Business Research Guides 

Company Directories
articles in academic journals, newspapers etc.
Statistics, Surveys and Data
Professional Associations
Related Links at Yale and Beyond

Company Directories
AHA Guide to the Health Care Field Medical School Library, Reference Ref 12 RA981 A2 A55 Lists hospitals, healthcare systems, networks, alliances, health organizations, agencies, and providers. Listings include contact information, utilization data, and expenses.

Dun & Bradstreet Healthcare Reference Book SSL Reference Stacks HD9994 U52 D85 Sections on healthcare suppliers and healthcare providers.

Medical and Health Information Directory Medical School Library, Reference Ref 12 R118.4 U6 M4 Listings of contacts and descriptions by organization and agency, publications and electronic resources, and health services.

Medical and Healthcare Marketplace Guide Tip: use Orbis to access online version.

Reference USA Find public and private companies. Search by name, location, type of business, business size and any combination of these features.

Guidestar Information on nonprofit hospitals, medical centers, institutes and more

Articles in Academic Journals, Newspapers, etc.
Select list of databases for articles in academic journals, newspapers, and policy papers.

ABI Inform A comprehensive source of online journal articles that address finance, strategy, marketing, leadership, operations, public and nonprofit management.

American Medical Association Policy Finder Search policies by the American Medical Association.

Business and Company Resource Center Provides company profiles, rankings, investment reports etc. The industry search is by SIC (8000 for Health Services) or NAICS (446 and 62 for Health and Personal Care Stores and Health Care and Social Assistance).

Business Insights Includes international reports on healthcare, drug discovery and pharma outsourcing.

Business Source Complete A comprehensive source of online journal articles. Tip: Search for Healthcare Industry and narrow your results by subject.

CQ weekly Congressional Quarterly Weekly includes access to the full text of all articles published since 1983.

Econlit Produced by the American Economic Association, this database is the leading index of economic articles.

Factiva Full-text international, national and local newspapers, newswires, and TV news transcripts. InvestextPlus Includes brokerage and analyst reports, company financials and more.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Full-text news and information service that provides access to newspapers, magazines, transcripts, and financial information.

OneSource Search by company or industry. The healthcare industry is divided in biotechnology and drugs, healthcare facilities, and medical equipment and supplies.

PAIS Indexes public affairs literature including political, economic and social issues. Publications from more than 60 countries are included.

Policy Central Access to the National Journal, a major resource for politics and policy.

PubMed A service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health, PubMed provides access to bibliographic information from MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and HealthSTAR.

Reuters Health Includes Reuters Health industry briefing on pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries as well as articles on wellness and healthcare.

Scopus A comprehensive scientific, medical, technical and social science database.

Wall Street Transcript Interviews of Wall Street executives and corporate leaders, includes a healthcare section.

Statistics, Surveys and Data
Search Orbis for subject 'medical statistics', 'health surveys', or 'medical care - statistics'

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System(BRFSS) Telephone health survey system tracking health conditions and risk behavior in the United States since 1984.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Data and Statistics Scientific data, surveillance and health statistics.

Centers for Disease Control Wonder Single point of access to numerous CDC reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data.

Connecticut Health Data Hospital utilization data and more collected by the Office of Health Care Access.

Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Database by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Also try the On-line Query System healthcare datasets on national and regional statistics and trends.

Healthcare Financing Administration Administers Medicare, Medicaid and child health insurance programs.

Health Central (Surgeries) Estimated cost of numerous surgeries.

LexisNexis Statistical Searches, at the table level, U.S. Federal Government (1974-present), international intergovernmental (1983-present), state government and privately published documents (1981-present) that contain statistics.

National Centers for Health Statistics Annual report on major trends in the health of Americans in addition to 156 detailed data tables. Tip: the Center's home page includes many links to surveys and data.

Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage Click on the Industry look-up tab and select healthcare to retrieve the S&P Industry Surveys on healthcare.

StatCat Includes information about numeric datasets in the Yale Social Science Data Archive, data available to the Yale community from ICPSR, selected datasets available in the Yale University Library, and selected data sources on the Internet.

STAT-USA Economic, business and international trade information produced by the U.S. Federal Government.

Professional Associations
American Association of Health Plans Trade association representing 1,300 member companies.

American Medical Association Healthcare Financial Management Association Emphasis on financial practices in healthcare related fields.

National Coalition on Healthcare Nonprofit and non-partisan alliance established in 1990 with the goal to improve America's healthcare.

World Health Organization Policy information on worldwide health, international healthcare statistics and more.

Related Links at Yale and Beyond
Yale School of Medicine
Yale School of Public Health
Yale School of Management - MBA for Executives: Leadership in Healthcare

Yale Libraries:
Medical Library
Public Health Library
Government Documents & Information Center

New Haven Health A central repository for information about the public health of the greater New Haven area. Includes statistics, data and more.