Society, Issues, Health, Health Policy
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- Center focusing on health services research, public health, health policy and the social sciences with a strong set of applied research and policy analysis initiatives.
- Committed to conducting health outreach to the chronically underserved as well as becoming recognized as a receptor site for multiple sources of assistance, including education, guidance, referral, and self-advocacy
- The HPPU at the University of Glasgow, led by Professor Ken Judge, undertakes health policy analysis and research about the effectiveness of interventions related to health inequality.
- News and analysis on health policy topics including managed care, Medicare, Social Security, universal health insurance coverage, and patients rights.
- Aims to establish a global network of 1,000 health information resource centres that will provide locally appropriate content on health issues. The project is intended to reinforce existing health services and education systems, not replace them.
- Massachusetts organization dedicated to making adequate and affordable health care accessible to everyone, regardless of income, social or economic status.
- International health education, policy research, and humanitarian assistance programs.
- Musings about the goings-on in American health care from a general health care consultant. Topics can include policy, health insurers, technology and eHealth, physicians, pharma and anything else that grips the author's fancy.
- This site provides information about Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Investigator Awards program, the investigators who have been funded through the program to conduct broad studies of the most challenging health policy issues facing America, and the res
- The Institute of Health Law Studies, based at the California Western School of Law, is a nonprofit organization performing research, advocacy, and community service to promote quality and safety in health care.
- The Center is a research institute that conducts analyses on gov't policies and programs.
- News and information on health policy issues, including Medicare, Medicaid, children's health, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, health care advertising, minority health, and health reform.
- The Health Policy collection covers topics such as Medicare, Medicaid, and tobacco control and includes research articles, case reports, reviews, and editorial commentary.
- Portal site for health policy information on the Web.
- Devoted to increasing public awareness of alternatives to the market system of health insurance in the United States through research, education, and grassroots outreach.
- A student-run interdisciplinary think tank dedicated to thoughtful discourse in health policy.
- Site that advocates against congressional legislation allowing Association Health Plans to take away current healthcare protections under state law.
- PROD is a database for health sector reform which has been developed as part of the Health and Family Welfare Programme in India supported by the European Commission.
- An independent, nonpartisan, statewide center that informs Ohio health policy by forecasting health trends, analyzing key health issues, and communicating current research to policymakers, state agencies, and other decision makers.
- Research and demonstration program designed to create changes in policy and practice that will improve the recruitment and retention of direct care staff across the spectrum of long-term care settings.
- Interdisciplinary research Institute focusing on local, state and national health care and policy issues.
- Comprehensive information on health issues, with a substantive section on child health, including documents, as well as links to numerous other child health sites.
- An association of national nonprofit health and human service organizations bound by a common concern for the effective delivery of health and human services to the American people, especially those in need.
- A healthcare policy research and management consulting firm.
- The ERIU is a Robert Wood Johnson-funded research group that studies the economic causes and consequences of lacking health insurance.
- Conducts research for the development, management and understanding of health improvement, outreach and promotion, as well as disease management, clinical outcomes and health policy analysis.
- A national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health and long-term care for all Americans.
- Health Systems Research, Inc. (HSR) is a public policy research and consulting firm that provides program and technical support to publicly-funded health and human services agencies, as well as to not-for-profit and philanthropic organizations. This site
- The Commonwealth Fund is a private nonpartisan foundation that supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy.
- The Council, based at Brandeis University, presents the findings of nationally-recognized health policy experts on emerging health policy issues, such as medicare reform, managed care regulation and the uninsured.
- Works toward advancing the level of debate as to what must be done to solve our growing crisis in health care.
- A grassroots, nonprofit membership organization that focuses on health care reform and farm policy.
- National non profit organization exclusively devoted to the analysis of health policy and related work site issues from the perspective of large employers.
- New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI) is a health policy research organization focused on enabling innovation in health care.
- A grass-roots organization for citizens who are concerned about healthcare issues and Pennsylvania medicine. It is organized by the Bucks County Physician Hospital Alliance in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
- Focuses on promoting health access at the local community level. Reports and fact sheets on the uninsured, as well as updates on their local projects.
- A non-profit organization that promotes preventive medicine, encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in research, and advocates broader access to medical services.
- California-based, non-profit consumer education and advocacy organization. Deals in insurance reform, healthcare reform, billing errors, and other issues.
- Research on health and health policy by RAND, a nonprofit public policy institute.
- CERT (The Campaign for Effective and Rational Treatment) is a patient-centred organisation set up in response to concerns raised by senior clinicians about access to, and the quality of treatment.
- Communications firm with a focus on health care issues. Site includes several free health-related e-newsletters.
- Studies that span the changes taking place in the health care system. Includes short-term policy projects as well as longer-term evaluations. Most evaluations also include a cost-effectiveness analysis.
- The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research applies the extensive expertise of faculty and researchers from UCLA's leading professional schools and academic departments to meet the needs of the nation, states, and local communities for health policy-relate
- The European Observatory on Health Care Systems supports comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the dynamics of health care systems in Europe.
- A detailed, revolutionary plan is presented by a medical doctor to reform the health-care system by restructuring medical education. The program would be individualized, cost free, and open to any motivated person.
- UK Network for people helping each other by sharing their experiences, ideas, knowledge, questions and skills on health related issues.
- Focuses on increasing the nation's capacity to provide effective and affordable elder care, and concentrates on the practice of health care as the point where policy becomes reality for every older American.
- Brings a family practice and primary care perspective to health policy deliberations.
- Background information and links on U.S. health policy.
- Information about legislation regarding birth certificates for parents of stillborn children and the 'MISSing Angels Bill'.
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