SOC 102 - Thomas
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Health Policy-Related Databases
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowAcademic journals, magazines, reports, books, and select newspapers on virtually any subject.
- CINAHL This link opens in a new windowSearch articles from top nursing and allied health journals, evidence-based care sheets and quick lessons. View Basic Search Tutorial.
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new windowIn-depth reports on current and controversial issues, with overviews, outlooks, background information, pros and cons, bibliographies and more.
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowEncyclopedias and specialized reference sources, with links to additional CSN Library databases and resources.
- EBSCO Complete This link opens in a new windowSearch across more than 20 subject collections for a variety of sources including journal articles and books.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new windowEncyclopedias and specialized reference sources covering a broad range of subjects and disciplines.
- Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new windowSearch articles from magazines and journals with an emphasis on consumer health information including food, nutrition, childcare, sports and general health.
- JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association (1998-present) This link opens in a new windowPublished continuously since 1883, JAMA is one of the most widely circulated peer-reviewed medical journals in the world. Access articles published as far back as 1998.
- Las Vegas/Nevada News (Newsbank) This link opens in a new windowSearch articles from the Las Vegas Review Journal, Las Vegas Sun, Boulder City View and Henderson View.
- Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new windowPro and con information on a variety of contemporary social issues along with articles from magazines, journals, newspapers and other sources.
- Proquest: Health and Medicine This link opens in a new windoweBooks and journals related to health and medicine including career and technical information for health professionals.
- Proquest: Health and Medicine This link opens in a new windoweBooks and journals related to health and medicine including career and technical information for health professionals.
- ProQuest Central This link opens in a new windowInterdisciplinary collection of magazine, journal and newspaper articles.
- PubMed Central This link opens in a new windowScholarly articles in biomedical and life sciences journal literature from the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
"Health policy defines health goals at the international, national or local level and specifies the decisions, plans and actions to be undertaken to achieve these goals. An explicit health policy can achieve several things: it clarifies the values on which a policy is based; it defines a vision for the future, which in turn helps to establish objectives and the priorities among them; and it facilitates setting targets and milestones for the short and medium term. This can clarify the challenges to be faced, why these challenges need to be tackled and feasible and effective ways of doing this. Consensus can then be strengthened, and various groups can understand what might be their expected role in implementing the policy."
(Definition from: "Health Policy." World Health Organization, 06 April 2021, https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-policy/health-policy.)