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Health Care Administration Research Guide
An Introduction to Library Research Strategy
LOCATING BACKGROUND INFORMATION IN THE REFERENCE ROOM The Reference Room, located on the 1st floor of Ryan Library, contains materials such as health care and medical encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, directories, and bibliographies. These publications provide background information on health care administration and related topics including overviews, historical information, names of authorities or experts in the field and controversial issues within the field. By reading articles in encyclopedias and other reference books, you may get ideas for research paper topics as well as ideas for narrowing down a broad topic.
All books are located in the Ryan Library Reference Room unless otherwise stated. Note that some of these publications are kept on reserve. Reserve publications should be requested at the Main Desk in the first-floor lobby. (These books help you format the bibliography or list of "Works Cited" at the end of your term paper, as well as references within the paper) American Psychological Association. Publication manual of the
American Psychological Association. 5th ed. Amato, Carol J.The world's easiest guide to using the APA.
Westminster Calif. : Stargazer Publishing, 1995. How to Cite Information
From the World Wide Web (From the American Psychological
Association) For more resources go to Help: Citing Sources. AHA guide to the health care field. Healthcare Infosource,
Inc., c1997- Evaluating
Medical Information on the Internet (AARP)
The focus of this guide is primarily on health care administration sources. The library does own many clinical medical encyclopedias, however. Most of these books have call numbers ranging from 610 through 619. Browse this area for these additional clinical medicine resources. A few of these are noted below: Encyclopedia of complementary health practice. New York
: Springer Pub. Co., c1999.
Freudenheim, Ellen. Healthspeak : a complete dictionary of
America's healthcare system New York: Facts on
File, 1995. Goldstein, Arnold S.The Aspen dictionary of health care administration. Rockville,
Md.: Aspen Publishers, 1989. Joyce, Esperanza Villanueva. Say it in Spanish : a guide
for health care professionals. 1st ed. Philadelphia,
Pa.: Saunders, 1996. Medical Dictionary
of popular medical terms Rhea, Joseph C. The Facts on File dictionary of health care
management. New York, NY: Facts on File Publications, c1988. Rognehaugh, Richard. The managed health care dictionary. Gaithersburg,
Md.: Aspen Publishers, 1998. Slee, Vergil N. Health care terms. 3rd Comprehensive
ed. St. Paul, Mn.: Tringa Press, c1996. AHA guide to the health care field. Healthcare Infosource,
Inc., c1997- AMA Physician Select (Doctor
Finder) American Hospital Directory "Your
source for hospital financial information and utilization data" Complete book of medical schools. New York: Random House,
c2000- Finding a nursing home in New York State : a consumer directory. Albany,
NY : The Department, 1994. Finding
a Nursing Home in New York State (1998 updated directory). Health insurance sourcebook: basic information about managed care
organizations, traditional fee-for-service insurance, insurance
portablity and pre-existing conditions clauses, Medicare, Medicaid,
Social Security, and military health care, along with
information about insurance fraud. Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics,
c1997. HospitalLink - Hospital,
Healthcare System, Medical Center and Medical Group Web Sites HospitalWeb Westchester health and human services directory. 2nd
ed. Medical/Health
Sciences Libraries on the Web New York City : a basic guide to services and community resources. New
York, NY : Office of Information, Community Service Society of
New York, c1997. New York
State Physician Profile. Genetic engineering : a reference handbook. Santa Barbara,
Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1999. Kirkwood, Neville A. A hospital handbook on multiculturalism and
religion. Harrisburg, Pa. : Physicians' desk reference : PDR. Oradell, NJ : Medical
Economics Co.
AAMC - Association of American Medical
Colleges
American Hospital Association. Hospital statistics. Chicago,
American Hospital Association. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(US) Databook : Westchester County, New York. White Plains,
NY : The County, 1996- Disease Outbreak News (World
Health Organization) Health Care Annual:
Data on Hospitals and Ambulatory Care Facilities in New York City, The National Center for Health Statistics
Home Page National Center for Health Statistics (US) Where
to write for vital records : births, deaths, marriages,and divorces.
