Health Systems & Policy: Finding Literature
Policy Literature Databases
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PAIS Index (Public Affairs Information Service) This link opens in a new windowCovers public affairs, public and social policy, and international relations. Includes national and international journal articles, books, government documents, statistics, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, microfiche, and pertinent web sites.
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Policy Commons This link opens in a new windowProvides indexed access to government grey literature and reports from national and international governmental agencies.
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Public Affairs Index This link opens in a new windowProvides indexing on national and global contemporary public policy issues.
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IssueLab This link opens in a new windowContains free access to case studies, evaluations, white papers, annual reports, issue briefs, and numerous other materials addressing the world's social problems that include aging, crime and safety, government reports, nonprofit and philanthropy, race and ethnicity, and transportation.
Journals
Other Policy Resources
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Health Policy Resources at PSU and Summit LibrariesUse this link to explore health policy resources at PSU Library and Summit Libraries.
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National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP)"...nonpartisan forum of policymakers throughout state governments, learning, leading and implementing innovative solutions to health policy challenges."
Health Databases
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PubMed (Interface for MEDLINE) This link opens in a new windowProvides citations and abstracts for journal articles in all areas of medical practice and research from 1953 to the present.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic edition This link opens in a new windowPresents article citations and full text articles from health and medicine journals.
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Gale OneFile Health and Medicine This link opens in a new windowIncludes selected full text journals on nursing, allied health, and medical journals as well as consumer health magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, newspaper articles, topical overviews, and reference books.
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Alt-HealthWatch This link opens in a new windowContains full text articles and other publications covering topics in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
Scopus @ OHSU
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Scopus (access from OSHU Library)Citation and abstract database of peer-reviewed literature that can be used by researchers to determine the impact of specific authors, articles/documents and journals.