NU 415: Leadership, Finance, and Health Care Policy in Nursing Resources

Contains single-themed, in-depth reports on controversial issues including introductory overview, background, current situation, pro and con statements, and bibliography. Helpful for choosing a topic or starting research. Content: All full-text.

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services agency.

The Office of Rural Health Policy (in the Dept of Health and Human Services) helps shape U.S. rural health policy in a variety of ways.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a report, Americans Speak on Health Reform: Report on Health Care Community Discussions. It reports on Americans who hosted and participated in Health Care Community Discussions across the country a

Nursing human resources policies, research, news, helpful links, etc.

Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for promoting health and preventing disease. US Office of Disease and Health Promotion- Health & Human Services

Kaiser is a non-profit organization focusing on national health issues, as well as the U.S. role in global health policy. Unlike grant-making foundations, Kaiser develops and runs its own policy analysis, journalism and communications programs, sometimes in partnership with major news organizations. We serve as a non-partisan source of facts, analysis and journalism for policymakers, the media, the health policy community and the public. Our product is information, always provided free of charge — from the most sophisticated policy research, to basic facts and numbers, to in depth health policy news coverage provided by our news service, KHN, to information young people can use to improve their health or the general public can use to understand the health reform law.

WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.