On-line publications and on-line publication indices
- Center
for Demography and Ecology Online Newsstand
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/library/news.htm
An index of newsletters, journals and other online news sources of
interest to CDE affiliates, including resources on population,
family planning and development, Uuniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
publications, and general news. Some sites require Adobe
Acrobat.
- Morbidity
& Mortality Weekly Report
http://www.cdc.gov/cgi-bin/mmwrsearch.pl
Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, published by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), contains information on
various health realted issues, including immunization, teen
pregnancy, and the cost of health care. This site contains an
search form to access all issues published since 1993, with
abstracts available on-line.
- RAND
Labor and Population Program Working Papers
http://www.rand.org/organization/drd/labor/dru.html
Abstracts of papers such as Long-Term Determinants of Supplemental
Health Insurance Coverage in the Medicare Population, Demand for
Prescription Drugs in the Medicare Population, Demographic and
Economic Correlates of Health in Old Age, Welfare Impacts of
Health Care User Fees: A Health-Valuation Approach to Analysis
with Imperfect Markets, Discrete Choice Estimation of
Price-Elasticities: The Benefits of a Flexible Behavioral Model of
Health Care, Does Supplemental Private Insurance Increase Medicare
Costs?, Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Health in Late Life,
Restrictions on Medicaid Funding of Abortion: Effects on Birth
Weight and Pregnancy Resolutions, Using Private Health Insurance
to Reduce and Better Target Public Expenditures, The Impact of
Regulation and Financial Incentives on Cost-of-Illness, Why Are
Not-for-Profit Nursing Homes More Costly?, etc.
- RAND
Health Sciences Program Publications
http://www.rand.org/organization/drd/health/healthpubs/pubindex.html
Lists of RAND's Health Care-Related Publications, sorted by
general topics which include "Quality and Appropriateness of Care"
and "Health Care Financing and Delivery". Some abstracts are
available on-line.
- NCHS
Publications and Published Data
http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/96pubs.htm
Publications and data published by the NCHS. Most are downloadable
in Acrobat format. Includes such topics as "Health, United States,
1994", "Trends in the Health of Older Americans: United States,
1994", "Data From the National Health Interview Survey", "Hospice
and Home Health Agency Characteristics", "Advance Data From Vital
and Health Statistics: Numbers 141-150", "Urban and Rural
Classification of National Health Provider, "Births, Marriages,
Divorces, and Deaths for August 1994. Vol. 43, No. 8.", "Years of
Healthy Life", "Evaluating Public Health Data Systems: A Practical
Approach. June 1995", "Vital Statistics of the United States,
"Health of an Aging America: 1994 bibliography. Bibliographies and
Data", and "Sources from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention/National Center for Health Statistics, No. 3".
- The
Electronic Policy Network http://epn.org
A consortiom of Public Policy Publications and Organizations,
including The American Prospect, The Russell Sage Foundation, etc.
Magazine Articles, information about organizations and
foundations, working papers, etc.
- Trilogy Available on your own
Computer!
Trilogy is a searchable on-line index of magazines published in
the past 15 years throughout the world. It contains far more
publications than Wilson does. Trilogy front-ends can be found in
the Databases folder of every Public Area Computer, and it can be
downloaded from the Software and Information Server as well.
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Course related questions should be addressed to Professor
Ellen Magenheim.