Master of Health Services Administration

 

The Master of Health Services Administration program is designed to meet the needs of health care professionals and others in health services support industries who wish to obtain the knowledge and skills needed to assume mid-level and executive level managerial positions in health services organizations.  The health services administration program prepares students to manage and direct the business aspects of healthcare. Specific careers for which this degree can help students prepare, as identified by the Accrediting Commission on Education for Health Services Administration (ACEHSA), include: hospital administrators, healthcare managers, managed healthcare plan coordinators, and administrators in short- and long-term care facilities.

http://www.strayer.edu/academic_step5.cfm?prog_id=4621EE37-BFAF-4E59-B3C4E06FBF6463F8

 

The Strayer University Library

 

The Strayer University Library offers resources in a variety of formats to support your classroom assignments and research including basic print collections of Circulating and Reference books, Periodicals and Newspapers. Reserve items include selected books, CD-ROMS and Directed Research Papers. Many other resources are available to you through the entire Strayer Library system, as well as extensive online resources. Tours and Orientation sessions about the LRC are also available, and if you have a question, don’t hesitate to ask!  Ask Your Librarian

http://studentserver.strayer.edu/CONT_STD/LIBS/libs2.htm

 

BOOKS

 

Strayer Library Online Public Access Catalog. The print resources owned by all campus LRCs can be located by title, author, subject, class code, and other indexes.  Circulating items may be requested for delivery from one campus to another through the LRC staff.

http://studentserver.strayer.edu/CONT_STD/LIBS/libs2.htm

 

University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH)

 

Strayer students and faculty can access the online catalog of over 400,000 volumes in the UAH Salmon Library and may borrow books directly from their collection.  Access is also available to their electronic book collection.  Access is limited to currently enrolled students and currently employed faculty. Note: Students please use your phone number + pin as your login ID. For example, if your phone number is 111-222-3333 and your pin is 9999, then your ID will be: 11122233339999.

http://libsys.uah.edu/strayer/

Faculty please contact your Campus Dean's Office for login ID information

 

ONLINE DATABASES

 

The Strayer University Library offers a number of electronic resources to complement the print materials available in the campus Learning Resources Centers (LRCs).  Some online databases are available only to students registered in a Strayer University class.  Most online databases can be accessed from either your home or office computer, while some of the databases are available only from computers at a campus.

 

Academic Search Premier


Academic Search Premier is a multi-discipline database. It provides abstracts and indexing for nearly 4,450 scholarly journals and contains full text for nearly 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. The database covers subjects such as social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. http://studentserver.strayer.edu/CONT_STD/LIBS/authen.htm


Journal List:

 http://www.epnet.com/maglists/maglist.htm

 

Business Source Premier

 

As the world’s largest full text business database, Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 3,800 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. See “Health Business” for Journal List: http://www.epnet.com/maglists/maglist.htm

 

Electric Library

 

Electric Library. A comprehensive reference tool including hundreds of popular magazines and scholarly journals in full text, dozens of current newspapers and news wires, thousands of televisions and radio transcripts (NPR, PBS, and ABC news programs, etc.) as well as thousands of photographs and maps. It provides searchable access to many U.S. and international news sources, including newspapers, wire services, and government transcripts (e.g. Congressional testimony). http://studentserver.strayer.edu/CONT_STD/LIBS/authen.htm

 

 

 

        

 

ASSOCIATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS

 

America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)

http://www.ahip.org/
A joint Web site reflecting the merger of these two associations who provide health insurance coverage for more than 200 million Americans. 

 

American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)

http://www.ache.org/
Publishers of the bimonthly publication Journal of Healthcare Management.                                           http://voyager.library.hbs.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v2=1&Search_Arg=ISSN+"1096-9012"&SL=None&Search_Code=CMD&CNT=25

American Group Management Association
http://www.amga.org/

AMGA advocates for the multi-specialty group practice model of health care delivery and for the patients served by medical groups

American Health Information Management Association
http://www.ahima.org/

American Heart Association http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1200000

American Hospital Association (AHA) http://www.aha.org/aha/index.jsp
http://www.aha.org

American Medical Informatics Association
http://www.amia.org/

American Medical Association (AMA)
Comprised primarily of physicians dedicated to addressing all issues concerning the nation's health status.                                                                                    http://www.ama-assn.org/

American Public Health Association (APHA)                                              http://www.apha.org/

Association of Schools of Public Health -- site of ASPH                             http://www.asph.org/

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
http://www.himss.org

Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations                    (JCAHO) On going initiatives and national library of healthcare indicators http://www.jcaho.org/

National Academy for State Health Policy  includes the Medicaid Managed Care Resource Center.                                                                                  http://www.nashp.org/ http://www.nashp.org/_docdisp_page.cfm?LID=72D40736-628C-11D6-BCF600A0CC558925

National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions                         includes a Search resource to help families find hospitals in their area, or hospitals with specific programs and services needed.                                    http://www.childrenshospitals.net/

National Association of Insurance Commissioners                                                        helps consumers with access to state insurance regulators and important consumer information.                                                                                                http://www.naic.org/

National Institutes of Health (NIH) http://www.nih.gov/
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Includes information specific to research contracts, including policies governing the submission of contract proposals. Sponsors of the

National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ and PubMed.                                                       http://lib.harvard.edu/e-resources/details/p/pubmedpi.html

National Coalition on Healthcare (NCHC)                                           http://www.nchc.org/
The Coalition sponsors conferences and publishes policy papers on health care topics such as citizens without healthcare, as well as the quality and cost of medical care.

Pan American Health Organization                                                            http://www.nchc.org/

World Health Organization (WHO)                                                        http://www.who.int/en/
United NationsConcerned with worldwide health, this site presents policy information, international healthcare statistics, and links to other international healthcare sites.

