Health Policy Research

See the Guide to US Public Policy for a step-by-step guide to legislative history and policy resources.

Starting Your Research

Get the latest news from these foundations for research and analysis.

• The Kaiser Family Foundation
• The Commonwealth Fund
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Recent Developments

• 2010 Health Care reform legislation (complied by the Law Librarians' Society of DC)
  • P.L. 111-148 - Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act - CBO cost estimate
  • Minority Response
  • Modified by PL111-152 - Health Care & Education Reconciliation Act - CBO cost estimate
• Health Reform GPS - implementation tracking by George Washington University and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Finding articles

• PubMed (aka MEDLINE)- millions of citations to biomedical research from the National Library of Medicine
  • Search PubMed within these subjects by adding keywords to the box at the top of the page.  Use LinkOut to access articles subscribed to by the UO Libraries.
    • Public Policy
    • Health Policy
    • Policy Making
• Google Scholar - Use the UO FindText link at right to access the full text of articles (for on-campus or VPN users)
• Academic Search Premier - Extensive news coverage from magazines and newspapers, as well as a wide array of scholarly journals.

Finding Books and Movies

Refine these results by adding search terms to the box at the top, or by clicking on the descriptions in the left column.

• Medical Policy
• Health Policy
• Public Health
• Health Promotion

• Health Care Reform
• National Health Programs
• Health Insurance
• Medically Uninsured

• Mental Health Policy

Government and Web Resources

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
• US Department of Health & Human Services Regulations & Policies (including HIPAA)
• Centers for Disease Control Alphabetical list of health topics with links to relevant programs and datasets
• National HIV/AIDS Policy

• Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports - Available in LexisNexis Congressional; see video demo for search tips (5 minutes)
• Government Accountability Office Reports - Check Health and set your date range to browse
• Congressional Budget Office publications on Health topics

• American Policy Directory Search national interest groups

• Oregon Health Authority New state agency created by HB 2009
• Oregon Health Policy and Research - relevant statutes and regulations, reports, and more
• Oregon Policy Directory Search state interest groups
• Search Oregon city/county websites:

Statistics

Librarians in the Knight Library's Document Center can assist with hard-to-locate data.

• National Center for Health Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control
• Current Population Survey Covers health insurance status; conducted by the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics

• FedStats - statistics collected by the US federal government; browsable by topic or place

• State of Oregon Health Policy and Research Data Unit
• Data for Local Communities Topical list of data sources on the web for local communities in Oregon

• More sources for statistics and datasets

Maps and Images

The UO's large collection of maps is located in the Document Center, on the first floor of the Knight Library. This is also the location for geographic information systems (GIS) datasets.

• The State of Health Atlas Maps Collection R120. O36 2008
• World Atlas of Epidemic Diseases Maps Collection G1046 .E51 C57 2004
• World Health Organization Global Atlas of Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Medicine Knight R773 .W4875 2005
• Maps and GIS data

• National Library of Medicine online exhibits include posters and ephemera from a variety of public health campaigns.

For further assistance, contact Tom Stave in the Document Center, at tstave@uoregon.edu.