Research Guides: Health Care Policy: Quick Links

Textbooks

Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach, 8e by Kevin Grumbach; Thomas S. Bodenheimer
Publication Date: 2020
Focuses on basic principles of health policy in hopes that the reader will come away with a clearer, more systematic way of thinking about health care in the United States, its problems, and the alternatives for managing these problems. Most of the principles also apply to understanding health care systems in other nations.
Comparative Health Policy, 5e by Robert H. Blank; Viola Burau; Ellen Kuhlmann
Call Number: RA394 .B56 2018
Publication Date: 2018
Introduction to the provision, funding and governance of health care across a variety of systems. Incorporates additional material on low/middle income countries, as well as broadened coverage relating to healthcare outside of hospitals and the ever-increasing diversity of the healthcare workforce today.

Commonwealth Fund
Promotes a high-performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society’s most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, and people of color.
Kaiser Family Foundation
Non-profit organization focusing on national health issues, as well as the U.S. role in global health policy.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The nation’s largest philanthropy dedicated solely to health.

Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles covering the physical and social sciences, technology, medicine, engineering, the arts, technology, literature, and others.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Digitized back runs of scholarly journals dating back to the 1600s. The past 1-5 years of current titles may not be available. Subjects include arts, business and economics, history, humanities, law, medicine and health, science and mathematics, and more.
Research Library This link opens in a new window
A broad general reference resource with a wide range of the most utilized subjects and topics in scholarly journals, professional and trade publications, and general interest magazines.
SAGE Journals This link opens in a new window
Full-text coverage of peer-reviewed, scholarly journals in social sciences, business, humanities, science, medicine, dentistry, radiology, nursing, emergency medicine, biology, materials science, engineering, and sports medicine.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Search across many disciplines and sources for scholarly articles, theses, books, abstracts, patents and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other reputable websites.

CINAHL® Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides broad content coverage including 50 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine and more.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Comprises more than 37 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Be sure to use this link to see full-text options available through Madigan Library.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. Subjects include anthropology, archaeology, cultural studies, demography, economics, education, political science, religious studies, and sociology.
Political Science Database This link opens in a new window
Leading political science and international relations journals, providing full-text of many core titles. Also includes working papers, conference proceedings, country profiles, political news and other sources.