Ithaca Free Clinic: Grant Writing
This guide was created for a 2009 course and has not been updated since.
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The IC Library has some resources specifically on Clinics, but you'll find the most recent and largest amount of relevant material under broader Subject Headings such as Community Health Services.
Clinics
Clinics--Planning
Clinics--United States--Design and construction
Community health services
Community health services--Administration
Community health services--Citizen participation
Community health services--Evaluation
Community health services--Planning
Community health services--United States
Community health services--United States--Evaluation
Ambulatory medical care
Ambulatory medical care--Finance
Ambulatory medical care--Quality control
Health facilities--Administration
Health facilities--Business management
Health facilities--Design and construction
Health facilities--Finance
Health facilities--Planning
Health facilities--Risk management
Health services accessibility
Health services accessibility--United States
Equality--Health aspects
Right to health care
Right to health care--United States
Poor--Medical care
Poor--Medical care--United States
Medically uninsured persons--Medical care--United States
Medically uninsured persons--United States
Medicaid
Medicaid fraud
Medicare
Medicare fraud
Malpractice
Malpractice--United States
Liability (Law)--United States
Public health--United States
Medical care--United States
Medical care, Cost of--United States
Medical care--United States--Cost control
Medical economics--United States
Medical policy--United States
National health insurance--United States
Insurance, Health--United States
Insurance, Health--economics--United States
Insurance, Health--Government policy--United States
Health care reform--United States
Patients--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States
Clinics
Clinics--Planning
Clinics--United States--Design and construction
Community health services
Community health services--Administration
Community health services--Citizen participation
Community health services--Evaluation
Community health services--Planning
Community health services--United States
Community health services--United States--Evaluation
Ambulatory medical care
Ambulatory medical care--Finance
Ambulatory medical care--Quality control
Health facilities--Administration
Health facilities--Business management
Health facilities--Design and construction
Health facilities--Finance
Health facilities--Planning
Health facilities--Risk management
Health services accessibility
Health services accessibility--United States
Equality--Health aspects
Right to health care
Right to health care--United States
Poor--Medical care
Poor--Medical care--United States
Medically uninsured persons--Medical care--United States
Medically uninsured persons--United States
Medicaid
Medicaid fraud
Medicare
Medicare fraud
Malpractice
Malpractice--United States
Liability (Law)--United States
Public health--United States
Medical care--United States
Medical care, Cost of--United States
Medical care--United States--Cost control
Medical economics--United States
Medical policy--United States
National health insurance--United States
Insurance, Health--United States
Insurance, Health--economics--United States
Insurance, Health--Government policy--United States
Health care reform--United States
Patients--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States
General OneFile :
Our most user friendly database for this topic. General OneFile uses "Ambulatory Care Facilities" for Clinics so begin with this Subject search. You'll find almost 6000 articles on this topic, but begin by browsing the "Related Topics" to get a sense of the more specific types of clinics that have their own Subject headings here. Then open the "Subdivisions" and look at all the more targeted subheadings such as "Buildings and facilities," Finance" "Innovations," "Laws," Management," "Planning," and "Services." The same sorts of options exist for "Community Health Services," "Medically Uninsured Persons," and "Medical Care"--with subheadings such as "Economic aspects" and "Finance"--and "Poor" with the subheading "Health aspects."
ProQuest Research Library :
Click "Continue" on the opening screen and at the search screen open the "More Sarch Options" tab on the lower left. In the Subjects slot try "Clinics" or combine "Clinics" and ""Health Care" or "Clinics" and "Uninsured People." Another approach would be to combine the Subject "Clinics" with the phrase "free clincs" in a Keyword slot.
CINAHL
My favorite of our Health & Medicine resources. At the home page click on the "CINAHL Headings" button just above the search slots. For Clinics CINHL uses instead "Community Health Centers," "Outpatient Service" or "Ambulatory Care Facilities." Search any of these In the Headings section and you will retrieve a list of hierarchical Headings on the left, showing you where your Heading fits in the scheme of things, and on the right it will offer you a selection of handy subheadings such as "Administration," "Economics," "Legislation and Jurisprudence," "Methods," and/or "Trends." To combine your Heading with one or more of these subheadings just check the box next to the subheading and then at the top of the page click the "Search Database" button next to the words "combine selections with or." This allows you to run nicely targeted searches without ever typing your terms into the home page search slots.
Alternatively, you can run a Keyword search in the regular slots on the phrase "free clinic*" (remember always to put a Keyword phrase in quotation marks; the asterisk--*--on the end of clinic is the truncation symbol in this database, allowing you to search "free clinic" and "free clinics" simultaneously.
