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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

• Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)
• Administrative Simplification
• DHSS DATA ACCESS
• HHS Data Council Long-Term Agenda
• National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
• State-Level Integration Homepage
• The Office of Disease Prevention Health Promotion

Works to strengthen the disease prevention and health promotion priorities of the Department of Health and Human Services within the collaborative framework of the HHS agencies.
• Health Care Financing Administrations

Responsible for the administration of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which provide health care coverage to about one in every five Americans.
• United States Public Health Service

This site is used to distribute information regarding the offices and programs that fall under the authority of the Public Health Service. Users can link to these offices, read the latest news from the Public Health Service, or link to other health care resources.
• Agency Health Care Policy and Research

Supports cross-cutting research on health care systems, health care costs, and effectiveness of medical treatments.
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Provides a national system of health surveillance to monitor and prevent outbreak of diseases, and maintains national health statistics. Also provides for immunization services and guards against international disease transmission.
• Health Resources & Services Administration

Supports health resources for medically needy populations, including 600 community and migrant health clinics nationwide. Promotes health professions education, including the National Health Service Corps and provides services to people with AIDS through the Ryan White program. Also supports maternal and infant health programs.
• National Center for Health Statistics

The United State's principal health statistics agency, providing statistical information that will guide actions and policies to improve the health of the American people.
• National Institute of Health

The world's premier medical research organization, supporting some 25,000 research projects nationwide in diseases like cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, heart disease and AIDS.
• National Institute of Mental Health

A component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) serving as the Federal agency that conducts and supports research nationwide on mental illness and mental health, including studies of the brain, behavior, and mental health services.
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Supports treatment services for drug addiction and alcohol abuse as well as drug and alcohol abuse prevention activities. Also monitors substance abuse nationwide, and supports innovative treatment and prevention demonstration projects.

Other Federal Government Health Agencies/Locations

Resource Sites

• Consumer Information Center

A site that helps Federal departments and agencies inform the public about topics ranging from health and safety to Federal benefits and legislation, ensuring public awareness of and access to this information.
• Federal Technology Service (FTS) Introduction
• FedWorld Home Page

The National Technical Information Service's site providing a central location for the public to locate and order U.S. Government information.
• Government Printing Office Access
• Internet Grateful Med

A system that offers assisted searching in the MEDLINE, HealthSTAR, AIDSLINE, and PREMEDLINE databases of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
• National Health Information Center

A health information referral service that puts health professionals and consumers who have health questions in touch with those organizations that are best able to provide answers.
• The Federal Register

A site providing a uniform system for making available regulations and legal notices issued by Federal agencies. These include Presidential proclamations and Executive Orders and Federal agency documents having general applicability and legal effect, documents required to be published by act of Congress and other Federal agency documents of public interest.
• The NII Web Site

A site describing a task force formed by the White House to articulate and implement the Administration's vision for the National Information Infrastructure (NII). It consists of high-level representatives of the Federal agencies that play a major role in the development and application of information and telecommunications technologies.
• THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet

A program from the U.S. Library of Congress that makes Federal legislative information freely available to the Internet public.

Specific Sites

• Census Bureau Home Page

A site providing an efficient way to distribute Census Bureau data and increase public access to Bureau information.
• Department of Veterans Affairs

A site providing the background and history of the department. It has links to information on services and benefits available to veterans, such as pensions, education and training, medical care, home loan assistance and insurance. It also has a section on VA organizations and facilities arranged alphabetically by state.
• Social Security Administration

Deals with Social Security benefits and services for both individuals and businesses. Site information includes a Social Security Handbook, pamphlets covering retirement, disability, and medicare, and other publications. Many service are available on-line.
• The White House Social Statistics Briefing Room

Health Foundations

Resource Sites

• Foundation- Wide Initiatives Activities

A site that addresses problems of importance to the work of two or more MacArthur Foundation programs. It currently focuses on conditions in the former Soviet Union, the health and safety of children, the well-being of women, energy use in the U.S., and research on the state of the world in the year 2050.
• Health on the Net Foundation

An international, non-profit organization that is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and is dedicated to realizing the benefits of the Internet and related technologies in the fields of medicine and healthcare. It actively promotes effective Internet use and demonstrates best-in-class implementation and application.
• The Foundation Center

An independent nonprofit information clearinghouse that attempts to foster public understanding of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects.

