Reports

Ronald J. Ozminkowski, Ph.D., Mark W. Smith, Ph.D., Rosanna M. Coffey, Ph.D., Tami L. Mark, Ph.D., Cheryl A. Neslusan, Ph.D., and John Drabek, Ph.D. The MEDSTAT Group This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-95-0044 between the U.S.

AcknowledgmentsThis report, and its earlier editions, would not have been possible without the substantial support of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics whose member agencies provided data and carefully reviewed relevant sections.

By: The Lewin Group

ForewordPerformance Improvement 2000: Evaluation Activities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is the sixth annual report to Congress summarizing previous fiscal year evaluation efforts. The purpose of this report is to provide Congress with evaluative information on the Department’s programs, policies, activities, and strategies.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services January 2000 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/icdeltci.pdf (54 PDF pages)

Hosted by Rhode Island KIDS COUNT Providence, December 2 & 3, 1999

Contents Characterizing the Low-Wage Labor Market Policy Interventions Affecting Low-Wage Labor Markets Barriers to Entering the Low-Wage Labor Market Opportunities for Advancement and Benefits in the Low-Wage Labor Market

Catherine Hawes, Ph.D., Miriam Rose, M.Ed., and Charles D. Phillips, Ph.D., M.P.H. Myers Research Institute December 14, 1999 This report was prepared under #HHS-100-94-0024 and #HHS-100-98-0013 between HHS's ASPE/DALTCP and the Research Triangle Institute.

This report presents data from a telephone survey of the administrators of assisted living facilities across the country. These facilities were selected from a national probability sample of all facilities that met the criteria for inclusion in the study. Thus, the findings are representative of the industry as a whole.

PrefaceThis volume was prepared at the Urban Institute, a non-profit non-partisan research organization, for the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) of the U.S.

by David M. Smith and Stephen A. Woodbury

by Julia Lane

 by Harry Holzer

by Julia R. Henly

   by Peter Gottschalk

by Gary Burtless

By Burt S. Barnow

By: Julia Isaacs ASPE Staff

By Jared Bernstein and Heidi Hartmann #

JOINT REPORT OF THE HHS Data Council Working Group on Racial and Ethnic Data AND The Data Work Group of the HHS Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health December, 1999

By Mark D. Turner

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services A National Study of Assisted Living for the Frail Elderly: Results of a National Survey of Facilities

Federal Register: November 3, 1999 [Proposed Rules] [Pages 59918-60065] [DOCID:fr03no99P] DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Office of the Secretary 45 CFR Parts 160 through 164 Rin: 0991-AB08

This table describes the current and recently completed child care research conducted by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the Office of the Inspector General (OIG).

  INVENTORY OF HHS CHILD CARE RESEARCH

The Research Triangle Institute (RTI) conducted the Discharged Residents Survey for ASPE through a subcontract with Myers Research Institute (MRI). The survey was administered during June and July 1999. This report documents the data collection activities undertaken by RTI for the survey.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services A National Study of Assisted Living for the Frail Elderly: Discharged Residents Telephone Survey Data Collection and Sampling Report

Margo Rosenbach Kimball Lewis Brian Quinn Submitted to: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation 200 Independence Avenue, SW, Room 450G Washington, DC 20201 Project Officer: Laura Feig Radel

The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy U. S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Johnson and Johnson Family of Companies  

Frequently Asked Questions About Child-Only Cases

Statutory RequirementSection 264 of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Public Law 104-191, enacted August 21, 1996, requires that, if legislation establishing privacy standards is not enacted “by the date that is 36 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall promulgate final regulations cont

Paper presented at theNational Association for Welfare Research and Statistics (NAWRS) 39th Annual Workshop in Cleveland, Ohio

This document provides information by state on the timing of major changes to welfare policies under both the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program (through statewide waivers implemented 1992 – 1996) and the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program (implemented 1996 to 1998).

Assessing the Performance of Organ Transplant Programs: Liver and Heart Transplantation Henry Krakauer Office of Health Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and EvaluationAugust, 1999

Prepared for:U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesAdministration for Children and FamiliesOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

This article discusses the different ways the public pays for long-term care services. It also discusses purchasing long-term care insurance. (Assisted Living Today, July/August 1999, Volume 6, Number 6, pages 36-39) [10 PDF pages]

Prepared by:Lynne M. Fender, Project DirectorMelissa Panagides-BuschRhoda SchulzingerAmerican Institutes for Research

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

IntroductionAt the end of the second year of its National Strategy to Prevent Teen Preg- nancy, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is pleased to report that teen pregnancy rates continue to decline.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This interim report provides timely information about current practices in the employer group long-term care insurance market that can inform federal policymakers and employers in deciding how to construct a group long-term care insurance offering. The interim report summarizes data collected from a survey of employers offering group long-term care insurance to their employees.