Health Policy Reference Center

The Health Policy Reference Center provides one-stop access to a unique range of health policy resources, including trade journals, reports from organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Guttmacher Institute, and academic journals. The database also includes access to reports from US governmental agencies such as the Center for Disease Control (CDC), or legal/policy documents such as the US Congressional Record. Its greatest strength is its combination of diverse resources related to health policy, law, healthcare administration and delivery, and healthcare-related fields such as insurance and medical device manufacturing. The Health Policy Reference Center is the only database that contains this particular combination of subjects, and librarians whose patrons are interested in these topics will therefore probably want to consider subscribing. The search engine and interface have some idiosyncrasies which librarians will want to be aware of, but searches will generally return relevant documents from both gray and academic literature.