Databases  |  Guidelines/Reports  |  Journals  |  Organizations  |  Reference Books & Tools  |  Software Resources  |  Statistics & Datasets  | Writing/Grant Resources

Databases

• CINAHL  (Ebsco) covers nursing,  nutrition, exercise, and physical therapy
• Cochrane Library systematic reviews and clinical trials
• DoPHER : Database of promoting health effectiveness reviews, collection of articles on interventions (free)
• Federal Register: daily reports on rules and notices from federal agencies (1994-present)
  
• Health Disparities Database: database from APHA and United Health Foundation programs (free)
• Health Evidence: reviews on interventions (requires free registration) (free)
• Health Reference Center - Academic covers fitness, medicine, nutrition, public health, and more.
• Intergovernmental organizations: google search engine
• Military & Government Collection (Ebsco)
• National CAHPS Benchmarking Database: Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems surveys from AHRQ (free)
  
• RAND Health publications: research reports on health, healthcare, education, and more from RAND (free)
• RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, over 500,000 publicatios
  
• Sociological Abstracts (CSA)

Guidelines/Reports

• General Accountability Office Reports & Testimonies: 1970-present
  
• Healthy People reports (free)
• Healthy People: Understanding and Improving Health
  • Volume 1: Focus Areas 1-14: (arthritis, cancer, kidney disease, diabetes, disability, environmental health, heart disease, HIV, immunization and infectious disease)
  • Volume 2: Focus Areas 15-28:  (injury and violence prevention, materal, infant, child health, mental health, nutrition and overweight, occupational safety, oral health, physical activity and fitness,respiratory diseases, STDs, substance abuse, tobacco use, vision and hearing)
• Informed Decisions Toolbox: finding and using management research evidence
  
• National Clearinghouse Guidelines: evidence based practice guidelines on variety of conditions and diseases, includes measures section

Journals

• American Journal of Public Health
• Behavioral health management
• BMC health services research
  
• Frontiers in health services management
  
• Group and organization management
  
• Health Affairs
• Health care management review
• Health care management science
• Health facilities management
  
• Health Management
• Health management technology
  
• Health Research Policy and Systems
• Healthcare Financial Management
  
• Home health care management and practice
• Hospital access management
• Hospital case management
• Hospital payment and information management
• Journal of behavioral health services & research
  
• Journal of cardiovascular management
  
• Journal of healthcare management
  
• Journal of Health Economics
• Journal of health and human services administration
  
• Journal of public health management and practice
• Marketing health services
  
• Medeconomics
• Occupational health management
• Patient care management
• Patient education management
• Quality management in health care
  
• Social Science & Medicine- Medical Economics
• Topics in health information management

Organizations

• Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research
  
• American Academy of Medical Administrators
  
• American Public Health Association, Health Administration section
• National Association of Health Services Executives
• National Association for Healthcare Quality

Reference Books & Tools

Health Policy, Economic, and Management

• Chief Elected Officials of Texas
• Declaration of Independence
  
• Directory of Health Organizations
• Handbook of Texas
• Health Services Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT)
  

Medical references

• AccessMedicine: from McGraw-Hill; includes Harrison's Online, Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, pharmaceutical index, guidelines, and more.
• Anatomy TV: no articles, interactive 3D anatomy reference resource includes sport injuries, MRIs, and more

• Books@Ovid  : Collection of full text medical, nursing, and pharmaceutical textbooks
• Directory of Health Organizations: free database on organizations from National Library of Medicine
• GIDEON (Ebsco): includes diagnosis symptom guide, epidemiology (maps of infectious diseases), drug therapy, and microbiology reference tools
• Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale):  a Medical encyclopedia, Drug & Herb Finder, Alternative Health Encyclopedia, Health Assessment Tools, Health Organization Directory, and more.
• LANGE educational library: Includes medical education resources for course study, self-assessment tool, and LANGE Case Files.
• MD Consult: provides e-books, patient education handouts, guidelines, images, and more
• Oxford English Dictionary: comprehensive dictionary of the English language
• StatRef 1: Collection of full text medical and pharmaceutical textbooks including the DSM IV.  Also provides a medical dictionary and medical calculators (click on the resources tab).
• StatRef 2 : Collection of full text pharmaceutical textbooks