US Dept. of Health and Human Services. New
York City Community Health Atlas (United Hospital Fund of New York) Public health sourcebook : basic information about government
health agencies ... Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics,
c1998. STATISTICAL RESOURCES ON
THE WEB/HEALTH (University of Michigan Documents United States. Bureau of the Census. Statistical abstract of the
United States. Washington, DC : US Dept. of Commerce, Bureau
of the Census. Yahoo!
Directory Health >:Statistics Health professions career and education directory. Chicago,
IL : American Medical Association, c2000- Opportunities in business management careers (1991). CALL
NUMBER: 331.7 P 697 Disease Outbreak News (World
Health Organization) Worldwide health sourcebook: basic information about global health
issues, including malnutrition, reproductive health, disease
dispersion and prevention... Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 2000.
Find Books in the ORION Online Catalog (ORION SEARCH) To access ORION, click on the ORION link above or go to
any of the Libraries' homepage and click "Find
Books and Multimedia" under Research Tools. Then choose "Basic
Search" or one of the other categories listed. Books Ignore initial articles "a" "an" and "the" (and foreign language equivalents)
when searching by title. For example, if the title of a book is "A
History of health care administration", you would type "history
of health care administration" in the search box.
While searching ORION you will probably notice that many of the books
on your topic have similar call numbers. It may also be helpful to browse
the library shelves under these frequently used call number areas. Below
are just a few call number areas you may wish to browse. Books
with call numbers listed below may be found in the Reference Room,
1st floor; and also in the 3rd floor South Wing.
When searching ORION by "subject" search, you must use topics listed in the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Headings beginning with "Health", "Medical care", etc. Below are just
a few examples of terms which may be used as subject headings.
Terms indicating professionals in the field. For example:
Names of people (in format lastname firstname; you may input lastname
alone if it is distinctive)
Issues of interest in health care. For example:
Return to Top of Page Find Journal Articles in Electronic Databases Need articles from journals, magazines or newspapers? Iona College Libraries provides access to literally millions of articles in our subscription electronic databases. Frequently, these databases provide the full-text and often full-image for these articles. Periodicals included in our databases are high-quality reputable publications which are also published in paper copy. For a complete listing of electronic datasbases for Healthcare Administration see: http://www.iona.edu/library/online/databases/health.htm ABI/INFORM Global (via ProQuest) includes the full-text/ full-image for many articles from health care administration and other business journals and periodicals Business Source Elite (via ProQuest) is another database which provides full-text/full-image for many articles from health care administration journals as well as other business journals and periodicals. Health & Wellness Resource Center (Infotrac). This database includes the full-text of many journal articles. It also includes the full-text of reference books and an Alternative Health Module. PubMed (includes MEDLINE) is the most comprehensive electronic database in the field of medicine. It's emphasis is on clinical medicine and health. It contains abstracts of articles published in scholarly medical journals, with some links to full-text. CQ Researcher provides the full-text of the print periodical "CQ Researcher" issued by Congressional Quarterly, Inc. An excellent full-text source of articles on a variety of current events and controversial issues, especially those dealt with by Congress. In "Quick Search" box, try typing in words such as "health", "medical", "medicine", "managed care", "health insurance", etc. Other helpful databases you may wish to consult include: Locating Individual Journal Titles through the Library From the library's homepage click on "Find Journal Articles & E-Resources," then on "Access articles from a specific Journal Title" under the "Know the Name of a Journal?" section. Type the name of the journal, magazine, or newspaper in the space provided. The results will indicate if the title is available (in electronic OR print) and years it is available. If a journal is available in "Iona College Libraries Print/Microform Collection" click the link to see which years the journal is available in print. In Ryan Library, current print periodicals are located in the Reference Room. Earlier periodicals are bound and located in the Periodicals Room. Computer Science, Mass Communication, and Education periodicals are housed at the Helen Arrigoni Library. Print Article Indexes
WEB STARTING POINTS FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION The following web "megasites" are good starting points for obtaining health care information:
For more sites, click HERE FastCounter by bCentral Prepared by Adrienne Franco, Reference Librarian (September
2004 UPDATE; originally created 9/98)
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