LexisNexis Academic :
This is our best database for 100% full text national and local newspaper articles. You won't find the same depth of analysis here as in journal articles, but for recent stories about free clinics across the country this is an excellent resource.
Don't settle for the default General "Easy Search" but instead click the "News" tab. Change the default "Anywhere in article" search to the "In Headline & Lead Paragraph" option for better focus. And notice that the default "Sources" setting is "US Newspapers & Wires," whereas for this topic you may want to select "Major World Publications." Also note that the default date setting is "3 months" but that you can expand this up to 10 years (2 years works well for this topic). And finally be aware that when you retrieve a set of articles you can still add extra search terms in the "Search within results" slot on the upper right.
LexisNexis only offers Keyword searching, so you may want to use the truncation symbol: ! For example, searching "free clinic!" retrieves "free clinic" and "free clinics." But you may want a more targeted approach on these stories, such as--"free clinic!" and (uninsured or poor).
LexisNexis is also the IC Library's primary legal resource, so click on the "Legal" tab, which drops you into a search of Law Reviews, where you will find substantial analysis of legal/social issues. Since this is still a Keyword search of 100% full text, the best way to achieve some focus is to use the atleast command. For example, try searching--atleast7(clinic! and (medical or health)). The atleastX( ) command--note no spaces outside the parenthesis--requires that only articles which repeat your terms a specified number of times will be retrieved, on the principle that if an article mentions your terms 5 or 7 times then they are likely to be a central focus. Another example: atleast5(clinic! and uninsured and access).
SocINDEX with Full Text
Try this for more of a public policy approach to this topic. You might begin by combining the Subject "Health facilities" with the Keyword phrase "free clinic*." But this database is more concerned with access to medical care, so you'll do even better by combining the Subject "Medical care, cost of" with the Keywords--poor or uninsured.
Project Muse
A small database, but offering 100% full text from scholarly journals, and it allows Library of Congress Subject searching so any of the Subject Headings listed above for the IC Library may work here. This is also one of the databases providing full text access to the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Undeserved. Begin with a search on "Clinics" as a Subject (and check the "Articles only" box below to weed out all the book reviews). Or try "Community Health Services" as a Subject with "uninsured" as a Keyword.
Want More? Take a look at my top 21 database recommendations in Desert Island Databases. Or open the Library's drop-down menu of "Research Guides," each of which begins with database recommendations.
Our most user friendly database for this topic. General OneFile uses "Ambulatory Care Facilities" for Clinics so begin with this Subject search. You'll find almost 6000 articles on this topic, but begin by browsing the "Related Topics" to get a sense of the more specific types of clinics that have their own Subject headings here. Then open the "Subdivisions" and look at all the more targeted subheadings such as "Buildings and facilities," Finance" "Innovations," "Laws," Management," "Planning," and "Services." The same sorts of options exist for "Community Health Services," "Medically Uninsured Persons," and "Medical Care"--with subheadings such as "Economic aspects" and "Finance"--and "Poor" with the subheading "Health aspects."
ProQuest Research Library :
Click "Continue" on the opening screen and at the search screen open the "More Sarch Options" tab on the lower left. In the Subjects slot try "Clinics" or combine "Clinics" and ""Health Care" or "Clinics" and "Uninsured People." Another approach would be to combine the Subject "Clinics" with the phrase "free clincs" in a Keyword slot.
CINAHL
My favorite of our Health & Medicine resources. At the home page click on the "CINAHL Headings" button just above the search slots. For Clinics CINHL uses instead "Community Health Centers," "Outpatient Service" or "Ambulatory Care Facilities." Search any of these In the Headings section and you will retrieve a list of hierarchical Headings on the left, showing you where your Heading fits in the scheme of things, and on the right it will offer you a selection of handy subheadings such as "Administration," "Economics," "Legislation and Jurisprudence," "Methods," and/or "Trends." To combine your Heading with one or more of these subheadings just check the box next to the subheading and then at the top of the page click the "Search Database" button next to the words "combine selections with or." This allows you to run nicely targeted searches without ever typing your terms into the home page search slots.
Alternatively, you can run a Keyword search in the regular slots on the phrase "free clinic*" (remember always to put a Keyword phrase in quotation marks; the asterisk--*--on the end of clinic is the truncation symbol in this database, allowing you to search "free clinic" and "free clinics" simultaneously.
LexisNexis Academic :
This is our best database for 100% full text national and local newspaper articles. You won't find the same depth of analysis here as in journal articles, but for recent stories about free clinics across the country this is an excellent resource.
