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Healthcare Management Resources

Library Catalog
Interlibrary Loan 
Reference & Circulating Materials 
Government Documents 
Journals & Other Periodicals 
Databases 
Selected Internet Resources 

There is an extensive collection of sources for research in the Healthcare Management field available at the Marvin K. Peterson Library, including books, government documents, print journals and electronic databases. This guide presents a selection of resources, both ours and the Internet sources we list.

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Library Catalog

Use the Library Catalog to find circulating and reference materials, including books, audio-visual holdings, government documents, and periodical titles. (For periodical articles, see the Journals section.)

Our catalog uses the Library of Congress (LC) classification system and subject headings. LC assigns call numbers (letters and numerals) according to the book's primary subject.

Books on healthcare management may be found in these two areas: The H call number for Social Sciences, particularly the HB heading for Economic Theory, and the R call number for medicine, especially the RA section, which covers Public Aspects of Medicine.

Examples of some subject headings you might use in your search:

  • Biotechnology
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Health Economics
  • Health Planning
  • Health Services Administration
  • Health Services -- Organization & Administration
  • Hospitals Administration
  • Insurance, Health
  • Managed Care Plans
  • Medical Care
  • Medical Policy
  • Public Health Administration

 

Choose the type of search you want by selecting from among the many options offered: keyword, subject, author, title, etc. Then place the cursor in the find this box and type in the words you want to search.

Look for search tips at the bottom of the catalog search page. For more detailed search strategies, consult our guide on Using the UNH Library Catalog.

Interlibrary Loan

You may request an item that the library does not own. Please use our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service. ILL request forms for books and articles are available at the library Information Desk and online from the library's website. You should complete a separate ILL request form for each item requested. Note: It is the Peterson Library's policy not to order course textbooks. For more on Interlibrary Loan, click here.

Reference and Circulating Materials

Reference Materials (paper-only versions for use in library only; when available online, links are provided below)

Health-Care Careers for the 21st Century. Ref. R690 .W565 2000

Healthy People 2010. Also in print: Ref. RA395.A3 H45 2000

Health, United States, 2007. Also in print: Ref. RA407.3.U57a 2007

Circulating Materials (may be borrowed):

The Aggregate Effects of Health Insurance: Evidence from the Introduction of Medicare. HB1.A2 N3 no.11619

American Health: Demographics and Spending of Health Care Consumers. RA445 .A442 2005

Biotechnology for biomedical engineers TP248.2 .B5517 2003

Chronic Politics: Health Care Security from FDR to George W. Bush. RA412.2.F86 2005

Critical Pathways: January 1988 Through December 1995: 753 Citations. HE20.3615/2:95-8

Death and the City: Chicago's Mortality Transition, 1850-1925. HB1.A2 N3 no.11427

Did the HMO Revolution Cause Hospital Consolidation? HB1.A2 N3 no.11087

Fiscal Management of Healthcare Institutions. RA971.3.B76 1990

Health Care Economics. RA410 .F44 1993

Health Policies, Health Politics: the British and American Experience, 1911-1965. RA395.G6 F68 1986

Health Services in the United States: A Growth Enterprise Since 1875. RA395.A3 A624 1985

Healthcare Staffing & Budgeting: Practical Management Tools. RA971.3.K48 1988

HIV/AIDS in the Workplace. RA643.8 .S556 2008

Reforming Medicare: Options, Tradeoffs, and Opportunities. RA412.3 .A27 2008

Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2007: The Health Spending Challenge. RA410.53 .R88 2007

The Rise and Fall of HMOs: An American Health Care Revolution. RA413.5.U5 C677 2004 

Shapers of American Health Care Policy: An Oral History. RA395.A3 W44 1985

The U.S. Experiment in Social Medicine: The Community Health Center Program, 1965-1986. RA445 .S27 1988

Government Documents

The Marvin K. Peterson Library has been a Federal Depository Library since 1971. Government documents have been listed in our online catalog since 2000, and many publications are available online from the catalog. Click on the Linked Resources tab at the top of the catalog record screen to get to the live link to the publication. 

For documents received before 2000, use other online and print indexes. You may also consult How to Find US Government Documents, also available in print at the Information Desk. To use this collection, come to the Information Desk, where a staff member will assist you. We will retrieve documents for you, help you find documents not listed in our catalog, and direct you to other resources.

A sample of relevant government documents:

Journals & Other Periodicals

Periodical articles from scholarly journals, as well as from newspapers and magazines, can be a valuable source of information in all research fields. Journals available from the UNH Peterson Library on our home page is a listing of most of the periodical titles, current and historical, to which you have access through the library, including print, and microform materials in the library, as well as periodicals available electronically. To find:

♦Single journals or articles by citation: If you have the citation to an article, type the title of the journal in the top search box. Results will show which databases contain the journal electronically and give you a list of available issues to search through. Available UNH library holdings are also given to enable you to find and/or copy the article in the library. Periodicals are on the lower level. Current newspapers are at the Circulation Desk on the entry level.

