Health Policy  

Among the Health Policy journals that USciences library receives are these listed below. 
Check Our Journal List for these and other titles.

·     American Journal of Managed Care -- print+internet

·     American Journal of Public Health -- internet

·     Ethics and Medicine -- internet

·     Hastings Center Report -- internet

·     Health Affairs -- internet

·     Health Care Analysis -- internet

·     Health Care Financing Review -- internet

·     Health Policy and Planning -- internet (12 month embargo)

·     Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology -- internet

·     International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics -- internet

·     Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research -- internet

·     Journal of Health Care Finance -- internet

·     Journal of Healthcare Management -- internet

·     Journal of Health, Politics, Policy and Law -- internet

·     Milbank Quarterly -- internet (12 month embargo)

·     Modern Healthcare -- internet

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Quick instructions for searching Our Journal List

1.    Access Our Journal List (also located in the Quick Links section which appears on the side of most pages).  This tool allows you to search the library’s full text and print journals holdings. 

2.    Enter all or part of the journal title in the Quick Search box and click Search;  Make sure you enter a journal title and not an article title.

3.     Titles matching your search will be displayed. Note the Online Coverage column which shows the date range of full text onlineholdings for each title.  

4.    Online Journals - To see a journal that is available online, click on its checkmark link  () under Full Text Access. The link should take you directly to the online journal where you can locate your article.  If you are off-campus, you will need a valid username and password to view most online articles.  Some online journal articles are not available from off-campus due to vendor or technical barriers.

5.    Print Holdings - To see which volumes of a journal title the library holds, click on the checkmark link  () under Print Holdings.  The link will take you to the title's entry in cataLyst, the library's catalog (Sometimes instead of a single entry, a results list will appear).  Scroll down through the entry to find the location of the journal and the library's holdings.  Most bound and unbound journals are on the library's second floor.

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• If you do not see the Find Full Text at USciences link next to an item you would like to read, look beneath the citation for a link that reads All (#) versions. If present, click this link to see all the locations the item is hosted online. In some instances, free access to the item may be available through one of these locations. If not, consider placing a request via ILLiad for the item.
  

Important Note: Google Scholar's search results are not exhaustive, so do not assume that you have found "everything" on your topic via Scholar. It is just one tool to employ in your searches.

Click a title/author link to check availability in the library catalog (cataLyst); A status of Not Charged indicates the book is available.

Essentials of Health Policy and Law - Joel B. Teitelbaum; Sara E. Wilensky

Call Number: WA 33 AA1 T265 2013

ISBN: 9781449653309

Publication Date: 2012-04-05

"Essentials Of Health Policy And Law Provides Students Of Public Health With A Firm Foundation Of The Basics Of American Health Policy And Law. The Aim Of This Book Is To Help Readers Understand The Broad Context Of Health Policy And Law, The Essential Policy And Legal Issues Impacting And Flowing Out Of The Health Care And Public Health Systems, And The Way Health Policies And Laws Are Formulated."

Understanding Health Policy, Sixth Edition - Thomas Bodenheimer; Kevin Grumbach

Call Number: WA 540 AA1 B666 2012

ISBN: 9780071770521

Publication Date: 2012-02-15

Expert practitioners in both the public and private healthcare sectors, the authors cover the entire scope of our healthcare system, from the concepts behind policy decisions to concrete examples of how they affect patients and professionals alike.
Features:
• Covers the 2010 Affordable Care Act;
• Coverage of structure, organization, and financing of the health care system;
• Key principles, descriptions, and concrete examples are skillfully interwoven in each chapter to make important issues interesting and understandable;
• Clinical vignettes clarify difficult concepts and demonstrate how they apply to real-world situations;
• Comprehensive list of review questions reinforce what you have learned;

The Safety-Net Health Care System - Gunnar Robert Almgren; Taryn Lindhorst

Call Number: W 250 AA1 A448

ISBN: 9780826105714

Publication Date: 2012-01-01

A unique and authoritative guide to the US safety-net health care system, Health Care at the Margins addresses how various populations and their difficult health and socio-economic issues are dealt with and impacted by the system. Drs. Gunnar Almgren and Taryn Lindhorst, experts in the fields of social work and public health, provide critical, much-needed insight into the safety-net system and how the recession, unemployment, and reform have accelerated its growth.

Ideal for graduate students and early professionals in the health professions, this textbook:

• Includes narratives from patients and caregivers that will help readers understand and empathize with the poor, homeless, and other vulnerable populations affected by the safety net system
• Discusses various health issues, including: violence, chronic diseases, mental illness, victimization, and substance abuse/addiction
• Examines overlaps in US public health, social work, nursing, and medical education
• Analyzes the differences between the populations that depend on safety-net system providers and more advantaged populations that have access to the mainstream health care system

Health Care State Rankings 2011 - Scott Morgan (Editor); Kathleen Oleary (Editor)

Call Number: Ref. WA 900 AA1 H4342 2011

ISBN: 9781608717323

Publication Date: 2011-03-22

Is your state trending toward healthier habits? What kind of exercise activities are popular among residents? Are lyme disease or salmonella infections prevalent where you live? This annual guide features more than 500 tables compiled from a wealth of authoritative sources of health care data for the 50 United States plus Washington, DC. The easy-to-use format makes it easy to compare statistics and to identify important health care trends across the nation. Discover how states rank in teen birth rates, access to doctors, infant mortality, smoking, cancer cases, and so much more. This is a must-have reference for any library serving health policy experts or enthusiasts.

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