Don't settle for the default General "Easy Search" but instead click the "News" tab. Change the default "Anywhere in article" search to the "In Headline & Lead Paragraph" option for better focus. And notice that the default "Sources" setting is "US Newspapers & Wires," whereas for this topic you may want to select "Major World Publications." Also note that the default date setting is "3 months" but that you can expand this up to 10 years (2 years works well for this topic). And finally be aware that when you retrieve a set of articles you can still add extra search terms in the "Search within results" slot on the upper right.
LexisNexis only offers Keyword searching, so you may want to use the truncation symbol: ! For example, searching "free clinic!" retrieves "free clinic" and "free clinics." But you may want a more targeted approach on these stories, such as--"free clinic!" and (uninsured or poor).
LexisNexis is also the IC Library's primary legal resource, so click on the "Legal" tab, which drops you into a search of Law Reviews, where you will find substantial analysis of legal/social issues. Since this is still a Keyword search of 100% full text, the best way to achieve some focus is to use the atleast command. For example, try searching--atleast7(clinic! and (medical or health)). The atleastX( ) command--note no spaces outside the parenthesis--requires that only articles which repeat your terms a specified number of times will be retrieved, on the principle that if an article mentions your terms 5 or 7 times then they are likely to be a central focus. Another example: atleast5(clinic! and uninsured and access).
SocINDEX with Full Text
Try this for more of a public policy approach to this topic. You might begin by combining the Subject "Health facilities" with the Keyword phrase "free clinic*." But this database is more concerned with access to medical care, so you'll do even better by combining the Subject "Medical care, cost of" with the Keywords--poor or uninsured.
Project Muse
A small database, but offering 100% full text from scholarly journals, and it allows Library of Congress Subject searching so any of the Subject Headings listed above for the IC Library may work here. This is also one of the databases providing full text access to the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Undeserved. Begin with a search on "Clinics" as a Subject (and check the "Articles only" box below to weed out all the book reviews). Or try "Community Health Services" as a Subject with "uninsured" as a Keyword.
Want More? Take a look at my top 21 database recommendations in Desert Island Databases. Or open the Library's drop-down menu of "Research Guides," each of which begins with database recommendations.
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Most IC Libary databases contain only some full text. If the article you want is not availabe full text from the database you are searching, check below the citation for one of the images above. This is ArticleLinker and if available it will search a wide range of other IC Library databases, retrieving links to any full text it finds.
Looking for information about "clinics" on the Web unleashes a tidal wave of hits for weight loss clinics, fertility clinics, clinical trials, etc. Patience and targeting the most likely domains for quality resources--see Google Advanced below--will be helpful.
Also note: Most information about free clinics and networks of community health services will be found at the state level.
Also note: Most information about free clinics and networks of community health services will be found at the state level.
Google Advanced Search: When doing research on the Web, always use the Adanced Search version of Google. This not only provides more flexibility in entering search terms, but more importantly it allows you to target the Web domains that are likely to provide the most authoritative information.
Under "Need More Tools?" you will find the "Search within a site or domain" slot. You may enter only one domain at a time, but it's worth targeting each of the three domains likely to supply the best information: colleges and universities (enter the "edu" tag), nonprofit organizations (enter the "org" tag), and the United States government (enter the "gov" tag).
Under "Need More Tools?" you will find the "Search within a site or domain" slot. You may enter only one domain at a time, but it's worth targeting each of the three domains likely to supply the best information: colleges and universities (enter the "edu" tag), nonprofit organizations (enter the "org" tag), and the United States government (enter the "gov" tag).
Open Directory Project: Health Care Reform: Look in particular under "News & Media" and "Think Tanks."
Librarians' Internet Index:Health Insurance: The alphabetical listing of sites isn't helpful, but there are a few promising resources in this mix.
Librarians' Internet Index:Health Insurance: The alphabetical listing of sites isn't helpful, but there are a few promising resources in this mix.
Health Care: Issues and Groups: A comprehensive gateway to Web resources from Vanderbilt University.
Health Care: links to various think tanks and advocacy orgnaizations.
The Uninsured in America: from PBS.
Health Insurance: A range of reports from the U.S. Census.
Health Insurance Coverage: Statistics from the CDC.
National Association of Free Clinics: Take a look at the "Issues" section.
New York State Department of Health: Check both the "Current Issues" index on the left and the "Site Contents" on the right.
Ithaca Health Alliance: Free Clinic
Health Care: links to various think tanks and advocacy orgnaizations.
The Uninsured in America: from PBS.
Health Insurance: A range of reports from the U.S. Census.
Health Insurance Coverage: Statistics from the CDC.
National Association of Free Clinics: Take a look at the "Issues" section.
New York State Department of Health: Check both the "Current Issues" index on the left and the "Site Contents" on the right.
Ithaca Health Alliance: Free Clinic
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