Web-based resources for retrieving health policy information: NLM and beyond

Abstract

This paper identifies Web-based resources of interest to the health policy community. Both information useful for developing health policy and information about existing health policy are included. Resources described are classified into three major categories: traditional and grey literature, statistical and epidemiological data, and legal and legislative material. National Library of Medicine (NLM) AND SEARCH ENGINESHealth policy information knowledge bases and search engines generally may be classified into three major categories: traditional and grey literature, statistical and epidemiological data, and legal and legislative material. However, there is much overlap among these categories. Many of the sources included below provide more than one type of information, but for brevity's sake, they are discussed in only one section. LITERATURENLM has long been a leader in providing access to peer-reviewed literature through its MEDLINE bibliographic database.* MEDLINE covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. It contains bibliographic citations (e.g., authors, title, journal reference) and author abstracts from over 3,800 biomedical journals published in the US and 70 foreign countries and includes over 9 million records on what services are covered for its members than those the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) might cover for Medicare or Medicaid beneficiaries. For purposes of this presentation, both governmental and organizational health policy information are considered. *Additional information on MEDLINE and all the NLM products and services described here may be accessed at http://www.nlm.nih.gov.

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“…11 PubMed database is an electronic library of biomedical publications, 12 which includes the Medline library 13 and the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus. 14 The PubMed is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information 15 and the National Library of Medicine, 16 which in turn are part of the US National Institutes of Health. 17 MEDLINE search strategies are based on subject headings or text words that are complemented by specific subject terms to provide an accurate search.…”