Bioethics
- American Journal of Bioethics Online
- Bioethics for Beginners
- Hastings Center for Bioethics
Dictionaries and Glossaries
- Health Policy Information Vocabulary
- Managed Care Key Terms and Concepts
Directories
- Directory of Health Organizations - National Library of Medicine
- Medlineplus Directories of Physicians and Health Care Facilities
- State and Local Health Departments
- US Federal Agencies Directory
International Health
- National Center for Infectious Diseases
- World Health Organization
Journal Indexes
- Pub Med
- Cochrane Library - for evidence on effectiveness of health care interventions
- Business Databases
Journal Home Pages
- Health Care Administration Journals accessible through the library
- Journal Web Sites (may charge for access to articles)
- Health Affairs
- Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
- Pub Med
- Milbank Quarterly
Links
- Agency for Health Care Research and Policy
- Hospice Association of America
- Yahoo! Health
Long Term Care
- ACHCA - professional society for nearly 6,000 administrators in long-term care
- Home-care online
Managed Care
- Managed Care Providers
- Managed Care Key Terms and Concepts
- Yahoo Managed Care
Medicare and Medicaid
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Medicaid Law: An Overview - includes links to the Federal Register
- Medicare Law: an Overview
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Quality
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Statistics
- National Center for Health Statistics
- State Health Facts from the Kaiser Family Foundation
- Globalhealthfacts.org from the Kaiser Family Foundation. This site provides statistics on diseases of global concern; statistics from countries, including health care expenditures per capita, mortality rates, birth rates, and population information. Data tables may be downloaded in tab-delimited text files.
- Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care in the United States - Click on the link to Current Atlases to see national and regional statistics on various aspects of the U.S. health care system
- National Survey of the Uninsured
- CIA World Fact Book
- Tablebase requires password
Health Care Management Resources