Specific Sites

• Annie E. Casey Foundation

A private charitable organization dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States. Its primary mission is to foster public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families. In pursuit of this goal, the Foundation makes grants that help states, cities, and neighborhoods fashion more innovative, cost-effective responses to these needs.
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care. It concentrates its grantmaking in four areas: assuring access to basic health services; improving the way services are organized and provided for people with chronic health conditions; reducing the harm caused by substance abuse; and helping the nation address the problem of rising health care costs.
• The Commonwealth Fund - Home Page

A New York City-based national foundation that engages in independent research on health and social policy issues.
• The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

A foundation, based in Menlo Park, California, that is an independent health care philanthropy whose work is focused on health policy, reproductive health, HIV policy, and health and development in South Africa. It also maintains a special interest in health policy and innovation in its home state of California.
• The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Home Page

A private, independent grantmaking institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals to improve the human condition.
• The Pew Charitable Trusts

A national philanthropy based in Philadelphia that seeks to encourage individual development and personal achievement, cross-disciplinary problem solving and innovative, practical approaches to meeting the changing needs of a global community.
• W.K.Kellogg Foundation

Health Newsletters

Resource Sites

• InfoSeek Search Results: News Health

The search results of "The Infoseek Guide," an index to thousands of World Wide Web sites, using the search terms news and health.
• Medscape

A free service for health professionals and interested consumers that features thousands of full-text, peer-reviewed articles, medical news, Medline access, and interactive quizzes.
• NewsPage: Healthcare

The Healthcare section of "NewsPage," a source of daily business news that has thousands of categorized news stories updated daily.
• The Six Senses Healthcare And Medical Web Site Review Program

A program developed to provide a consistent set of criteria for evaluating medical and healthcare sites on the World Wide Web. Sites are evaluated based on the specific challenges and communications needs of healthcare and medical organizations.

Specific Sites

• CoMed Communications Internet Health Forum

A site that was developed by professional communicators in an attempt to provide information and education about a series of carefully selected diseases and other matters related to healthcare. The site tends to deal with clinical disorders for which cures are not yet available. In particular, it tries to highlight disorders in which knowledge and understanding of the issues on the part of the patient and the patient's family becomes particularly important to seeking and obtaining the highest quality of available patient care.
• The Federal Register

A site providing a uniform system for making available regulations and legal notices issued by Federal agencies. These include Presidential proclamations and Executive Orders and Federal agency documents having general applicability and legal effect, documents required to be published by act of Congress and other Federal agency documents of public interest.
• Group Health Cooperative

A site that includes a link to "Northwest Health Magazine," a magazine of Group Health Cooperative that provides ongoing communication between Group Health and its members. Its purpose is to inspire and empower readers to live healthy lives, use healthcare resources wisely, and participate in the Cooperative.
• Harvard Medical School: Health Publications Group

A source of timely and reliable health news and education for both the general consumer and the health care professional.
• HealthGate Home Page

An online source of a variety of health, wellness, and biomedical information. The site provides access to a wide variety of medical news, databases and handbooks.
• Houston Chronicle Interactive HomePage

A site providing hundreds of stories from the daily Houston Chronicle plus news and features not found in the paper. It also links to several features that take advantage of the unique interactive experiences available on-line.
• Managed Care On Line

A company in the Managed Care information software business, providing managed care information to the managed care community. It endeavors to develop and provide affordable, innovative high quality managed care information and communication software applications of a unique nature to a variety of audiences involved with managed care.
• National Academy Press Reading Room

A site from the National Academy Press that provides access to a wide assortment of books, reports and publications that deal with new and important topics in the worlds of science, engineering, and health.
• NCSLnet: Intergovernmental Health Policy Project Home Page

Health Program-Specific Resources

• CDC Information Network for Public Health Officials (INPHO)

Uses telecommunications and computer networks to give state and community public health practitioners better access to authoritative, technical information they need to identify health dangers, implement prevention and health promotion strategies, and evaluate health program effectiveness.
• Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.

