Reports

Catherine Hawes, Angela Greene, Merry Wood, and Cynthia Woodsong

Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) are presently becoming a more viable option for seekers of long-term care for the elderly. CCRCs have been recognized for their unique strategy of combining various levels of health care within one community setting, as well as their potential for providing cost-effective care.

Catherine Hawes, Angela Greene, Merry Wood, and Cynthia Woodsong Research Triangle Institute

Foreword The Department is pleased to present Performance Improvement 1997: Evaluation Activities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services--the second annual report documenting the evaluation efforts of all the HHS agencies and offices.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Continuing Care Retirement Communities: A Background and Summary of Current Issues Jacquelyn Sanders U.S. Department of Health and Human Services February 24, 1997 PDF Version (40 PDF pages)

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This compendium is published by the Office of Disability, Aging and Long Term Care Policy within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation/HHS. It summarizes the status of current research, the results of research projects sponsored from 1992 1996, and highlights future research plans. Previous editions of this booklet were issued in 1988 and 1992.

As long-term care expenditures have risen, policymakers have sought ways to control costs while maintaining consumer satisfaction. Concurrently, there is increasing interest within the aging and disability communities in consumer-directed care.

To better understand the effect of managed care on people with disabilities, staff from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with the Health Care Financing Administration, have developed research and evaluation efforts focused on managed care and people with disabilities.

Pertaining to The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 (P.L. 104-191)

Final report Prepared under Contract HHS-100-95-0036 U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Government Research Looks at Effects of Managed Care

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

HHS Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy

(ASPE Research Notes, Volume 15) [5 PDF pages]

HHS Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy Health Care Financing Administration American Association of Retired Persons

  ASPE Research Notes INFORMATION FOR DECISION MAKERS FOCUS ON: Health Insurance Issued November 1996 Health Insurance in 1994 from the Current Populati

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES

by Sandra J. Clark, Martha R. Burt, Margaret M. Schulte and Karen Maguire of the Urban Institute for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation, October, 1996.

This paper was used as a handout at a workshop, held as a catalyst for DALTCP's major new initiative to study ways to expand consumer choice and empowerment in obtaining personal assistance services. [15 PDF pages]

Authors: Anne Gordon, Jonathan Jacobson, and Thomas Fraker. Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.,  

Despite the recent decline in the teen birth rate, teen pregnancy remains a significant problem in this country. Most teen pregnancies are unintended. Each year, about 200,000 teens aged 17 and younger have children. Their babies are often low birth weight and have disproportionately high infant mortality rates. They are also far more likely to be poor.

by Sandra J. Clark, Martha R. Burt, Margaret M. Schulte and Karen Maguire of the Urban Institute for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation, October, 1996.

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Robert Goerge, Lucy Mackey-Bilaver, Bong Joo Lee, David Koepke and Allison Harris University of Chicago, Chapin Hall Center for Children

Robert Goerge, Lucy Mackey-Bilaver, Bong Joo Lee, David Koepke and Allison Harris

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This report describes the demographic characteristics and human services utilization of all children and adolescents who are identified as having a disability in Illinois. It also seeks to understand the stability of care that these children receive through childhood and adolescence.

Contact: HHS Press Office (202) 690-6343

PUBLIC LAW 104-191 104th Congress An Act

Executive SummaryIntroduction

Executive SummaryGovernments at all levels are realigning their health-services and human-services programs to keep pace with changing social and fiscal goals. Government initiatives with respect to the organization, financing, and availability of health services are adding impetus to changes that already are far advanced within the health-care industry.

Highlights The IssueHHS has a considerable investment in surveys and other data systems to support broad analytic and program objectives. These range from monitoring of the population and health system, to supporting biomedical, epidemiological, and health services research, to supporting the management and evaluation of HHS programs.

January 1990 through March 1996 448 Selected Citations Prepared by

The purpose of this study is to estimate and compare costs of care for children with 11 selected chronic conditions, to compare these costs with costs of care for children without any of these conditions, and to identify whether selected demographic variables are associated with cost variation.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

By Robert Goerge, John Van Voorhis, Lisa Sanfilippo, and Allen Harden Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago April 8, 1996

The focus of this study is on the key events that individual children may experience in the public child welfare service system. This report discusses the importance of this type of research, the issues that can be addressed with the information produced, an initial set of analyses addressing key questions in child welfare and an agenda for future work. [27 PDF pages]

Final Report to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Grant Number HHS 100-93-0024   Robert Goerge

This paper addresses issues which arise at the juncture of welfare and disability policies. Using preliminary data from a recent survey of current and recent AFDC recipients in California, we find that disabilities and chronic health problems affect the mothers or children in 43% of all households in the AFDC system.

Mark L. Wolraich, E. Michael Foster, Sara C. Willis, and Lynne M. Cushing Vanderbilt University

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