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Asset Building over the Life Course
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 households and places those factors within the…
Effects of Holding Assets on Social and Economic Outcomes of Families: A Review of Theory and Evidence
Poor Finances: Assets and Low-Income Households The Effects of Holding Assets on Social and Economic Outcomes of Families: A Review of Theory and Evidence November 2008 By: Robert Lerman and Signe-Mary McKernan The Urban Institute
Asset Building over the Life Course
Poor Finances: Assets and Low-Income Households Asset Building over the Life Course Final Report By: Mark R. Rank Center for Social Development Washington University in Saint Louis November 2008
Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP), Fiscal Year 2010
Federal Financial Participation in State Assistance Expenditures; Federal Matching Shares for Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program, and Aid to Needy Aged, Blind, or Disabled Persons for October 1, 2009 Through September 30, 2010 Federal Register: November 26, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 229) [Page 72051-72053]From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov][…
Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP), Fiscal Year 2010
The Federal Medical Assistance Percentages and Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages are calculated pursuant to the Social Security Act (the Act). These percentages will be effective from October 1 through September 30 of the indicated year. The "Federal Medical Assistance Percentages" and "Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages" are used in determining the amount of Federal…
Refugee Economic Self-Sufficiency: An Exploratory Study of Approaches Used in Office of Refugee Resettlement Programs
The purpose of this exploratory study was to learn what factors and approaches utilized by Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) programs contribute to refugee economic self-sufficiency. The issue of whether these approaches were applicable to mainstream welfare-to-work programs was also addressed. Methods used to obtain information included a literature review, discussions with a convenience…
Refugee Economic Self-Sufficiency: An Exploratory Study of Approaches Used in Office of Refugee Resettlement Programs
Refugee Economic Self-Sufficiency: An Exploratory Study of Approaches Used in Office of Refugee Resettlement Programs Prepared for:U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Prepared by: Peggy Halpern, Ph.D. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation November, 2008
Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Effects on Sexual Activity Among Adolescents and Young Adults
The link between growing up outside of an intact family, and the likelihood of engaging in risky sexual behaviors as an adolescent has been explored extensively. But fewer studies examine the age of onset of sexual activity and the likelihood of risky sexual behaviors among adolescents within intact families, specifically married-parent families, and which elements of married-parent families…
Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Effects on Sexual Activity Among Adolescents and Young Adults
Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Effects on Sexual Activity Among Adolescents and Young Adults November 2008 Prepared for:Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Prepared by: Kelleen Kaye NORC at the University of Chicago
NAPA Public Comment Attachment: A Guide for GPs
This PDF was submitted as an attachment to a Public Comment sent to the Advisory Council on Alzheimer's Research, Care, and Services and/or the National Alzheimer's Project Act website. The opinions and views expressed in this PDF are those of the authors and the person who submitted it. They do not necessarily reflect the views of any federal agency involved in the National Alzheimer's Project…
The Underserved and Health Information Technology: Issues and Opportunities
Prepared by: Adil Moiduddin Jonathan Moore Prepared for:Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Literature Review
A Literature Review: Psychiatric Boarding
This literature review explores the relevant literature on several key questions regarding boarding of psychiatric patients in the emergency department (ED). Is psychiatric boarding a problem? What are the reasons for boarding psychiatric patients? What kind of care is received while patients are boarded? Our review of the literature will delve into these questions as well as the impact of…
Literature Review
A Literature Review: Psychiatric Boarding
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services A Literature Review: Psychiatric Boarding David Bender, Nalini Pande and Michael Ludwig The Lewin Group October 29, 2008 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2008/PsyBdLR.pdf (30 PDF pages)
American Community Survey: New Survey Questions Enable Measurement of Marital Transitions
ASPE RESEARCH BRIEF American Community Survey: New Survey Questions Enable Measurement of Marital Transitions October 2008 This Research Brief is available on the Internet at:http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/09/MarriageDivorceStats/ACSBrief/rb.shtml
Home Modifications: Use, Cost, and Interactions with Functioning Among Near-elderly and Older Adults
This report analyzes new data from an experimental module to the 2006 Health and Retirement Study on assistive home features for near-elderly and older adults. In 2006, two-thirds of the population born in 1953 or earlier (ages 52 and older) had one or more assistive home features, about one-third added at least one of these features, and 40% used at least one feature in the last 30 days. The…
Home Modifications: Use, Cost, and Interactions with Functioning Among Near-elderly and Older Adults
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Home Modifications: Use, Cost, and Interactions with Functioning Among Near-elderly and Older Adults
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Adopted Children with Special Health Care Needs: Characteristics, Health, and Health Care by Adoption Type
This research brief presents information on adopted children with special health care needs,1 using data from the 2005-2006 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS-CSHCN).