A non-profit, non-partisan policy and resource center affiliated with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. It serves as the National Program Office for two national initiatives of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF): Medicaid Managed Care Program and Building Health Systems for People with Chronic Illnesses.
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

A nonpartisan research organization and policy institute that conducts research and analysis on a range of government policies and programs, with an emphasis on those affecting low- and middle-income people.
• Environmental Protection Agency

An agency created to solve the U.S.'s urgent environmental problems and to protect the public health. Working closely with state, local and tribal governments it has established a system of public health and environmental protection second to none in the world.
• Health Administration/Health Policy Sources
• Health Services/Technology Assessment Text

A free, electronic resource that provides access to the full-text of documents useful in health care decision making.
• HSTAT Access to Full Text: AHCPR Guidelines

An on-line version of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research's (AHCPR's) Clinical Practice Guideline, Quick Reference Guidelines, and Consumer Guidelines.
• National Academy Press On-Line Books & Executive Summaries
• National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information

The information service of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. It is the world's largest resource for current information and materials concerning substance abuse prevention.
• National Health Information Center

A health information referral service that puts health professionals and consumers who have health questions in touch with those organizations that are best able to provide answers.
• National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Disease

A site that provides users with information to better understand Diabetes, Nutrition, and Obesity as well as Digestive, Endocrine, Hematologic, Kidney, and Urologic Diseases.
• National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health

Part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that is responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related illness and injuries.
• Political Web Traveler

Health Organizations

• American Association of Health Plans Online (AAHP)

A web site for health professionals interested in the health network industry. It provides registered members with to managed healthcare information and services and offers enhanced interactive communication features.
• American Assocation of Retired Persons (AARP)

A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that is dedicated to helping older Americans achieve lives of independence, dignity and purpose.
• Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)

An association of medical schools, teaching hospitals, and academic societies that works with its members to set a national agenda for medical education, biomedical research, and health care.
• American Public Health Association (APHA)

The oldest and largest organization of public health professionals. It is concerned with a broad set of issues affecting personal and environmental health, including federal and state funding for health programs, pollution control, programs and policies related to chronic and infectious diseases, a smoke-free society by the year 2000, and professional education in public health.
• American Medical Association (AMA)

A partnership of physicians and their professional associations dedicated to the promotion of the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health. The site offers information for the medical professional and electronic versions of print publications such as JAMA.
• American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

An association dedicated to the development and application of medical informatics in the support of patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration.
• American Public Welfare Association (APWA)
• Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
• Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine (ATPM)

A site that brings prevention-related topics in medicine and health to the world of networking, as well as informing users of the workings of the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine.
• Hospital Web

A simple and globally accessible way for patients, medical researchers, and physicians to get information on the growing number of hospitals having sites on the World Wide Web.
• National Academy for State Health Policy - NASHP
• National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO)

A health information organization dedicated to the improvement of health care through the collection, analysis, dissemination, and use of health care data.
• National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)

An organization of insurance regulators from the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and the four U.S. territories that provides a forum for the development of uniform policies when uniformity is appropriate.
• National Assocation of Public Health Information Systems (NAPHIS)
• National Association of Public Hospitals (NAPH)
• National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA)

An independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to assessing and reporting on the quality of managed care plans, including health maintenance organizations.
• National Health Information Resource Center (NHIRC)

A clearinghouse and communications hub about health information systems and data. It was designed to provide access to the resources needed to build and use health information systems and data. It also serves as an opportunity to share expertise and experience with other NHIRC users by adding to its databases and participating in discsussions about a wide range of different health information topics and issues.
• National Health Law Program (NALP) Home Page

Private Health Information Locations

• Amercian Hospital Publication Inc.
• California Consumer Health Scope

A site attempting to improve the quality of health care in California by helping users become active and informed health care decision-makers. It provides resources such as report cards to evaluate the quality of care provided by health plan and hospital options.
• Families USA's Home Page

A national nonprofit organization that advocates high-quality, affordable health and long term care for all Americans. It works at the national, state, and grassroots levels with organizations and individuals to help them participate constructively in shaping health care policies in the public and private sectors.
• HCIA

A health care information content company that develops and markets clinical and financial decision support systems used to benchmark clinical performance and outcomes, profile best practices, and manage the cost and delivery of health care.

