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Do Mandatory Welfare-to-Work Programs Affect the Well-Being of Children?
Prepared for:U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesAdministration for Children and FamiliesOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
A National Strategy to Prevent Teen Pregnancy: Annual Report 1999-2000
IntroductionIn this 1999-2000 Annual Report, after three years of a National Strategy to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is pleased to report that teen pregnancy and birth rates in this country have declined to record low levels.
Further Progress, Persistent Constraints: Findings From a Second Survey of the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program
By: Irma Perez-Johnson Alan Hershey Jeanne Bellotti
Consumer Protection in Private Health Insurance: The Role of Consumer Complaints
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Health Insurance
Report to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by Sharon Willcox Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy This report is submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services in response to the Task Order “Consumer Protection in Private Insurance: State Implementation and Enforcement Experience” Contract No. HHS-100-97-0005.
Reasons for Measuring Poverty in the United States in the Context of Public Policy — A Historical Review, 1916-1995
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Poverty Measures
The views expressed in this paper are those of the authorand do not represent the position of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. August 1999, revised June 2000
Report to the Congress on Kinship Foster Care
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Adoption & Foster Care
The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 directed the Secretary of HHS to develop this report to Congress. This report was prepared with the input of the Advisory Panel on Kinship Care which met in October 1998 and January 1999. The report has two parts.
Cost-Effectiveness of Home and Community-Based Long-Term Care Services
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Residents Leaving Assisted Living: Descriptive and Analytic Results from a National Survey
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Residents Leaving Assisted Living: Descriptive and Analytic Results From a National Survey
Evaluation of the District of Columbia's Demonstration Program,Managed Care System for Special Needs Children: Final Report
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Evaluation of the District of Columbia's Demonstration Program, "Managed Care System for Disabled and Special Needs Children": Final Report
Teen Risk-Taking: A Statistical Portrait
Teen Risk-Taking: A Statistical Portrait by Laura Duberstein Lindberg Scott Boggess Laura Porter Sean Williams June 2000
National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies: Evaluating Alternative Welfare-to-Work Approaches: Two-Year Impacts for Eleven Programs: Executive Summary
National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies Evaluating Alternative Welfare-to-Work Approaches: Two-Year Impacts for Eleven Programs Executive Summary Prepared for:U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesAdministration for Children and Families
A Survey of Employers Offering Group Long-Term Care Insurance to Their Employees - Executive Summary
Steven Lutzky, John Corea, and Lisa Alecxih
A Survey of Employers Offering Group Long-Term Care Insurance to Their Employees
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services A Survey of Employers Offering Group Long-Term Care Insurance to Their Employees Final Report
Child Care Quality: Does It Matter and Does It Need to be Improved? (Full Report)
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Child Care
Deborah Lowe Vandell Educational Sciences Institute for Research on Poverty University of WisconsinMadison Barbara Wolfe1
State Estimates of Uninsured Children, January 1998. Final Report.
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Child Welfare
By: Allen L. Schirm John L. Czajka May 17, 2000
Minutes of the Technical Assistance Workshop, May 3-5, 2000
This technical assistance workshop was the third in a series of technical assistance workshops hosted by the Chapin Hall Center for Children for participating states in the Child Indicators Initiative. The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, sponsors the Advancing States Child Indicator Initiatives Project.
Post-Acute Care Issues for Medicare: Interviews with Provider and Consumer Groups, and Researchers and Policy Analysts
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Child Care Quality: Does It Matter and Does It Need to be Improved?
Child Care Quality: Does it Matter and Does It Need to be Improved? Executive Summary
Medicare+Choice: Payment and Service Areas
The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 included a number of changes to Medicare managed care. The newly created Medicare+Choice program differs from its predecessor with regard to payment policies, enrollment and disenrollment policies, and the types of plans that can contract to provide care to Medicare beneficiaries.
Post-Acute Care Issues for Medicare: Interviews with Provider and Consumer Groups, and Researchers and Policy Analysts
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Post-Acute Care & Services
Widespread interest in Medicare post-acute care issues, particularly after the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) passed, prompted DALTCP to sponsor an "early indication" qualitative study of the potential effects of the BBA provisions and other related issues.
