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- CDC Wonder
- Access to over twenty data sets, including MMWR, Cancer Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results, Fatal Accident Reporting, and National Occupational Mortality Surveillance. Register to save queries and results.
- State and County QuickFacts
- Quick, easy access to facts about people, business, and geography.
- State and Local Government on the Net
- Offers a compilation of Internet sites grouped by state, including agencies, offices, boards, and commissions, and individual county and city sites in each state.
- HHS Agencies
- Links to the individual agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
- GPO Access
GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted. This free service is funded by the Federal Depository Library Program and has grown out of Public Law 103-40, known as the Government Printing Office Electronic Information Enhancement Act of 1993. GPO Gate provides another way to access these databases via the University of California. Other government information in print, microform, and electronic formats is available from the Documents collection of the Reference Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. - National Conference of State Legislatures
- Provides the ability to search state documents encompassing legislative policy reports, current and past legislation, state statutes, and 50-state surveys. Serves as a gateway to state legislative sites.
- Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services
- Formerly the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). Presents comprehensive information and data on Medicare, Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
- NCQA's Health Plan Report Card
- Publishes results on managed care organizations that care for commercially insured individuals and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. Offers the option to create customized report cards for specific health plans.
- HealthGrades - The Healthcare Quality Experts
- Grades the performance of health care providers in the United States, including hospitals, physicians, health plans, and nursing homes; also includes provider profiles based on patient satisfaction surveys.
- Appendix C: State and National Healthy People Web Sites Updated Version
- Links to individual states' Healthy People 2010 Web sites.
- State Publications Search
- Contains citation information for official state publications that include BRFSS data, such as Healthy People 2000 reports and newsletters.
- AcademyHealth - Advancing Research, Policy and Practice
- AcademyHealth is the professional home for health services researchers, policy analysts, and practitioners, and a leading, non-partisan resource for the best in health research and policy. AcademyHealth promotes interaction across the health research and policy arenas by bringing together a broad spectrum of players to share their perspectives, learn from each other, and strengthen their working relationships.
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Health Care Philanthropy
- Funds and publishes research on issues related to health care access, substance abuse, and chronic care; also provides support for programs in these areas.
- Commonwealth Fund
- Supports independent research on health and social issues such as improving health care services, advancing the well-being of the elderly, and child health.
- Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- The Kaiser Family Foundation provides comparative state data on selected health issues in its State Health Facts Online section
- Urban Institute
- Researches domestic policy issues and evaluates government programs; health policy topics include the medically uninsured, Medicare and Medicaid, managed care, state initiatives for health care reform, and acute and long term care.
- Center for Health Care Strategies
- Funds research and provides technical assistance to improve the delivery of health care services for America's low income and special needs populations.
- Stateline.org
- Provides issue-specific or state-specific news and background information on health care and other public policies.
- American Hospital Association Guide to the Health Care Field (annual)
HSL Reference-1st Floor WX 22 AA1 A5123
- HMO/PPO Directory (annual)
HSL Reference-1st Floor W 22 AA1 H677
- Health and Healthcare in the United States : County and Metro Area
Data
HSL Reference-1st Floor WA 900 AA1 H4328 1999
- Social and Health Landscape of Urban and Suburban America
HSL Reference-1st Floor WA 900 AA1 A576s 1999
- America's Top-Rated Cities : A Statistical Handbook
HSL Reference-1st Floor HN 60 A512 1998
- Health and Environment in America's Top-Rated Cities [serial]
HSL Reference-1st Floor WA 16 H4339 1994
Search the UNC-Chapel Hill Catalog for books and journal titles.
- Use subject headings such as Health Policy, Health Services Administration, Public Health Administration, Managed Care Programs, and Public Health - statistics.
Browse the Collection: Call number ranges for statistics are
W74-W84.1, WA520-WA540.1 and WA900
Search one of the following databases.
- PubMed (MEDLINE)
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
- Health Services Research Projects in Progress Fact Sheet
Indexes research-in-progress funded by federal, state, private organization, and foundation grants and contracts before results are available in published form.
- LexisNexis Academic
Provides full-text access to general, regional and international news, company news and financial information, legal information, and other topics such as biographical information. LexisNexis Academic is a web-based service that provides access to most of the information formerly available on the LexisNexis Educational Program (approximately 75% of the titles). It covers general, regional and international news, company news and financial information, legal information (including law reviews, case law and legal rulings), and other topics such as biographical information. Many of the files are full-text. LexisNexis Academic is a service of LexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions.
Check the UNC-Chapel Hill Catalog to see if the library has an electronic and/or print subscription to a journal. For assistance, go to: Finding Journals at the Health Sciences Library.
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