State Health Information Locations

Resource Sites

• Council of State Governments

A group that helps states increase efficiency by identifying the best new and creative approaches to significant state problems. It draws upon experts in the states, and marshals them as consultants to help sister states in need of services. It also provides leadership training to help state officials enhance their skills in managing strategic change.
• National Assocation of State Information Resource Executives
• National Association of Health Data Organizations

A health information organization dedicated to the improvement of health care through the collection, analysis, dissemination, and use of health care data.
• National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)

A bipartisan organization dedicated to serving the lawmakers and staffs of the nation's 50 states, its commonwealths and territories by providing a source for research, publications, consulting services, meetings and seminars as well as a national conduit for lawmakers to communicate with one another and share ideas.
• National Governors' Association (NGA)

A bipartisan organization of, by, and for the nation's Governors that provides a forum for the exchange of views and experiences. It also provides assistance in solving state-focused problems, information on state innovations and practices, and a bipartisan forum for Governors to establish, influence, and implement policy on national issues.
• State and Local Government on the Net (LENXIS)

A site intended to provide convenient access to a wide variety of links to local and state government information. A search engine is available on the site.
• State Executive Organizations

A site providing information and WWW links to approximately twenty state government associations that are State Services Organization tenants in the Hall of the States.
• State Search: Health and Human Services and Welfare

A service designed to serve as a topical clearinghouse to state government information on the Internet. This section deals with health, human services and welfare and reports the web page links for each of the states in the U.S.
• State Services Organization (SSO)

A joint venture of The Council of State Governments , The National Conference of State Legislatures, and The National Governors' Association which has worked to establish the Hall of the States, facilitate collocation of state related organizations and offices, pool resources to develop and maintain quality central services at a cost savings to individual offices, and provide services which would be economically unfeasible for an individual office to maintain.
• State Services Organization Tenants
• The National Health Information Resource Center (NHIRC)

A clearinghouse and communications hub about health information systems and data. It was designed to provide access to the resources needed to build and use health information systems and data. It also serves as an opportunity to share expertise and experience with other NHIRC users by adding to its databases and participating in discsussions about a wide range of different health information topics and issues.

Specific Sites

• Calfiornia HEALTH INFORMATION for Policy Project (CHIPP)

A sister program to the Information for State Health Policy Program that was created to increase the availability, accessibility, and useability of health data and information to address access to and management of primary health care services and resources for the increasingly diverse population of California.
• Colorado-Health Statistics and Vital Records Division

An agency responsible for the collection, compilation, and maintenance of information about the state's vital events including live births, spontaneous fetal deaths, induced terminations of pregnancy, deaths, marriages, and marriage dissolutions. The division also participates in research projects designed to increase understanding of the health status of Coloradans.
• Florida Statewide Public Health Information Network

A telecommunications network that connects the public health offices statewide to enable easy exchange of health data and reports, information, and electronic mail.
• Minnesota Health Data Institute

An agency that is responsible for creating an integrated, statewide health care data system that supports the information needs of health care consumers, purchasers, providers, plans, policymakers, and researchers in measuring and improving the quality and efficiency of health care services in Minnesota.
• Mississippi Division of Medicaid

A site containing information on items such as Federal Medicaid Statistics From HCFA, Medicaid Annual Reports, Medicaid Provider Manuals, Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS), and Medicaid Estate Recovery Law. It also has Provider Bulletins, information on Managed Care, and Statistical Reports.
• New York State Department of Health

A site that contains information from the Commissioner, directory services, and information on how to get New York State vital records information. It also contains information for consumers, physicians and other health care providers, and researchers.
• North Carolina Center for Health Statistics
• North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
• North Carolina Public Health Home Page
• NCSLnet: Intergovernmental Health Policy Project Home Page
• Oregon Health Plan Administrator's Office

A program created to ensure all citizens of Oregon access to health care coverage. Components of the Health Plan include a purchasing pool for small businesses, health insurance available for high-risk individuals, and state-provided health insurance for those below federal poverty level levels.
• South Carolina: Budget and Control Board, Office of Research and Statistics

An agency charged with the responsibility of gathering, analyzing, and publishing data vital to the social, health, and economic well-being of South Carolina.
• Texas Department of Health

An electronic guide to the Texas Department of Health (TDH) containing health-related data and information on the many public health services provided by the program.
• The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council

An independent state agency responsible for addressing the problem of escalating health costs, ensuring the quality of health care, and increasing access for all citizens regardless of ability to pay.
• Utah Office of Health Data Analysis

