Kilpatrick, A. O., & Johnson, J. A. (Eds.). (1999). Handbook of health administration and policy. New York: Marcel Dekker. (XRA 427 .H29 1999)

MacPherson, G. (Ed).(2002). Black's medical dictionary. London: A & C Black Publishers. Available in Xreferplus database. [Off-campus access]

Plunkett, J. W. (2000). Plunkett's health care industry almanac 2001-2002. Houston: Plunkett Research. (XRA 410.53 .P56 2001-2002 READY REFERENCE).

Shannon, J. B. (Ed.). (2000). Worldwide health sourcebook (1st ed.). Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics. (XRA 441 .W68 2000)

Stahl, M. (Ed.). (2004). Encyclopedia of health care management. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. (XRA 971 .E52 2004)

Wellner, A. (1998). Best of health: Demographics of health care consumers. Ithaca, NY: New Strategist Publications. (XRA 445 .W45 1998).

Using the library's online catalog, catalog usmai, search under a specific health topic or under the following subject headings (this list is NOT exhaustive):

Health services administration
Health facilities--administration
Health planning
Hospitals--administration
Medical care
Public health administration

Catalog USMAI [help]
Books, journals, government documents and other materials in the University System of Maryland, including UB. You may search up to six individual locations or the entire system.

Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts from Proquest) [on-campus]
Coverage 1861 – present. Indexes U.S., Canadian, British, and other European dissertations and theses; dissertations abstracted since 1980, theses abstracted since 1988. A 24 page preview of dissertations published since 1997 is available. The full text of dissertations may be obtained by clicking the free download button.

NetLibrary [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Varies. A collection of E-texts covering specifically chosen by Maryland Academic Libraries. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

WorldCat [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Varies. International database of collections (including books, journals , dissertations, documents, and other materials) held by libraries worldwide. Maryland libraries that own copies of the items display at the top of the list of libraries so you can easily determine if local libraries own the material needed. Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.

Health Source Plus (consumer edition) [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1990 - present. Searchable full-text for nearly 190 journals and abstracts and indexing for over 200 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Now includes Clinical Reference Systems and Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

Health Source Plus (nursing edition) [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1990 - present. Searchable full-text for nearly 580 journals and abstracts and indexing for over 615 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Now includes Clinical Reference Systems. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

Lexis-Nexis Academic [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1970 - present. Features full text of many newspapers and periodicals.  Also offers business news, legal materials such as federal & state codes, case law and legal journals.

Medline [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1966 – present. Indexes/abstracts more than 3,200 journals from the biomedical field.

New England Journal of Medicine [On campus]
Coverage: 1993 to present. Online access to a premier journal in the medical field.

Credo Reference [on campus]
Content available throughCredo Reference includes a wide range of general reference titles together with a large collection of subject-specific books spanning 20 topics, covering everything from the arts to astronomy, law to literature and science to Shakespeare.Contains a number of medical dictionaries and encyclopedias including Black's Medical Dictionary, Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary and Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary.

Association of University Programs in Health Administration. (n.d.). AUPHA. Retrieved November 2, 2004 from: http://www.aupha.org/.

From the AUPHA main menu, choose the "Links" button to find site listings for related organizations, government agencies, teaching resources, health-related resources and telemedicine resources.

Brandes, J. (2003). Health care administration on the WWW. Retrieved November 2, 2004 from: http://www.tsufl.edu/library/8/special/health.htm.

This basic hub site provides links to relevant site indexes, associations, government agencies, and publications.

Department of Health & Human Services. (2004). HHS agencies. Retrieved November 2, 2004 from: http://www.os.dhhs.gov/progorg/

Links to the biggest "players" such as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Food and Drug Administration; Health Care Financing Administration; National Institutes of Health; U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Healthcare Financial Management Association. (2004). HRMA: Healthcare financial management association . Retrieved November 2, 2004 from: http://www.hfma.org.

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