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- Organizations and Associations
- Governmental Agencies / Government Publications
- Periodical Resources
- Other Resources
- Reference Publications
- Legal Resources
- Statistical Resources
- HIV/AIDS Information
- Related Topics
Organizations and Associations
- American Medical Association
- American Public Health Association
- Center for Health Care Strategies
- Established in 1995 as a non-profit, non-partisan policy and resource center affiliated with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Major areas of research include: "The Medicaid Managed Care Program," "Building Health Systems for People With Chronic Illnesses" and "Children's Issues in Managed Care."
- National Association of State Medicaid Directors
- National Mental Health Association (NMHA)
- National Safety Council
- A non-governmental organization promoting accident reduction through the exchange of health and safety ideas.
- Pan American Health Organization
- Provides full-text Country Health Profiles for over 45 countries, and publications list (database searchable by subject).
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- Provides the World Health Report, health statistics, newsletters, and other health-related information.
- Global Health Council
Governmental Agencies / Government Publications
- The 1998 and 1996 Green Books
- Prepared by the staff of the Committee on Ways and Means - 104th and 105th Congress -- searchable database
- Medicare and Healthcare Chartbook
- Prepared for the use of Members of the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives. This document has not been officially approved by the Committee and may not reflect the views of its Members. Entire document available in PDF format.
- Center for International Health Information
The Center for International Health Information (CIHI) is a USAID information management activity. CIHI’s purpose is to provide timely, reliable, and accurate information on the Population, Health, and Nutrition (PHN) sector in developing countries assisted by USAID.
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
- Part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, AHCPR is the lead agency charged with supporting research designed to impact the quality of health care, reduce its cost, and broaden access to essential services.
- Centers for Disease Control
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Tracking trends and analyzing new and reemerging infectious disease issues around the world.
- Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report : Recommendations and Reports
- Provides .pdf files that contain hypertext links --viewable with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report : CDC Surveillance Summaries
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report : Summary of Notifiable Diseases
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report : Weekly
- Searchable index is now available.
- Health Care Financing Administration : The Medicare and Medicaid Agency
- Provides a clearinghouse of information resources on Medicare and Medicaid. Included are consumer and technical publications, national legislative information, statistical overviews, and a state directory of basic contact information, among other features.
- National Center for Health Statistics
- Includes coming events, news releases and fact sheets, information on NCHS products, and more.
- National Health Information Center
- Founded in 1979 by the Department of Health and Human Services, this clearinghouse and health information referral service provides contacts to 1,100 organizations that have information on diseases, addictions, and health care issues.
- National Institutes of Health - Institutes and Offices
- Links to the many individual organizations that collectively make up the NIH. Some sites offer full-text consumer health publications.
Periodical Resources (some resources may not be full-text)
- American Hospital Publishing, Inc.
- Featuring a number of publications with full-text articles online, including Hospitals & Health Networks, AHA News, and Trustee
- Search the global AHPI archives
- This electronic archive contains articles that appeared in AHPI publications (Hospitals & Health Networks, AHA News, Trustee, Health Facilities Management and Materials Management in Health Care) from October 1995 to the present.
- American Journal of Nursing
- Provides a selection of articles from current issues.
- American Journal of Public Health
- Table of contents, abstracts, and editorials for current and back issues -- published by the American Public Health Association.
- British Medical Journal
- Abstracts and full-text of articles.
- Canadian Medical Association Journal
- Selected articles available in full text.
- Columbia Public Health
- Published by the Columbia School of Public Health -- search full text
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Contains environmental health news and research from around the world and a database of abstracts of past issues, back to 1972. Also contains position announcements and fellowship and grant announcements.
- Health Services Research Journal
- A multidisciplinary journal that provides to those engaged in research, public policy formation, and health care administration advance information on new trends and the latest techniques of research and evaluation. Provides abstracts of articles, 10-year index arranged by subject and author.
- Health Strategies Quarterly
- A quarterly newsletter from the Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. affiliated with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
- JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
- Searchable source for articles and indexes. Provides table of contents, abstracts and full-text versions of articles. Requires one-time, free registration to access.
- Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
- A multidisciplinary publication published quarterly by Duke University Press. Articles contain original scholarship on health politics, policy, and law from areas such as political science, economics, history, sociology, health services research, philosophy, ethics, and so forth.
- The Lancet
- Provides abstracts of articles and press releases. Requires free, one-time registration to access.
- Modern Health Care
- MedWeb Electronic Publications
- An extensive list of links to health/medicine-related electronic publications. Indicates whether information available is table of contents, abstracts, or full-text. Site is maintained by the Emory University Health Sciences Center Library.
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Provides abstracts (including background, methods, results, conclusions, and source information) and online capability of ordering full-text articles. Full text articles have a charge, apparently typically $10-$20.
- Nursing Research
- Provides a selection of articles from current issues.
- Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
Reference Publications
- ICD-9-CM, 6th Ed. (Published Oct/97 for FY98)
- Find ICD-9-CM codes using keyword search. Utility provided by Michael Hogarth, M.D. and Benny Poon of the UCDHS Center for Medical Informatics.
