Health Policy

When looking for health policy resources use current information. With changing presidential administrations, health policy changes accordingly. As an undergraduate student, you may not read about policy on a daily basis so begin your reading early.

Rising Cost of Healthcare-Interview with Blue Cross of Southeastern Pennsylvania-2003 (NPR Real Audio)

Universal Coverage Healthcare- Interview with Physicians for a National Helath Care Program-2002 (NPR Real Audio) Advocating a single payer health insurance plan, but choice of provider is through a private system.

Economist Karen Davis advocates improving the existing health care system- 2002 (NPR Real Audio )

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Ethics

Dr. Arthur Caplan, Director of the Center for Bioethics and Trustee Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania- (NPR Real Audio) Discusses stem cell research.

Dr. Derek Bok interview- (NPR Real Audio) Among other topics he discusses the implications of drug companies giving money to medical schools.

Bioethics-University of Tennessee (video) Library of videos relating to bioethics.

Center for Biomedical Ethics-Georgetown University Medical Center (link) Tutorials in bioethics.

Ethics Updates (link) Euthanasia, abortion and bioethics.

Making End-of-Life Decisions (link)

Ethics Journal of the American Medical Association (link) Public Health Ethics. Clinical Cases with test questions.

Kennedy Institute of Ethics (link) Bioethics library.

Penn Center for Bioethics (link) Comprehensive website. Bioethics knowledge tool which includes all leading bioethical issues including stem cell research, abortion and AIDS.

MedEthEx (link) Cases presented on euthanasia, HIV, adolescent issues, and informed consent issues.

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Public Health Issues

SARS Reference (link) SARS timeline, virology, transmission, epidemiology, prevention, diagnostic tests and SARS treatment.

Looking Beyond SARS (link)

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Technology and Medicine

Medical Informatics Handbook (link)


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