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Provides public and private health care leaders with relevant information. The Academy also serves as the national program office for four health policy initiatives funded through The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Focuses projects on the need for special attention to adolescents' reproductive health.
Promotes free, informed and responsible choices for all men and women with regard to sexual activity, reproduction and family formation
Aids journalists, elected officials, and
other professionals in understanding the roots of the nation's health care problems.
Multidisciplinary applied research, policy, evaluation, and grantmaking unit funded by the Packard Foundation.
Promotes high quality health care
services for low-income populations and people with chronic illnesses
and disabilities. CHCS directs four national initiatives of The Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation: Medicaid Managed Care, State Action for Oral Health
Access, Building Health Systems
for People with Chronic Illnesses, and Improving Asthma Care for
Children.
Seeks to make reproductive health and rights objectives integral to all relevant U.S. international population and health policies and programs and to find effective means of applying public health and human rights principles to health programs.
A research organization that seeks to improve the economic security of low-income families with children.
A non-profit legal and policy advocacy organization dedicated to promoting women's reproductive rights.
A feminist policy research and advocacy institution that provides information for state legislators.
A non-partisan research organization
and policy institute that conducts research and analysis on a range of government policy and
programs with an emphasis on those affecting low- and moderate-income people.
A national non-profit that Focuses attention on identifying new trends and emerging issues that will affect large numbers of America's children and on providing early analysis and strategies for action.
Works to improve
reproductive health around the world, with an emphasis on developing countries.
A unit within the National Conference of State Legislatures whose mission is to enhance
the capacity for informed decision-making and legislative leadership regarding the
financing, organization and delivery of health care services to low income and vulnerable
populations.
Provides a research library, discussion forums, listservs,
e-zines and links on issues such as reproductive health and rights, gender issues and
politics, population policy, international women's public health issues, and gender and
technology. Part of Harvard University.
Part of the University of Florida, the Institute seeks to research, evaluate, formulate, and advance health policies, programs, and systems that promote the health and well-being of children and youth in the state of Florida and nationally.
A non-profit organization funded to
develop creative and workable solutions to health system problems related to access, cost, and
quality.
Seeks to advance the understanding of key health policy issues and to advocate for health policies that will improve health and health care financing systems.
Addresses the financing, delivery, and quality of health services provided to
children.
A policy and research firm whose efforts focus on policies and programs in health care,
welfare, education, nutrition, employment, and early childhood development.
A project of the Kaiser Family Foundation that is designed to provide up-to-date information on reproductive and sexual health issues to journalists.
Disseminates information designed to assist states in the development of practical, innovative
solutions to complex health policy issues. The site has a CHIP Implementation Center and a
Medicaid Managed Care Resource Center.
Assists
businesses, purchasers, and providers of health care, as well as federal, state and local governments
through policy research, strategic planning, and analysis.
Charged with developing recommendations designed to bolster the nation's ability to track and prevent health problems linked to conditions in the environment.
Develops programs to
cover the development of health care facilities and all aspects of education for nurses, doctors,
engineers, and managers. Education initiatives include health promotion, disease prevention, health
care in the community, specialist hospital services, health care management, and policy. The Center
for Health Affairs provides objective research and policy analysis on both United States and
foreign health systems.
Analyzes choices and developments in
many areas, including healthcare--through a program area called RAND Health.
Many of RAND Health's projects address current policy concerns, but also work extensively on the scientific
basis for improving service delivery, system performance, and organizational effectiveness.
Provides up-to-date reproductive health information and is a service of JHPIEGO.
Published by Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, this website provides up-to-date summaries of research findings, program experience, and clinical guidelines related to key reproductive health topics, as well as analyses of policy and program implications.
Investigates social and economic problems confronting the nation and analyzes
efforts to solve these problems.
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