Employer Decision Making Regarding Health Insurance
Summaries of Meetings Held with Senior Corporate Managers on Private Employer Strategies and Issues Affecting Health Care Coverage
Assessment of Major Federal Data Sets for Analyses of Hispanic and Asian or Pacific Islander Subgroups and Native Americans: Inventory of Selected Existing Federal Databases
By: Joseph Waksberg Daniel Levine David Marker Submitted to:U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Action Against Asthma: A Strategic Plan for the Department of Health and Human Services
PrologueWe are facing an asthma epidemic. Through newspaper stories and personal experiences, we hear more about asthma every day. A child at school has an asthma attack in the classroom. The radio reports an air pollution alert, warning anyone with breathing problems to stay indoors. The local school board debates a policy on students carrying inhaler medications.
Post-Acute Care Issues for Medicare: Interviews with Provider and Consumer Groups, and Researchers and Policy Analysts
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Effects of Trigger Events on Changes in Children's Health Insurance Coverage
Changes in children's health insurance coverage occur with far greater frequency than the modest year-to-year changes in the proportion uninsured or the proportion with different types of coverage would suggest.
Effects of Trigger Events on Changes in Children's Health Insurance Coverage
This report examines the role of "trigger events" — primarily changes in the family economic situation or family composition — in bringing about these changes in health insurance coverage. In short, we ask whether there are other changes in the family that may explain the occurrence of these changes in coverage or their timing.
The Effects of Trigger Events on Changes in Children's Health Insurance Coverage
By: John L. Czajka Cara Olsen Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Washington, D.C. April 18, 2000 Submitted to:Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Welfare Leavers and Medicaid Dynamics: Five States in 1995
By Marilyn Ellwood & Carol Irvin Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. 50 Church Street, Fourth Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 April 14, 2000
The Use of Nursing Home and Assisted Living Facilities Among Privately Insured and Non-Privately Insured Disabled Elders
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Prescription Drug Coverage, Spending, Utilization, and Prices
Prescription drugs play an ever-increasing role in modern medicine. New medications are improving health outcomes and quality of life, replacing surgery and other invasive treatments, and quickening recovery for patients who receive these treatments. As important as prescription drugs are, not everyone has access to them.
Multivariate Analysis of Patterns of Informal and Formal Caregiving among Privately Insured and Non-Privately Insured Disabled Elders Living in the Community - Executive Summary
Marc A. Cohen, Ph.D. Vice President, LifePlans, Inc. President, Center for Health and Long-Term Care Research Maurice Weinrobe, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Clark University Jessica Miller, M.S.
The Use of Nursing Home and Assisted Living Facilities Among Privately Insured and Non-Privately Insured Disabled Elders
The purpose of this report is to provide basic descriptive statistics on disabled private long-term care insurance policyholders who have accessed long-term care benefits in institutional settings, and to compare such data and findings to non-privately insured institutionalized elders.
Multivariate Analysis of Patterns of Informal and Formal Caregiving among Privately Insured and Non-Privately Insured Disabled Elders Living in the Community
Marc A. Cohen, Ph.D. Vice President, LifePlans, Inc. President, Center for Health and Long-Term Care Research Maurice Weinrobe, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Clark University
Report to the President: Prescription Drug Coverage, Spending, Utilization, and Prices.
Executive Summary
Prescription drugs play an ever-increasing role in modern medicine. New medications are improving health outcomes and quality of life, replacing surgery and other invasive treatments, and quickening recovery for patients who receive these treatments. As important as prescription drugs are, not everyone has access to them.
The Use of Nursing Home and Assisted Living Facilities Among Privately Insured and Non-Privately Insured Disabled Elders
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Dynamics of Children's Movement Among the AFDC, Medicaid, and Foster Care Programs Prior to Welfare Reform: 1995-1996
Policy changes may have both positive and negative effects on programs that are not the primary target of the policy. Policymakers hope that the potential negative effects are minimized and do not outweigh the positive effects on the target program as well as on other programs.
Dynamics of Children's Movement Among the AFDC, Medicaid, and Foster Care Programs Prior to Welfare Reform: 1995–1996
Prepared by: Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago Center for Social Services Research, University of California, Berkeley School of Social Work, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill American Institutes for Research, Prime Contractor
Coordination and Integration of Welfare and Workforce Development Systems
Study Methods Coordination and Client Services Advantages of Coordination for the Client Factors that Promote Coordination Challenges to Coordination
Coordination and Integration of Welfare and Workforce Development Systems
Nancy Pindus Robin Koralek Karin Martinson John Trutko