 

HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT

Included here are sites dedicated to financial, administrative, and health care industry topics.

IHPP's Health Policy Page Mega site with links to Health Policy, Health Finance and Management, Rural Health and Telemedicine, Health and Medical Publications                                                         http://www.gwu.edu/~ihpp/Hpolicy.html

The Health Care Financing Administration has been renamed The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Please click here to visit the new Website.
www.hcfa.gov/medicaid/medicaid.htm

State Children’s Insurance Program (SCHIP).                    http://www.hcfa.gov/init/children.htm                                                                    See this site for information on these programs as well as the

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA). http://www.hcfa.gov/hipaa/hipaahm.htm

Healthcare Administration http://www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/library/b_healthcare_administration.html

Alternative Health Care: Individual therapies are not listed in this pathfinder. Most of the sites referenced below will link you to individual therapies sites.

Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)
An organization for managers who are responsible for financial policy and practice in healthcare-related fields such as hospitals, managed care facilities, and insurance companies.                                                                      http://www.hfma.org/

Alternative Medicine Home Page Annotated links to sites http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/altm.html

MedWeb MedWeb's answer to alternative healthcare information. Wide ranging. http://www.medweb.emory.edu/medweb/

 

Health Statistics

Health, U.S.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Ref. RA407.3 .H42, published annually
National trends, statistics, and tables.

http://voyager.library.hbs.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v2=1&Search_Arg=ISSN+"0361-4468"&SL=None&Search_Code=CMD&CNT=25

 

FEDSTATS: Health                                                http://www.fedstats.gov/programs/health.html

 

International Health & National Health Care Systems http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/guide3.html

 

Internet Grateful Med Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, a mega-site with highest quality information.

 

National Center for Health Statistics site for tabulated state data and downloads of studies and reports.                                                                                           http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

 

National Library of Medicine Guide to Internet Discovery Tools for Health Professionals, Librarians, and Consumers                                                                      http://nnlm.gov/tools.html

World Health Organization http://www.who.int/en/

Library database (WHOLIS)
WHOLIS is the World Health Organization library database available on the web. WHOLIS indexes all WHO publications from 1948 onwards and articles from WHO-produced journals and technical documents from 1985 to the present. An on-site card catalogue provides access to the pre-1986 technical documents.

Library database (WHOLIS)

http://www.who.int/library/database/index.en.shtml

 

A guide to statistical information at WHO (WHOSIS)

http://www.who.int/research/en/

A guide to epidemiological and statistical information available from WHO. Most WHO technical programmes develop health-related epidemiological and statistical information which they make available on the WHO website. The WHOSIS will help you to find it.

 

WHOSIS

http://www3.who.int/whosis/menu.cfm

Burden of disease statistics    http://www3.who.int/whosis/menu.cfm?path=whosis,burden_statistics&language=english

WHO mortality database http://www3.who.int/whosis/menu.cfm?path=whosis,mort&language=english

Statistical annexes of the World Health Report                  http://www.who.int/whr/2002/annex/en/

Statistics by disease or condition                                     http://www3.who.int/whosis/menu.cfm

Health personnel http://www3.who.int/whosis/health_personnel/health_personnel.cfm?path=whosis,health_personnel&language=english

External sources for health-related statistical information http://www3.who.int/whosis/menu.cfm

 

United States Government

 

 

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR)
http://www.ahcpr.gov

Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.os.dhhs.gov

 

Documents Center (University of Michigan) The Documents Center is a central reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international. Its web pages are a reference and instructional tool for government, political science, statistical data, and news.  http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/index.html

 

FedWorld Information Network (NTIS)                                         http://www.fedworld.gov/

 

FirstGov On FirstGov.gov, you can search millions of web pages from federal and state governments, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. Most of these pages are not available on commercial websites. FirstGov has the most comprehensive search of government anywhere on the Internet.                                                  http://www.firstgov.gov/

 

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
http://www.fda.gov/

 

Government Information Locator Service (GILS)               http://www.usgs.gov/gils/index.html

 

Health Care Financing Administration (for Medicare and Medicaid)

http://www.hcfa.gov/

Medicare                                                                                               http://www.medicare.gov/

 

OTHER WEB RESOURCES IN HEALTH SERVICES

 

Center for Disease Control (CDC)                                                                 http://www.cdc.gov/

DisAbility.Gov Health includes Children, General Resources, Long-Term Services and Supports, Managed Care, Medicare and Medicaid, Minorities, Mental Health, Private Health Insurance, Specific Health Conditions and Disabilities, Substance Abuse, Women, Veterans, and Your Health Care Rights.                                       http://disability.gov/digov-public/public/DisplayPage.do%3fparentFolderId=500

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)                                                 http://www.epa.gov/

FEDWORLD -- starting point for governmental resources on the web  http://www.fedworld.gov/

Harvard School of Public Health                                                 http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/

Health on the Net Foundation
http://www.hon.ch
Created in 1995 by a not-for-profit International Swiss Organization

National Cancer Institute (NCI)                                                             http://www.nci.nih.gov/

National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine
http://nccam.nih.gov
Bibliographic citations from 1966 to the present related to complementary and alternative medicine.

NHeLP National Health Law Program, working for justice in health care for low-income people                                                                                                    http://www.healthlaw.org/

National Library of Medicine                                                                 http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)                         http://www.niehs.nih.gov/  

National Institutes of Health (NIH)                                                              http://www.nih.gov/

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)  http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/homepage.html

National Science Foundation (NSF)                                                           http://www.nsf.gov/

Office of Public Health and Science (Department of Health and Human Services) http://www.osophs.dhhs.gov/ophs/