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Community Health Nursing Resources
The resources on this page deal with Community Health Nursing topics, including Health Policy and Social Services.
Browse the reference sources and websites listed here to find definitions, ideas, information, and reference lists.
Community health is an enormous area. Try searching by specifying focused issues, populations, interventions, etc.
See the Government, Policy, Legal, and Elections guide and Social Work guides for more Social Policy and Social Services resources.
Health Policy
Adding the word "policy" in your searches is a simple but effective way to narrow down the results to a manageable level.
For example:
- Health Care Reform
- Medical Policy
- Poverty
- Urban Policy
- Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)An easy-to-use site containing information, publications, and statistics on just about any issue in the field of Community Health. Find your topic in the A-Z list at the top of the page. Their WONDER site is an easy-to-use system for finding statistics.
- Office of Minority HealthA good source for government documents and policy information on minorities. Look for data and statistics, health topics, and information on minority populations.
- Agency for Healthcare Research and QualityPart of HHS, this agency focuses on issues like quality, costs, outcomes, and patient safety in healthcare. See their sections on research findings, information on specific populations, and data.
- National Health Expenditure DataAnnual health spending in the U.S. by type of service and source of funding.
- Health, United StatesHealth, United States is an annual report on the health status of the nation. It contains detailed tables and charts on health status and its detriments, birth and death rates, life expectancy, health care resources, and much more. The site includes the report from 1975-Present.
- Health & Nutrition links at USA.govLinks to government information on a wide variety of health topics.
- Health & Medicine links at Science.govA list of links to government websites and publications related to health and medicine.
- Minnesota Department of HealthFind Minnesota-specific public health information and reports about diseases and conditions, minority and multicultural health, policy, and more.
- Minnesota Department of Health: PolicyInformation on Minnesota state health policy and data. Subjects include infectious disease reporting and the Maternal and Child Health Advisory Task Force. Also see statistics on births/deaths, diseases, managed care, and more.
Social Services Resources
- Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new windowSocial Services Abstracts focuses on current research in social services and welfare. These major areas include community and mental health services; crisis intervention; evaluation research; gerontology; policy, planning and forecasting; poverty and homelessness; violence: abuse and neglect.
Social Services Abstracts contains little to no full text, so use the
button to see if we have the full text elsewhere. - Encyclopedia of Social Work This link opens in a new windowThis superb resource, now online and continuously updated, is a great place to start investigating all aspects of social work: social policy and history, practice and interventions, social environments, key thinkers, and social conditions and challenges.
Look here for overviews and policy aspects of public health programs.
- PubMed Special Topics: Health DisparitiesThis most excellent site contains PubMed searches and other information resources on health disparities.
- Minnesota Department of HealthFind Minnesota-specific public health information and reports about diseases and conditions, minority and multicultural health, policy, and more.