InfoGuides: ECON 4370/6370: Economics of Health Care: Databases

Health Economics in Health and Medical Databases

You will find health economics information within the key subject databases for health, medicine, and social work.

Use a line in your search which includes search terms similar to: "economic* OR cost OR costs OR financ*"
Subject headings in each database can be used to add precision to your searches. For example: Economics; Hospitals; Health Expenditures; Health Care Costs; Costs and Costs Analysis.
In Medline, the subheading /economics can also be used.

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
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An expanded version of the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health. Provides citations and abstracts for over 5,400 nursing journals, as well as books, conferences, software, and audiovisual material. Provides the full text for over 1,300 of those journals.
Format: Citations; some full-text via link resolver, Coverage: 1982 - present, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: 'Help' link on each screen. 'Styles of Citation' available under 'Help'., and Special Features: Browse list of publication titles.
Health Research Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Indexing and full text of tens of millions of sources valuable for nursing and allied health, healthcare administration, psychology, public health, consumer health, and medicine broadly.

Indexing of over 60 million sources and full text of over 20 million.
Sources include scholarly journal articles, books, vidoes, dissertations and theses, newspaper articles, conference proceedings, and more.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
More than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Social Work Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Designed specifically for social work issues, abstracts more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1966. Includes theory and practice.

Available to a maximum of 4 simultaneous users, so please close out after you're finished.
Format: Citations; some full-text via link resolver, Coverage: 1966-present, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use hyphens for subjects described with a phrase (i.e. family-violence). Clicking a link in the 'Narrow Results by Subject' adds the subject term to the previous search. Browsable help pages.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Indexes practical and research literature on sport related topics. Covered areas include biomechanics; coaching and administration; exercise physiology; sport law, history and medicine; physical therapy and more. Includes full text for more than 530 of the indexed journals.
Format: Citations; some full-text via link resolver, Coverage: 1830 - present (mostly 1975 forward), Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Search by keyword, author, or journal title. Supports Boolean search terms AND, OR, and NOT. Limits include English language, format (article, book, dissertation) and scholarly nature.

Economic Databases

Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
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Our most comprehensive coverage of business publications for management, marketing, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more, with not only academic journals, magazines, trade journals, book chapters, conference papers but also country-specific reports, industry profiles, market research reports, SWOT analyses, legal summaries, and CFRA industry surveys.

Unlike Business Source Complete, this version allows unrestricted access to Harvard Business Review (including removing restrictions to the top 500 articles) for course use, enabling linking, printing and downloading that was often unavailable in Business Source Complete. It also increases the number of active, non-OA full-text peer-reviewed journals from 970 to 1,519 and the number without any embargo from 473 to 966.
Format: Majority full-text; some additional full-text via link resolver, Coverage: Varies by title. Mostly mid90s - present., Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. May limit to full-text, scholarly journals, date, page length, publication name and type.
Economist This link opens in a new window
Full text access to the content of venerable British magazine The Economist on their website from 1997 to the very latest issue. Full text from 1988 up to *nearly* the current issue through Gale OneFile News.
Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory This link opens in a new window
1800+ academic journals and magazines, with full text of over 1100. A strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit bibliographic index.
OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window
Journals, books, and statistics from the Organization for Economic Development (OECD). Special emphasis on international economics, development and health; country economics, and agriculture. More than 45 different statistical databases, with internationational coverage.
Format: Full-text, Coverage: 1998 forward, Truncation and Wildcard: No and No, Search Tips: Can search by Title, Keyword, Author, Journal Title, and Year of publication. Quick find drop-down menus also give access to thematic arrangement of collection.

HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Fully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database with ongoing comprehensive coverage of U.S. statutory materials and more than 2,300 scholarly journals, all of the world’s constitutions, all U.S. treaties, federal regulations, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and access to the full text of federal case law.

Also includes specialized collections focused on:
- Criminal Justice & Criminology
- Early English Law
- Foregin Relations of the U.S.
- History of Supreme Court Nominations
- Gun Regulation in America
- JFK Assiassination
- Presidential Impeachments
- Slavery in America
- Texas Legal History
- Women and the Law
Westlaw This link opens in a new window
Westlaw simplifies your starting point for legal research. Try Westlaw's new interface for searching and accessing case law, US Code Annotated, statutes, court rules, regulations, and secondary sources including law reviews and journals as well as reference materials.