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How We Will Accomplish Our Objective We will improve the quality of and access to health services for American Indian and Alaska Native people by: ensuring a supply of qualified, culturally competent health professionals with adequate facilities, equipment, supplies, and training.

There was no discussion among those we spoke to of any of the nursing home reform legislation being repealed, or any quality initiatives being at risk of termination due to budget cuts or other reasons. This lack of discussion or concern, combined with a generally positive attitude among the provider community about the quality initiatives, indica

The QA plan must include procedures for concurrent review of resident status, ongoing monitoring of resident status, handling and reporting of patient complaints, procedures for accidents and incidents, and procedures for implementing abuse and neglect regulations (e.g., family notification).

Rural communities are generally older populations and have higher rates of chronic conditions. 155 People in rural counties are more likely than their urban counterparts to face food insecurity (i.e., reports of problems regarding quality, variety, or desirability of diet or eating patterns) 156 which is associated with risks of diabetes and obe

As noted in Chapter I, this 2001 report uses data from the Annual March Demographic Supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS) to construct updated measures of some of the indicators that were based on data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) in prior year reports.  Specifically, the overall summary indicator of depe

Figure ECON 8. Percentage of Households Classified as Food Insecure: 1999 Source: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, ERS, calculations using data August 1998 CPS Food Security Supplement.

The Welfare Indicators Act challenges the Department of Health and Human Services to identify and set forth not only indicators of welfare dependence and welfare duration, but also predictors and causes of welfare receipt.  Up to this point, welfare research has not established clear and definitive causes of welfare dependence.  However, researc

Changes in dependence may or may not be associated with changes in the level of deprivation, depending on the alternative sources of support found by families who might otherwise be dependent on welfare.  To assess the social impacts of any change in dependence, changes in the level of poverty or deprivation also must be considered.  One way of

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the specific summary measures of welfare dependence proposed by the Advisory Board.  It also discusses summary measures of poverty, following the Board’s recommendation that dependence measures not be assessed in isolation from measures of deprivation.  Analysis of both measures is important be

Comparison of Interim Report Indicators and Annual Report Indicators and Risk Factors Note that the numbers in the first column are the indicators numbers used in the Interim Report . Interim # Interim Title New # New Title A.1

Household food insecurity, including (at a severe level) direct hunger among children in the household, is related to general income poverty and is expected to affect children’s health, cognitive and social development, and general school success. Figure ECON 9. Percentage of Households Classified as Food Insecure, 1995

The Welfare Indicators Act challenges the Department of Health and Human Services, and indirectly the Advisory Board on Welfare Indicators, to identify and set forth not only indicators of welfare dependence and welfare duration, but also predictors and causes of welfare receipt. Up to this point, welfare research has not established clear and def

Figure ECON 7. Percentage of Households Classified by Food Security Status: 2002 Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Household Food Security in the United States, 2002.

Changes in dependence may or may not be associated with changes in the level of deprivation, depending on the alternative sources of support found by families who might otherwise be dependent on welfare. To assess the social impacts of any change in dependence, changes in the level of poverty or deprivation also must be considered. One way of meas

The Welfare Indicators Act challenges the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to identify and set forth not only indicators of welfare dependence and welfare duration but also predictors and causes of welfare receipt. However, welfare research has not established clear and definitive causes of welfare dependence. Instead, it has identifie

by: Dan Bloom, Mary Farrell, and Barbara Fink with Diana Adams-Ciardullo Submitted to: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children & Families Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation Project Officer: Michael Dubinsky

Household food insecurity, including (at a severe level) direct hunger among children in the household, is related to general income poverty and is expected to affect children's health, cognitive and social development, and general school success. Figure ECON 9. Percentage of Households Classified as Food Insecure, 1995

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the specific summary measure of welfare dependence proposed by a bipartisan Advisory Board 1 and adopted for use in this annual report series. It also discusses summary measures of poverty, following the Advisory Board’s recommendation that dependence measures not be assessed in isolation from o

The Welfare Indicators Act challenges the Department of Health and Human Services, and indirectly the Advisory Board on Welfare Indicators, to identify and set forth not only indicators of the rate and degree welfare dependence and duration of welfare receipt, but also predictors of welfare receipt and causes of welfare receipt. The state of welfa

Measures of dependence may change for a number of different reasons, both positive and negative. As discussed earlier, the Advisory Board cautioned that measures of dependence should be presented in context -- that is, with some measure of the impacts of dependence changes on deprivation. Many different measures could again be used for that purpos