An agency that supports the Utah Health Data Committee in its legislative mandate to collect, analyze, and disseminate health care information to the public and supports health care reform initiatives.
• Washington State INPHO

A project from the Washington State Department of Health (DOH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the state's Local Health Departments/Districts (LHDs) that works toward the development and implementation of a public health data communications network.
• Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services Server

A site offering various resources, program information, statistics, and contacts.
• Wisconsin Office of Health Care Information

An agency that collects and reports utilization and charge data on hospitals, hospital discharges, hospital-based outpatient surgery and selected freestanding ambulatory surgery throughout Wisconsin. It also compiles profile information about other health care providers, such as physicians and nurses.

Health Policy Resources

Resource Sites

• Health Policy Links

A site from EPN, the Electronic Policy Network, providing links to sites related to national health policy, state health policy, public health, consumer health, quality improvement and information technology, health policy foundations, and other health-related sites.
• Internet Health Resources - Home Page

A site providing links to Internet-wide health information as well as health information for the San Francisco Bay Area.
• State Search: Health and Human Services and Welfare

A service designed to serve as a topical clearinghouse to state government information on the Internet. This section deals with health, human services and welfare and reports the web page links for each of the states in the U.S.
• THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet

A program from the U.S. Library of Congress that makes Federal legislative information freely available to the Internet public.

Specific Sites

• American Political Network

A provider of political and policy news and information including public policy areas such as the environment, health care, and abortion.
• Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.

A non-profit, non-partisan policy and resource center affiliated with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. It serves as the National Program Office for two national initiatives of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF): Medicaid Managed Care Program and Building Health Systems for People with Chronic Illnesses.
• HandsNet the Human Service Forum

A national, nonprofit organization that promotes information sharing, cross-sector collaboration and advocacy among individuals and organizations working on a broad range of public interest issues.
• Health Care Liability Alliance (HCLA)

A national advocacy coalition that supports effective federal health care liability reform to enhance the fairness, timeliness and cost-effectiveness of the civil justice system in resolving health care injury disputes.
• Healthcare Reform Forum

A site offerred as a meeting place for healthcare advocates and primary medical professionals involved on the "front lines" in delivery of community health care in New York City.
• Inter Governmental Council: Health

A gopher menu providing links to information about a variety of healthcare topics.
• Inter Governmental Council: State Health Policy

A program that provides assistance to state executive officials, legislators, legislative staff and others who need to know about important developments in state health policies.
• NASIRE

A service of the National Association of State Information Resource Executives designed to serve as a topical clearinghouse to state government information on the Internet.
• Policy Information Exchange

A nonprofit institution which disseminates U.S. health care policy information to physical and mental health care professionals. The site contains data about current national health policy, including verbatim testimonies before the House of Representatives as well as many other resources.
• State Laws

A set of links to state law information available on the World Wide Web as compiled by Counsel Connect, an on-line service for attorneys.
• The Electronic Policy Network

A site providing timely information and leading ideas about national policy and politics. It also contains links to sites related to civic participation, health policy, economics and politics, and welfare and families.

Health Think Tanks

Private

• The Brookings Institution

Considered the nation's oldest think tank, the Brookings Institution is a private, independent, nonprofit research organization that seeks to improve the performance of American institutions, the effectiveness of government programs, and the quality of U.S. public policies. It addresses current and emerging policy challenges and offers recommendations for dealing with them, expressed in language that is accessible to policy makers and the general public alike.
• The Carter Center

A nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute that is dedicated to fighting disease, hunger, poverty, conflict, and oppression through collaborative initiatives in the areas of democratization and development, global health, and urban revitalization.
• The Cato Institute

A nonpartisan public policy research foundation headquartered in Washington, D.C.that seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate and allow greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned lay public in questions of policy and the proper role of government. It undertakes an extensive publications program dealing with a complete spectrum of policy issues.
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

A nonpartisan research organization and policy institute that conducts research and analysis on a range of government policies and programs, with an emphasis on those affecting low- and moderate-income people.
• Forum for State Health Policy Leadership
• The Heritage Foundation

A research and educational institute whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.
• Mathematica Policy Research Home Page

A firm that conducts public policy research and analysis. It has conducted evaluations of public programs and demonstrations undertaken in the United States which crisscross the human life span from children's health and welfare to long-term care for elderly people.
• RAND Health Sciences Program

A program that endeavors to advance knowledge about how cost, quality, and access to care can be altered to promote a better health care system for Americans.
• The Urban Institute -- Health Policy
• Westat

An employee-owned corporation conducts surveys and provides statistical research and related services to the agencies of the U.S. Government and a broad range of institutional and business clients.