- The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
- The Sixteenth Edition of The Merck Manual was published in 1992 and some information is out of date. The Seventeenth Edition will be available in early 1998.
- The Merck Manual of Medical Information - Home Edition
- Published for the first time in September 1997.
- NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
Other Resources
- Achoo - Internet Healthcare Directory
- Catalogs, indexes, and evaluates healthcare information on the Internet. Includes news sections
- Adolescence Directory On-Line (ADOL)
- An electronic guide to information issues, provided by the Center for Adolescent Studies at Indiana University. Topics covered include: Conflict and Violence, Mental Health Issues, Health Issues, Counselor Resources, and What's New.
- CHID - Combined Health Information Database
- Provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources, many not indexed elsewhere. Produced by health-related agencies for the federal government. Updated quarterly.
- HealthAtoZ
- Offers quick access to medical information on the Web.
- Health Policy Page
- Provides articles on health-related issues.
- HealthWeb
- Organized access to evaluated non-commercial, health-related, Internet-accessible resources.
- Men's Health Issues: WWW Virtual Library
- Mental Health Net
- Guide to mental health online, including more than 6,300 individual resources. Includes information on disorders, professional resources in psychology, psychiatry and social work, journals and self-help magazines.
- Managed Care and Administration
- Includes a glossary of managed care terminology, a discussion forum, readings, and links to other resources
- National Library of Medicine -- Internet Grateful Med
- Provides free access to MEDLINE, AIDSLINE, HealthSTAR, AIDSDRUGS, AIDSTRIALS, DIRLINE, HISTLINE, HSRPROJ, OLDMEDLINE and SDILINE.
- National Library of Medicine -- PubMed
- NLM's free search service to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases.
- The Urban Institute Health Policy Center publications
- The Urban Institute, Research by Topic : Social Welfare : Health
- Includes full-text of UI papers on health issues.
Legal Resources
- American Bar Association Health Law Section
- This site contains general information as well as publications lists and contact numbers dedicated to the increasing interest in the field of health law. It represents all areas of the health law industry and is committed to educating the legal profession in this rapidly changing area of practice.
- Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly
- The Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly (CLPE) is dedicated to examining the law-related concerns of older persons. The Commission has sought to improve legal services for the elderly, and has explored legal issues surrounding long-term care, surrogate decision-making, individual rights, guardianship, housing, social security, elder abuse, and other public benefit programs.
- Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law
- The Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law has been committed to justice and the rule of law for persons with mental and physical disabilities since 1973. Besides a wide variety of publications, for the last nineteen years the Commission has been publishing the Mental and Physical Disability Law Reporter, the nation's longest running and most comprehensive source of disability law. Access to this Reporter is available at this site.
- The Health Law Resource
- This page is intended as a resource for health care practitioners, professionals or anyone interested in learning more about the dynamic field of health care law, and more specifically, the regulatory and transactional aspects of health care law practice.
- Supreme Court Decisions: Health
- Online at Cornell University's Legal Information Institute.
- Telemedicine and the Law
- Deals with the legal issues surrounding health information systems, computerized decision support technologies and telemedicine. Developed by Arent, Fox (D.C. law firm).
Statistical Resources
- Directory of Minority Health and Human Services Data Resources
- Produced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for policy makers, researchers, and the public as a reference document on data resources within HHS that contain race and ethnicity data. It includes data resources with current or potential widespread application. The Directory includes descriptions of over 100 reporting systems or data collection instruments. For each, the directory includes information on: the structure and content of the data; its availability; and a person to contact for further information or access to the data.
- FEDSTATS
- More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public. The FEDSTATS site provides easy access to the rich array of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use.
- Health Care Financing Administration Statistics and Data (Medicare and Medicaid)
- National Center for Health Statistics
HIV/AIDS Information
- AIDS Knowledge Base
- The University of California, San Francisco, and San Francisco General Hospital have begun to make the 1997 edition of this 2000-page AIDS textbook available. The 1994 edition is available, in its entirety, with icons pointing from outdated chapters to the updated (1997) ones.
- AIDS Education Global Information System
- "Largest HIV knowledge base in the world;" fully indexed and searchable.
- AIDS Related Documents
- Search the program evaluation abstracts from the Dept. Of Health and Human Services.
- HIV/AIDS Information Resources
- Provides links to many HIV/AIDS-related resources; online from the National Library of Medicine.
- HIV InSite
- Exhaustive clearinghouse of AIDS related information for practitioners, patients, and others interested in the topic. Includes Today's News, a summary of daily news stories from many sources. Provided by University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
- Harvard AIDS Review
- Publication formed by merger of two Harvard AIDS Institute publications -- The Harvard AIDS Letter and The AIDS Report.
- National AIDS Clearinghouse
- Facts about the disease and publications used to educate about AIDS; online from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- NIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR)
- The National Institutes of Health Office of AIDS Research is located within the Office of the Director of NIH and is responsible for the scientific, budgetary, legislative, and policy elements of the NIH AIDS research program.
- Supreme Court Decisions Search: AIDS
- IInternational AIDS Economics Network