- Wilson Omnifile
Periodicals
Use the Periodical Holdings list online and/or 360 link within databases to locate what the Library subscribes to whether in print (third floor north) and/or in electronic format, for example, American Journal of Public Health, JAMA, Journal of Adolescent Health Care, Social Science & Medicine, etc.
Internet/World Wide Web
U.S. (and N.Y.S.) government web sites are some of the best sources for objective online information; WHO for international data, news, country information, etc., for example,
- www.cdc.gov Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- www.fedstats.gov gateway to federal statistical information
- www.healthfinder.gov gateway to health information
- www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ one of the best for general health, disease, drugs, etc.
- www.health.state.ny.us NYS Dept. of Health for consumers and professionals
- www.hhs.gov U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
- www.pandemicflu.gov latest on H1N1, Avian…
- www.statehealthfacts.org Kaiser Family Foundation provides map with state health data
- www.statepublichealth.org state health officials, information and analysis
- www.who.int/en World Health Organization
Prepared by Ellen Paterson/Health Bibliographer 9/1997
Revised by Joan Packard, June 2000.
Compiled by Ellen Paterson, revised May 2009