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.