Research blog assignment 2.3

Please find below a list of approved resources for your first blog assignment, Healthcare Systems Professional Blog. You are required to use and reference a minimum of 6 sources for full credit in the sources section of the rubric. Additionally, at least 4 (four) of your sources must be drawn from List 1 or List 2 .

REMEMBER, just because a resource is easily accessible to you online does not make the source a "website." In your references, you must cite each source appropriately: reports must be cited as reports; academic journal articles must be cited as such; and news articles must be cited as news articles. You are required to include dates in all of your reference citations ("n.d." is not acceptable).

List 1: Health Organizations, Research Centers, and Government Sources:

A minimum of 4 of your required 6 sources must be drawn from List 1 (this list) or List 2 (below).

· World Health Organization (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

· The Commonwealth Fund (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

· Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

· Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

· CIA World Factbook (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

· National Institutes of Health (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

· PEW Research Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

· The American Cancer Society (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

· American Hospital Association (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

· Children's Hospital Association (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

· National Center for Health Statistics (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

· Health Resources and Services Administration (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

· World Bank Group (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

· National Center for Biotechnology Information (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (you will find many useful academic journal articles through this site)

· United Nations Statistics Division - Health and Disability (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

· Gapminder  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (this website is useful for linking to a range of reputable health data to create graphics to support your work

List 2: Academic Journals (including, but not limited to):

A minimum of 4 of your required 6 sources must be drawn from List 1 (above) or List 2 (this list).

· Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)

· The New England Journal of Medicine

· The British Medical Journal

· Annals of Internal Medicine

· Lancet

· Journal articles available through the National Center for Biotechnology Information

News Sources:

A minimum of 4 of your required 6 sources must be drawn from List 1 or List 2 above.

The Associated Press (AP); Reuters; C-Span; British Broadcasting Company (BBC); Public Broadcasting Station (PBS); National Public Radio (NPR); The Washington Post; Vice News; Al Jazeera; The Guardian; The Atlantic; The Times of India; The Asahi Shimbun; Zaman; The Wall Street Journal; Dawn; The LA Times; Der Spiegel (Spiegel Online); The Economist; The New Yorker; Bloomberg; Foreign Affairs; TIME