♦Lists of journals by keyword or subject:  Use the top search option, with the drop-down box set to Title contains all words and search with title keywords, e.g. health care manag* or health care manag* (*= truncation here). You can also use the lower drop-down search box and select subjects like Health & Biological Sciences or Business & Economics and the listed subcategories. These methods allow you to identify periodicals in a field and browse current issues of these periodicals, either online or in the library. 

If you need a list of articles on a subject, use the periodical indexes found in this guide in the Databases section.

The following list provides a sampling of journal titles that are of interest to the healthcare management field:

Health Care Management Review; Health Care Management Science; Health Care Manager; Health Care Strategic Management; Health Data Management; Health Management Technology; Health Services Management Research; Healthcare Financial Management; Healthcare Risk Management; Journal of Business Strategy; Journal of Health Organization and Management; Journal of Healthcare Management; Journal of Public Health management and Practice; Managed Healthcare Executive; Quality Management in Health Care; Research in Healthcare Financial Management.

Databases

The most efficient way to find articles by subject is to use an index that searches the contents of many journals at one time. The Proxy Connection provides access to most of our databases when you are outside the library and it must be used often in the library as well. Enter your UNH network log-in when requested.

Select databases by title or provider or use the Subject List. Check out the Annotated List of Databases on the library home page for search tips, publications included, user's guides, tutorials, and links for each database.

Below you will find the databases that are most pertinent to healthcare management:

Business and Management Topics:

ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. Each of the three modules of ABI/INFORM has a different focus. Find local and regional business information in Dateline. The Global module focuses on worldwide in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques and theory. The Trade and Industry module provides users with the latest industry news, and product and competitive information.

BNA Human Resources Library. Provides coverage of human resource issues, describing state and federal compliance standards, organizational and staffing issues and summarizes major laws that relate to human resources.

Business and Company Resource Center. Allows you to search for company information and industry intelligence for thousands of companies. Find information in the form of articles, press releases, financial reports and market share data.

Conference Board. Focuses on economic and management issues, providing articles and financial data.

Directory of Corporate Affiliations. Up-to-date information on company profiles of both public and private companies. Parent companies, affiliates and subsidiaries are included with hierarchies detailed.

Emerald Full-Text Journals. collection of articles from 190 management journals. Covers all major management topics.

Hoover's Company Records. Full-text coverage of thousands of public and private companies and their top executives. Also includes coverage of industry analyses, company financial information, and top competitors.

Hoover's Online. Hoover's, Inc., delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence that drives business growth. A database of over 12 million companies, with in-depth coverage of over 40,000 of the world's top business enterprises. Updated daily.

Mergent Online. Financial information available for download, for business, economics, finance and accounting. The online version of several Mergent (formerly Moody's) publications on U.S. and international companies. Information includes company financials, company officials, and country information from the CIA World Factbook. Provides Access to EDGAR (SEC) filings that can be downloaded in Excel or PDF formats. Access for 5 people at a time. Log in at the Enter Mergent link and remember to log out. 

Reference USA. National business directory with many configurable search forms. Choose from company name, size, sales, SIC or NAICS codes, geographic area, and more.

Value Line Investment Survey. Online access available only within the library from http://www.valueline.com/. Ask the librarian to log you in with password.

♦Health and Science Topics:

CINAHL Full-Text Designed to serve the needs of health care professionals.

HighWire Press. Indexes and abstracts of medical literature with some full text.  Includes abstracts from MEDLINE. Highwire hosts the largest repository of peer-reviewed content, with with almost 5 million full text articles, of which more than 2 million articles are freely available.

Psychology Databases from EBSCOhost:

  • PsycARTICLES contains the full text of APA (American Psychological Association) journals back to the 1980s.
  • The Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection contains much full text with some citations and abstracts from non-APA journals back to the 1970s.
  • PsycINFO provides citations with abstracts to psychological literature from 1887 to the present. No full text, but a citation in this database will link to the full text, if available, in either PsycARTICLES or the Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, so a search in this database amounts to a search in all three. 

PubMed. The National Library of Medicine's PubMed database. Some full-text, many more citations.

ScienceDirect Web Editions. An index to books, journals, reviews, conference proceedings, and videos published by Elsevier.

♦Legal Topics:

Campus Research powered by Westlaw This database has two parts: the default tab is for news & business; you may also select the other tab, legal, and search for law cases regarding healthcare management.

HeinOnline Legal Periodicals. HeinOnline has several major library collections including: Law Journal Library, Federal Register Library, Treaties and Agreements Library, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library. 

LegalTrac. Indexes law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Also contains law-related articles from business and general interest titles.

♦Multidisciplinary Topics:

Academic OneFile. Search over 12,000 journals, (on topics both general and specialized) the majority of them peer-reviewed and available in full-text. Also has audio and transcripts from National Public Radio.

Berkeley Electronic Press. Contains a vast repository of working papers and preprints, with a complete list arranged by subject.

