Database Digest: Health Policy Reference Center

Health Policy Reference Center is a new information resource now available to faculty, staff, and students. The Health Policy Reference Center provides full-text coverage on health policy topics including documents from related areas such as health care access and delivery, administration, financing and economic, planning, quality, reform, insurance, law, research, long-term care, maternal and child-health, ethics, public health, and social medicine. The Health Policy Reference Center indexes and provides full text access to journal articles, books, magazines, and trade publications. International health policy issues are well represented with publications from North and South America, Western and Central Europe, Australia and New Zealand, East Africa, and Iran.

The Health Policy Reference Center provides a unique portal for identifying relevant health policy information and also ads considerable to Himmelfarb Library's full-text journal collection. More than half the 300+ full-text titles are new to the Library including the following peer reviewed journals: RAND Forum for Health Economics & Policy, New England Journal of Public Policy, Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, and Demographic Research from the Max Planck Institute.

The Health Policy Reference Center is published by EBSCO and the search interface will be familiar to users of some of our existing research databases including CINAHL, PsycINFO and SportDISCUS. To access full-text documents from your search results, you will see PDF and/or HTML full-text links, or you can click "Find it/Check for Availability" to search for a full-text article in the Library's collection.