The table below shows searches within key databases for scholarly published literature relevant to costs of primary health care. Where possible, links are provided containing pre-created searches to take you directly to database results.
Databases for scholarly information
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Embase |
Requires institutional subscription
Large online biomedical and pharmacological bibliographic database. |
Suggested searches:
More sensitive
(Exp Primary health care/ or primary health care.mp or general practitioner$.mp or general practice/ or community mental health.mp or community mental health center.mp or family medicine.mp or exp home care/) and ((cost* or economic* or fee or fees or price* or expenditure or budget or financial* or fund or funds or funding).mp. or exp economic aspect/))
More specific
(Exp Primary health care/ or primary health care.mp or general practitioner$.mp or general practice/) and (cost*.mp. or fee/ or economic*.sh.)
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Scopus
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Requires institutional subscription
Large online bibliographic database containing broad overview of global, interdisciplinary scientific information.
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Sensitive
(TITLE-ABS-KEY(primary care) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(primary health care) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(general practi*) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(community mental health service*) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(family practice) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(family medicine) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(family physician*) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(home care service*) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(community health service*) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(community health worker*) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(community pharmac*) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(preventive health service*)) AND (TITLE-ABS-KEY (cost) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(costs) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(economic*))
Specific
(TITLE-ABS-KEY(primary care) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(primary health care) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(general practi*) ) AND (TITLE-ABS-KEY (cost) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(costs))
For both, can limit e.g. to subject areas Medicine / Nursing / Social Sciences / Psychology / Health Professions.
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EconLit |
Requires institutional subscription
American Economic Association's source for economic research citations and abstracts. |
Suggested search terms to use:
(Primary care OR primary health care OR general practitioner OR general practitioners OR family practice OR family medicine OR family medical practice).mp. AND (cost* or price* or budget* or fund or funds or funding or spend* or expend* or pricing*).mp. |
IDEAS |
Free online
Research in Economics, RePEc, which includes bibliographic metadata from over 1,800 participating archives. |
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HSRProj - Health Services Research Projects in Progress Database |
Free online
Information about ongoing health services research and public health projects. |
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NICE Evidence Search |
Free online
UK Health Evidence site. |
Suggested searches
https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/search?q=primary+health+care+cost
https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/search?q=primary+care+cost
https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/search?q=family+medicine+cost
https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/search?q=general+practice+cost
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Health Systems Evidence |
Free online
Canadian repository of syntheses of research evidence about governance, financial and delivery arrangements within health systems, and about implementation strategies that can support change in health systems. |
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Google Scholar |
Free online
Searches published research (articles and books) worldwide |
Search for documents about costs and economic aspects of primary health care using the terms: (cost OR costs OR economic OR fund OR expenditure) AND (primary health care OR primary care OR family medicine OR general practitioner) |
Informit Health Collection |
Requires institutional subscription
Australian database covering health policy and services and the social, psychological, legal and ethical issues associated with health. Select all databases to cover all topics. |
Suggested terms for Advanced Search:
More sensitive
((cost OR costs OR economic OR fund OR expenditure)) AND ((Community health* OR Community mental health OR Community nurs* OR Community pharmac* OR Family medicine OR Family physician OR Family practice OR General practi* OR Health promotion OR health visit* OR Home based OR Home care OR Home health* OR Prevention program* OR Preventive care OR Preventive health OR Preventive service* OR “Primary care” OR Primary health))
More specific
(costs OR cost) AND (primary health OR general practice)
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Web of Science |
Requires institutional subscription.
Large database, containing information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. |
Suggested search
TOPIC: (cost OR costs OR economic OR fund OR expenditure) AND TOPIC: (primary health care OR primary care OR family medicine OR general practice OR preventive health)
Can refine by RESEARCH AREAS: ( HEALTH CARE SCIENCES SERVICES ) for more specific search |
The table below shows searches across producers of grey literature relevant to health economics, such as government agencies, research centres, health policy related organisations and health care provider organisations. Where possible, links are provided containing pre-created searches to take you directly to database results.
General Searching for grey literature
Selected Health Economics Journals
Learning More about Health Economics Information Resources
The National Library of Medicine (U.S.) provides a free online course on searching for Health Economics Information.
The Health Technology Assessment international (HTAi) Information Resources Group provides a free online resource ("vortal") including a section on how to search for Costs and economic evaluation information.
Last updated 02 February 2017