University

• Alpha Center

A non-profit, non-partisan health policy center that helps public and private sector clients respond to health care challenges by providing "essential" keys to policy-making.
• The C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth

An organization with growing initiatives in medical education, health and telecommunication that focus in particular on reforming medical education, increasing opportunities for primary care physicians, and promoting the ethic of prevention.
• Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.

A non-profit, non-partisan policy and resource center affiliated with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. It serves as the National Program Office for two national initiatives of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF): Medicaid Managed Care Program and Building Health Systems for People with Chronic Illnesses.
• The Center for Law and Social Policy
• The Health Policy Page from IDEA CENTRAL

A site from EPN, the Electronic Policy Network, providing links to sites related to national health policy, state health policy, public health, consumer health, quality improvement and information technology, health policy foundations, and other health-related sites.
• Institute for Health Policy Studies

A site from the University of California at San Francisco School of Public Health's Institute for Health Policy Studies.
• Leonard Davis Institute Home Page

A formal cooperative venture among University of Pennsylvania's schools of medicine, business, nursing, and dental medicine, this institute is the primary locus of Penn's activities and programs in health services research, policy analysis, and educat ion.
• Lister Hill Center for Health Policy

A center that fosters health policy and health services research on the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) campus and desseminates the findings of that research beyond the usual channels of academic publication.
• Montana Department of Community and Government Studies

A department at the University of Montana that plans, implements, and completes special projects for community and government agencies that match the expertise and resources of the University with the needs and requirements of those agencies.
• Northwestern University's Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies

An institute that provides national and state leadership for increasing the understanding and performance of the U.S. health care system through that address issues of access, costs, quality of care, technology and the organization, financing and deli very of care.
• Research Triangle Institute

An independent institute that provides research, development and technical services within the US and abroad to both government and private industry.
• Wisconsin Network for Health Policy Research

Health Referral Locations

• Hierarchy Level: Healthcare
• Health Administration Page
• Health Administration/Health Policy Sources

A site from Mercer University providing links to sources of health administration information, U.S. Government, Health Data Sources and Statistics, Health Administration Associations, Health Administration References, Electronic Journals and Bookstore s, Hospitals on the web, and other sites.
• Health Economics - Places to Go

A site providing links to sites related to Health Economics, the Evaluation of Health Care Technologies, Health Policy, Pharmaceutical/Biomedical Information, Public Health, Managed Care/Health Care Industry, Medical Resources, and others.
• Mailing Lists in Health Administration and Health Policy
• MedWeb: Health Care Reform

The Health Care Reform section of MedWeb, a directory of biomedical internet resources from the Emory University Health Sciences Center Library.
• MedWeb: Public Health

The Public Health section of MedWeb, a directory of biomedical internet resources from the Emory University Health Sciences Center Library.
• NewsPage: Healthcare

The Healthcare section of NewsPage, an interactive news service that provides with current, filtered news across a broad array of topics.
• Sites with Health Services Research and Public Health Information 

A directory of sites with Health Services Research and Public Health Information being compiled by the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Washington.
• Sources of Statistical Information in the Health Sciences

A guide from the University of Pittsburgh that gives information on locating health statistics and resources available on the World Wide Web.
• Statistical Resources on the Web

The Statistics portion of Documents Center, the University of Michigan's reference and referral system for local, state, federal, foreign, and international government information.
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library: US Government Information Sources

Links to various branches of the Department of Health and Human Services from The World Wide Web Virtual Library, an index of Government World Wide Web Home Pages.
• Yahoo! - Health

The "Health" subdirectory of Yahoo!, one of the World Wide Web's largest directories.
• Yahoo! - Government: Agencies

The "Government: Agencies" subdirectory of Yahoo!, one of the World Wide Web's largest directories.

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Information for State Health Policy Program
Revised: February 5, 1998
Home Page URL: http://www2.umdnj.edu/shpp/homepage.htm