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State newborn screening (NBS) programs for heritable diseases and conditions provide vital health information that enables prevention and early detection of rare genetic conditions. Information management of the screening laboratory test orders and the reporting of laboratory is substantial challenge based on a variety of factors. Advances in he

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services A Report on Infants and Children with HIV Infection in Foster Care November 14, 1989 PDF Version

In response to the growing opioid epidemic, HHS announced a three-pronged initiative in March 2015 to: (1) improve opioid prescribing practices; (2) increase access to naloxone for overdose management; and (3) expand medication-assisted treatment (MAT) to reduce opioid dependence. In support of the initiative, ASPE contracted with Mathematica Poli

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services High Service or High Privacy Assisted Living Facilities, Their Residents and Staff: Results from a National Survey Catherine Hawes and Charles D. PhillipsTexas A&M University System Health Science Center Miriam RoseMyers Research Institute November 2000 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Children with Severe Chronic Conditions on Medicaid Brian Burwell, William Crown, Ph.D., and John Drabek, Ph.D. The MEDSTAT Group November 1997 PDF Version (40 PDF pages)

The Department of Health and Human Services awarded a contract to launch a national initiative designed to improve recruitment and retention of direct care workers in the long-term care field. As part of this initiative, the Institute for the Future of Aging Services and the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute have identified a range of workforc

Simi Litval, Ph.D., and Jae Kennedy, M.A. World Institute on Disability Research and Training Center on Public Policy in Independent Living December 1991

This report provides a conceptual framework that describes how asset accumulation unfolds over an individual's lifetime and how the effects of such accumulation can best be understood within the context of the life course. The report identifies five factors that are important in understanding the low levels of asset accumulation among low-income

This report investigates the availability of data with which to construct a typology of homeless families with the hope that such a typology would foster a better understanding of these families' characteristics, service needs, interactions with human services systems, and the dynamics of their use of emergency shelter and other services and assis

The focus of this short analytic report differs in that it attempts to address, at least in an initial fashion, what types of assisted living facilities, among those in our sample, have characteristics that might be appealing to either consumers or policymakers focusing on consumers= needs. These analyses involved comparing the three groups of fac

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services A Study of Stroke Post-Acute Care Costs and Outcomes: Final Report Andrew Kramer, MD, Danielle Holthaus, BS, Glenn Goodrish, MS and Anne Epstein, PhD University of Colorado, Denver, Health Sciences Center December 28, 2006 PDF Version (225 PDF pages)

This report presents findings from a longitudinal analysis of child abuse reporting data spanning five years, derived from nine states' submissions to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System, known as NCANDS. The study focuses on the phenomena of "rereporting" which occurs when individual children have been the subject of more than one ma

This research brief, based on the National Survey of Adoptive Parents NSAP) and a comparison group drawn from the National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH), presents data of adopted children and all U.S. children on selected indicators of school performance and family relationship quality. Because the population of adopted children is not homog

This report draws lessons from 30 states’ implementation of existing optional Medicaid coverage for youth who age out of foster care and applies them to decisions and plans states will consider as they implement new ACA coverage that goes into effect in 2014. Wide variations in how states have implemented the so-called Chafee Option are focused