Current Research@. Provides full-text dissertations published at the University of New Haven from 1996 to the present, and citations and abstracts for previous years.

Directory of Open Access Journals. Freely available online journals, organized by subject. Hosted at Lund University, Sweden, a co-project of SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and Open Access Institute, Budapest. Browse by title or subject, or choose a keyword search.

Expanded Academic ASAP. Scholarly articles from thousands of journal titles on a wide spectrum of subjects.

FirstSearch (available within library only). Search groups of databases (by topic) or by individual database. FirstSearch can also suggest the best database to search, depending on your search terms.

General OneFile. Covers a wide gamut of information-popular, business, and professional topics from thousands of periodical titles, dating back to 1980, over half of which are available in full text.

GPO Access. A website created by the U.S. Government Printing Office. This is a portal to publications produced by many government agencies. Great source for federal health and safety regulations.

InfoMine. A University of California site organizing by topic freely available scholarly Internet databases and web sites.

¡Informe! is a collection of Spanish-language periodicals covering a broad range of topics, including business and health.

IRIS. A searchable database of over 8,000 federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. Updated daily.

LexisNexis Statistical. A collection of over 30,000 statistical tables from U.S. Government and international, trade and professional organizations, covering most topics. 

Newspapers - Current (ProQuest). Includes the full-text of the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.

Newspapers - Historical (ProQuest). Back issues of these newspapers: Hartford Courant (1764-1922), Los Angeles Times (1881-1986), and the New York Times (1851-2005). Please note: In order to include the Hartford Courant in a search, you must select it by selecting the ‘multiple databases'  link under the basic search box and checking the radio box for the Hartford Courant on the next screen.

Selected Internet Resources

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead federal agency for research on health care quality, costs, outcomes, and patient safety.

American Association of Healthcare Consultants. The AAHC is the premier association for consultants in health care.

The American College of Health Care Administrators is a professional society that provides programming, certification, and career development.

American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) is an international society with over 30,000 members from the hospital and healthcare arena.

American Hospital Association (AHA). The American Hospital Association is a national organization that provides education for health care leaders.

American Medical Association (AMA). The American Medical Association is dedicated to providing an arena for physicians nationwide to communicate on vital public and professional health issues.

American Medical Informatics Association. The AMIA is the national association for Medical Informatics, which is concerned with the efficient utilization and sharing of information in the medical field.

Association of University Programs in Health Administration. The Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) is a not-for-profit association of university-based educational programs, faculty, practitioners, and provider organizations. Its members are dedicated to continuously improving the field of healthcare management and practice.

Careers in Healthcare Administration and Consulting. A resource guide for healthcare jobs in consulting and administration, from the University of Chicago.

Connecticut Department of Public Health. Covers public health code, publications, statistics, agency news, and more. 

Connecticut Hospital Association is "dedicated to representing and serving Connecticut's hospitals since it was established in 1919," focusing on advocacy and member services.

Dartmouth Atlas Project works to accurately describe how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States.

HCUPnet is a free on-line query system based on data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. Provides statistics in the field of health, especially regarding length of hospital stays on the national, regional, and state levels.

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA). Dedicated to the implementation of ethical medical standards by those working in the health care compliance realm, including hospitals, home health care, third party billing and pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Health Career Web. Search health-related jobs by employer or location. Includes helpful articles and salary calculators.

Health Grades. Hospital ratings.

Health Resources and Services Administration an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated or medically vulnerable.

Healthcare Costs and Utilization Project is a family of health care databases and related software tools and products developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership.

Healthcare Financial Management Association. Having over 35,000 members that range from CFOs to accountants that may be found in hospitals, physician's practices, accounting firms and more, the HFMA supports its members with education and coalitions.

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. The group's vision is "Advancing the best use of information and management systems for the betterment of health care."

Healthcare Management Council (HMC). The HMC helps hospital and healthcare companies manage costs efficiently and achieve performance improvements through benchmarking initiatives.

HealthcareSource. This site has geographical job search capabilities with information for both employers and job seekers.

hospitallink.com is a web site directory that can locate more than 6,000 hospitals and 1,700 web sites by city, state, hospital name and/or zip code.

Monster.com:HealthCare. Healthcare division of Monsterboard; advice, tips, and a job search engine.

National Business Coalition on Health. As a "coalition of coalitions," this giant organization represents more than 10,000 employers.

National Center for Health Statistics. Explains current conditions and follows health trends based on extensive statistical analysis.

Pam Pohly's Net Guide. This is a national consulting firm specializing in healthcare employment.

Public Health Job Bank is a "service of the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) Employment Council. ASPH is the only national organization representing the interests of all 36 accredited schools of public health in the United States."

RAND Health. The original think tank. For 60 years RAND has been undertaking research and analysis geared towards improving healthcare policy.

State Health Facts.org. Search individual states for demographics such as health status, insurance, and health costs and budgets.

Statistical Abstract of the United States. The health chapter has substantial statistics regarding health expenditures, insurance, medical personnel, hospitals, and other facilities.

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