Software Resources

Commercial Software

• S-Plus
• SAS Homepage
• STATA homepage

Free software

• EpiInfo: free software from CDC for creating and analyzing questionnaires/surveys
• R-Project: free software for statistical computing and graphics
  
• SABER: Statistical Analysis Battery for Epidemiological Research, free from CDC
• SETS: Statistical Export and Tabulation System, free from CDC
• StatLib software download software for various tasks

Statistics & Datasets

• Adolescent Health: stats on risk factors, access to health care, mortality, and more from CDC
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System: health risk behavior statistics from 1996-present
• CDC Wonder (variety of health topics)
• Child Health USA: statistics on children's health
• Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR): public use data sets from US Dept of Energy, environmental health, radiation, and more
  
• Current Population Survey (CPS) includes data on income, health insurance coverage, and more 
• Healthy People DATA 2010: data by focus area, data source, specific population group, and more
• Health Poll Search: interactive results from polls on health related issues
• Infant Health: stats on risk factors, access to health care, mortality, and more from CDC
• Men's Health: stats on risk factors, access to health care, mortality, and more from CDC
• Minority Health data from State Health Facts includes interactive tables, bar graphs, and maps
• Office of Minority Health & Health Disparities (OMHD) cultural specific pages (demographics, 10 leading causes of death, and more):
• African American
• American Indian & Alaska Native
• Asian American
• Hispanic or Latino
• Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
• Multiracial
• White
• U. S. Physical Activity Statistics from CDC
• Women's Health: stats on risk factors, access to health care, mortality, and more from CDC
• World Health Organization: data and statistics on health, and other issues around the world (interactive tables)

Writing/Grant Resources

Grant writing

• Craft of Grant Writing Workbook from TAMU Office of Proposal Development
• Columbia University's Guide to Grantmanship
• Environmental Protection Agency (tutorial)
• Foundation Center
• GrantWriters.com
  
• Logic Model Development Guide from Kellog Foundation
  
• National Science Foundation proposal and award policies
• Non-profit guides  grant writing tips for non-profit organizations
• Resources for National Institutes of Health from TAMU Office of Proposal Development
• Resources for Programs ton Enhance Diversity from TAMU Office of Proposal Development

Finding grants

General

• Community Foundation Locator from Council on Foundations
  
• COS Funding Opportunities (CSA)  Offers personal alerts and searching by keyword, geography, and sponsor
• Corporate Giving Database list of corporations
• Federal Register funding announcements from federal sources
  
• Funding Opportunities  list maintained by TAMU Office of Proposal Development
• Grants.gov  portal for government funding opportunities; direct application through site
  
• Grantsnet.org from American Association for the Advancement of Science (includes student support)
• National Science Foundation guide to programs and funding opportunities  general descriptions of programs for all National Science Foundation directorates.
• SPIN  database of grants from government and private sources.  Use the Advance Search options for best results. 
  
  

Health 

• CRISP Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects, database of federally funded biomedical research
• Funding Opportunities and Notices publication of National Institutes of Health's grant programs
  
• Fund Source tool for behavioral and social scientists
  
• Grants Alert grant notices for K-12 and higher education
• GrantsNet from U. S.  Dept of Health & Human Services
• National Center for Environmental Research grants on environmental health research from the EPA
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grants on a variety of health related topics
• Rural Assistance Center rural communitiy funding
• Women's Health grants from National Women's Health Information Center

Education  

• Braitmayer Foundation educational grants for K-12
• Grants & Fellowships from Chronicle of Higher Education
• Grants for teachers grants for K-12 teachers
• NEA foundation grants for teachers and faculty
• Premier Funding educational grants for K-12 using Premier's student agenda program
• School grants educational grants for K-12