Meeting information and research needs of health policy students: overcoming the challenges

Abstract

Health policy is a diverse field that requires knowledge of databases and other sources of information outside the health field. Librarians are faced with a challenge of bringing awareness to these information sources for the benefit of researchers and students in the field. The purpose of this paper is to highlight some of the efforts undertaken by the author to assist students enrolled in the Health Policy and Management program at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in identifying health literature in nonhealth and medical databases.A review of the literature reveals that there is less focus on information needs of health policy students compared with information needs of nursing and (or) medical students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]