LibGuides: Mock Convention Resources: Healthcare

Researching Healthcare

Key Concepts in Public Health
Identifies key concepts used across the discipline of public health in order to give the reader a broad perspective of the core topics relevant to training and practice.
Worldmark Global Health and Medicine Issues
This reference book covers current health and medicine issues with global impact in the modern world and organizations and groups addressing these issues.
Encyclopedia of Women's Health
Informed by current health issues and health-care realities, this reference book offers readers practical information, historical aspects, and future directions, all meticulously researched and conveniently presented.

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Alt-HealthWatch This link opens in a new window
Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window
Access to over 80 full text consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Harvard Health Letter, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others.
International Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Covers the scholarly research in political science and related disciplines.

Kaiser Family Foundation
The Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit organization focusing on national health issues, as well as the U.S. role in global health policy. KFF serves as a non-partisan source of facts, analysis and journalism for policymakers, the media, the health policy community and the public.
International Healthcare System Profiles
Provides full profiles of international health systems describing the role of government, how systems are organized and financed, who and what is covered, and what is being done to ensure quality of care, reduce disparities, and promote care coordination.
Department of Health and Human Services
It is the mission of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to enhance and protect the health and well-being of all Americans. They fulfill that mission by providing for effective health and human services and fostering advances in medicine, public health, and social services.
Healthcare.gov
The main government portal for enrolling in health insurance plans, or finding information and answers about the Affordable Care Act.

KFF -10 Key Questions on Public Option Proposals
An introduction to how a public option would look according to various proposals.
COULD A PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE OPTION LEAD TO MORE COMPETITIVE MARKETS?
From the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, the article describes how a public option could operate using Medicare Advantage as a guide.

PNHP's summary of Single Payer Health care Bill
An Independent, non-partisan voluntary organization of physicians who advocate for universal health insurance.
The Commonweal Fund - Considering “Single Payer” Proposals in the U.S.: Lessons from Abroad
Article from Commonweal, a non-profit dedicated to supporting independent research on health care issues and making grants to improve health care practice and policy.

Racism and Health: Evidence and Needed Research
From Annual Review of Public Health, this article provides an overview of the evidence linking the primary domains of racism—structural racism, cultural racism, and individual-level discrimination—to mental and physical health outcomes.
Why doesn’t the United States have universal health care? The answer has everything to do with race.
New York Times Magazine article that traces the history of the United State's national health care efforts from a racial lens.

Centers for Medicad and Medicare Services - National Health Expenditure Accounts
The National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA) are the official estimates of total health care spending in the United States. Dating back to 1960, the NHEA measures annual U.S. expenditures for health care goods and services, public health activities, government administration, the net cost of health insurance, and investment related to health care.
Addressing Health Equity in Public Health Practice:
This review describes the context of health equity and options for integrating equity into public health practice. We first discuss how the conceptualization of health equity and how equity considerations in US public health practice have been shaped by multidisciplinary engagements.
KKF - Health Costs
Resources from the Kaiser Family Foundation on the cost of healthcare for the individual and nation.

Guttmacher Institute
Research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United States and globally.
Office on Women's Health
OWH coordinates women's health efforts across the Department of Health and Human Services and addresses critical women's health issues by informing and advancing policies, educating health care professionals and consumers, and supporting innovative programs.
Pew Research - Abortion
See the latest Pew Research Center reports and data on views toward abortion in the United States and around the world.
Center for Reproductive Rights
The Center for Reproductive Rights uses the power of law to advance reproductive rights as fundamental human rights around the world.

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