Research Guides: Public Health: Health services administration

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Annual Review of Public Health
Offers summaries of research in the field of Public Health, including key developments in epidemiology and biostatistics, environmental and occupational health, issues related to social environment and behavior, health services, and public health practice.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Public Health
Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on public health topics. A good place to begin your research.

Foundations for Community Health Workers
ISBN: 1119060818
Provides an introduction to essential skills for CHWs, with an emphasis on social justice, cultural humility, and client-centered practice.
Foundations of Health Care Management
ISBN: 0470932120
Introductory text covering issues in health care management, including ethics, cost management, strategic planning and marketing, information technology, and human resources.
Introduction to Health Care Services: Foundations and Challenges
ISBN: 9781118450154
A comprehensive guide to the structure, synergy, and challenges in U.S. health care delivery, detailing the interaction of health, environments, organizations, populations, and the health professions.

ProQuest Research Library
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.
PubMed
Free database of biomedical and related life and behavioral sciences journal articles. Includes MEDLINE index and links to PubMed Central open access articles when available.
PolicyFile
Provides access to articles on public policy research and analysis from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Covers a wide range of topics from international trade to health care reform, from telecommunications regulation to terrorism. Most content is NOT peer-reviewed.

Health Resources and Services Administration
From the HHS, this site offers federally-published information on many areas of health and health policy.
National Center for Health Statistics
The National Center for Health Statistics is the principal health statistics agency that compiles statistical information to provide a credible, public resource for health information. Homepage links to FastStats (A-Z) and major data collection systems!
National Health Information Center (NHIC)
Sponsored by the the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), the National Health Information Center (NHIC) is a health information referral service. NHIC links people to organizations that provide reliable health information.
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services External Web Site Policy , is the nation’s medical research agency—making important discoveries that improve health and save lives. Their site includes information on individual health, clinical trials, grants and funding, and more.