Historical Health Care Policy Research: Secondary Sources

Accounts and interpretations of events created by someone without first hand experience or knowledge.  The sources analyze, summarize, and interpret historical events, places, times, and/or persons using primary sources. 

Examples of Secondary Sources:

• Textbooks - World History: the human journey

• Monographs - The administrative state; a study of the political theory of American public administration

• Journal Articles - "The Politics of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health"

• Reviews - "Julie Rovner's Health Care Policy and Politics A to Z: a review"

• Theses and Dissertations - "Stability and change in health care politics"

• Biographies - Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale

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Learn the difference between primary and secondary sources with examples from the Minnesota Historical Society's collection.