LibGuides v.2: HSM 4440: Health Policy and Politics: Websites

Health Services Research Resources

HEALTH POLICY

Commonwealth Fund - Information on health policy, health reform, policy improvement
Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) - Credible, non-partisan source of facts, information, and analysis
RAND COMPARE - COMPARE offers objective analyses of policy options currently being used, considered, or discussed by public and private policymakers
Robert Wood Johnson Foundatio n - Information about the programs they support to improve public health, access, quality of care, etc.

MINORITY HEALTH

Disparities Policy - Reports and policies to describe and address health disparities from the KFF
Office of Minority Health- Information and statistics about health disparities diseases that affect racial and ethnic minorities
Cancer Health Disparities - from the National Cancer Institute
Minority Health - from the CDC

FREE LEGAL WEB SOURCES

Researching United States Supreme Court Cases

Supreme Court of the United States: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

FindLaw: Supreme Court Opinions: http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html

LII – Legal Information Institute: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html

Researching Federal Cases

Federal Courts Finder: http://www.law.villanova.edu/Library/Research%20Guides/Federal%20Court%20Locator.aspx

Map of the Federal Judiciary: http://www.uscourts.gov/courtlinks/

Cornell’s LII Institute Recent Federal Opinions: http://www.law.cornell.edu/federal/opinions.html

Understanding the Federal Courts : http://www.uscourts.gov/FederalCourts.aspx

Researching States Cases

Cornell’s Law By Source – State: http://www.law.cornell.edu/states/listing.html

D’Angelo Law Library: State Law and Government: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/state.html

FindLaw: Cases and Codes: http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/#statelaw

Rutgers Law School NJ Courts Search: http://lawlibrary.rutgers.edu/libguide/

Researching Federal Statutes

Constitution of the United States: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/index.html

THOMAS Public Laws - 93rd Congress to present: http://thomas.loc.gov/bss/d111/d111laws.html

GPO Access Public Laws-104th Congress to present: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/plaws/index.html

Library of Congress’s U.S. Statutes at Large: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsl.html

United States Code on GPO Access: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/uscode/index.html

Cornell’s LII – US Code Collection: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/

Law Databases

The Public Library of Law: http://www.plol.org

Justia: http://www.justia.com/courts

Public.Resource.Org: http://public.resource.org/

Health Law Associations

The Hastings Center
An independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit bioethics research institute founded in 1969.
Penn Dep't of Medical Ethics & Health Policy
Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.
ABA's Health Law Section
This the voice of the national health law bar within the American Bar Assoc., with members representing clients in all segments of the health care industry: physicians, hospitals, managed care organizations, drug companies & device manufacturers.
Berman Institute of Bioethics
Established in 1995 at Johns Hopkins, he Berman Institute is now one of the largest centers of its kind in the world.
The Litigation Center of the AMA
The Litigation Center of the American Medical Association and the state medical societies is the voice of America's medical profession in legal proceedings around the country.

Website Resources

National Institute for Healthcare Reform

This organization is a nonprofit entity that specifically conducts health care policy research that impacts health care delivery in the United States and its management.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation''s RWJF DataHub

An information visualization tool and users can share, customize and search varied health statistics.

The MSU Extension Affordable Care Act Roadmap helps users understand their choices under the ACA and to make cogent selections for health insurance plans.

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)

This website surveys and analyzes legislation by state to identify issues impacting health care and health care agencies

The World Health Organization is an authoritative body for health within the United Nations, responsible for providing leadership on global health matters.

The Fogarty International Center is a research organization and the website has several rich aggregates of metadata on global health and global health policies.