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Healthcare Administration Research Guide

 

Databases

Contains journal, magazine and newspaper articles on a broad range of topics.

  • CINAHL Complete 

    This is the definitive research tool for nursing and allied health professionals. Fast and easy full-text access to top journals, evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons and more.

  • APA PsycArticles

    PsycARTICLES®, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present.

  • MEDLINE with Full Text 

    Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more. Beneficial for those in clinical care, public health and health policy development.

  • PubMed 

PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)

  • Science Direct

    Access is limited to open-access content.
    ScienceDirect provides access to scientific, technical, and medical research across diverse disciplines, including Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, and Social Sciences and Humanities.

  • SocINDEX

SocINDEX with Full Text covers a broad range of studies, including gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, religion, racial studies and social work. Contains full-text journals and informative abstracts for core coverage journals dating as far back as 1895, and extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers and other non-periodical content sources, and cited references

  • Business Source Complete 

    Full text articles and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals, dating back as far as 1886.

  • StatRef! 

    Premier healthcare e-resource for full-text titles, journals and evidence-based point-of-care authoritative resources. STAT!Ref provides the latest healthcare information in a customizable and convenient format.

Health Data and Statistics

"AHRQ, a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is dedicated to health services research, the field of study that examines healthcare as it is delivered to patients, examining the quality, safety, and affordability of healthcare delivery."

Data and statistics by topic.

"County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (CHR&R), a program of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, draws attention to why there are differences in health within and across communities. The program highlights policies and practices that can help everyone be as healthy as possible."

USAFacts exists to make government data easier to access and understand. 

WHO's annual World Health Statistics reports present the most recent health statistics for the WHO Member States


State and Local Health Statistics

"SC HealthViz is a website dedicated to providing geospatial analysis, health statistics, and innovative policy research. By providing geospatial analysis of health data, or GeoHealth, this site explores the geographic context that shapes outcomes and policies at local and regional levels."

The South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) is the health component of the agency formerly known as DHEC. The agency officially launched on July 1, 2024.​ While the name has changed, the commitment to protecting, promoting and improving the health and well-being of everyone in South Carolina is stronger than ever. 

 

The SCDHHS reports and statistics.