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Strategic Action Plan on Homelessness
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has developed the Strategic Action Plan on Homelessness to outline a set of goals and strategies that will guide the Department's activities related to homelessness over the next several years. This strategic action plan serves as the next iteration of the strategic action plan released in 2003, Ending Chronic Homelessness: Strategies for Action,…
Consumer Control of Electronic Personal Health Information: What Does It Mean? Why Is It Important?
A Report on Three Consumer Focus Group Meetings Convened in October, 2005 by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation By: Susan Kanaan Suzie Burke-Bebee Helga E. Rippen U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Prepared for: Office for Science and Data Policy
Strategic Action Plan on Homelessness
Contents Strategic Action Plan Framework Each year, approximately one percent of the U.S. population, some 2-3 million individuals, experiences a night of homelessness that puts them in contact with a homeless assistance provider, and at least 800,000 people are homeless in the United States on any given night. The population who experiences homelessness is a heterogeneous group, and includes…
Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research. Employment and Income Supports for Homeless People
By:David Long, MA, MPP, Abt Associates Inc., Bethesda, MDJohn Rio, MA, CRC, Advocates for Human Potential, Cypress, TXJeremy Rosen, National Policy and Advocacy Council on Homelessness, Alexandria, VA
Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research. Accountability, Cost-Effectiveness, and Program Performance: Progress Since 1998.
Accountability, Cost-Effectiveness, and Program Performance: Progress Since 1998
Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research. Homeless Youth in the United States: Recent Research Findings and Intervention Approaches
By:Paul A. Toro, PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, MIAmy Dworsky, PhD, University of Chicago, Chicago, ILPatrick J. Fowler, MA, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Strategic Action Plan on Homelessness
Report from the Secretarys Work Group on Ending Chronic Homelessness
HUD/HHS/VA Collaborative Initiative to Help End Chronic Homelessness: Preliminary Client Outcomes Report - Executive Summary
Contents Introduction Methods Results Conclusion Introduction After two decades of federal and statewide planning, and numerous local initiatives, homelessness remains a problem for America. While most persons experience homelessness for only a brief period of time, an estimated one-in-ten experience chronic homelessness (Kuhn & Culhane, 1998).
HUD/HHS/VA Collaborative Initiative to Help End Chronic Homelessness: Preliminary Client Outcomes Report
By: Alvin S. Mares, Ph.D., M.S.W. Project Director, VA Northeast Program Evaluation Center and Robert A. Rosenheck, M.D. Director, VA Northeast Program Evaluation Center Northeast Program Evaluation Center (NEPEC) VA Connecticut Healthcare System
Drug Use and Spending for Medicare Beneficiaries During Part A Qualifying Skilled Nursing Facility Stays and Non-Qualifying Long-Term Care Facility Stays
This Policy Brief helps fill an important gap in our understanding of medication patterns in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) by comparing use and spending for prescription and over-the-counter drugs during skilled nursing facility (SNF) stays and related non-qualifying long-term care facility episodes. Its first aim is to characterize Medicare-qualified SNF stays in relation to other episodes…
A National Comparison of Prescription Drug Expenditures by Medicare Beneficiaries Living in the Community and Long-Term Care Facility Settings
This Policy Brief provides a snapshot of prescription drug use and spending in 2001, the latest year for which complete community and long-term care facility drug data are available. For this analysis, the authors present summary findings of: (1) characteristics of Medicare beneficiaries residing in long-term care facilities and the community; (2) overview of prescription drug utilization and…
A National Comparison of Prescription Drug Expenditures by Medicare Beneficiaries Living in the Community and Long-Term Care Facility Settings
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services A National Comparison of Prescription Drug Expenditures by Medicare Beneficiaries Living in the Community and Long-Term Care Facility Settings Linda Simoni-Wastila, PhD, Thomas Shaffer, MHS and Bruce Stuart, PhD University of Maryland, Baltimore, Peter Lamy Center on Drug Therapy and Aging February 15, 2007 PDF Version (19 PDF pages)
Drug Use and Spending for Medicare Beneficiaries During Part A Qualifying Skilled Nursing Facility Stays and Non-Qualifying Long-Term Care Facility Stays
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Drug Use and Spending for Medicare Beneficiaries During Part A Qualifying Skilled Nursing Facility Stays and Non-Qualifying Long-Term Care Facility Stays Bruce Stuart, PhD, Linda Simoni-Wastila, RPh, PhD and Thomas Shaffer, MHS University of Maryland, Baltimore, Peter Lamy Center on Drug Therapy and Aging February 15, 2007 PDF Version (26…
HUD/HHS/VA Collaborative Initiative to Help End Chronic Homelessness: An Evaluation of an Initiative to Improve Coordination and Service Delivery of Homeless Services Networks
Introduction In 2003 the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Veterans Affairs initiated a major service demonstration, the Collaborative Initiative to Help End Chronic Homelessness (CICH). This jointly funded $35 million demonstration represents an extension of efforts to integrate services for homeless people…
HUD/HHS/VA Collaborative Initiative to Help End Chronic Homelessness: An Evaluation of an Initiative to Improve Coordination and Service Delivery of Homeless Services Networks
By: Greg A Greenberg, PhD Northeast Program Evaluation Center, VAMC West Haven, CT, Yale University Department of Psychiatry, New Haven, CT and Robert A Rosenheck, MD Northeast Program Evaluation Center, VAMC West Haven, CT, VA New England Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center; Yale University Department of Psychiatry and School of Epidemiology and Public Health, New…
Analysis of Supply, Distribution, Demand, and Access Issues Associated with Immune Globulin Intravenous (IGIV)
Prepared for: Office for Science and Data Policy Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG) Town Hall Meeting
Report on Health Information Exchange in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care
This report is based on the most recent and current developments related to health information exchange in post-acute care and long-term care. It builds upon the previous literature review conducted in the project that examined the status of electronic health records in post-acute and long-term care and research on clinical information exchange needs at times of transition across the health care…
Analysis of Supply, Distribution, Demand, and Access Issues Associated with Immune Globulin Intravenous (IGIV)
Contents IGIV Supply and Distribution - Key Findings IGIV Demand - Key Fundings IGIV Access Problems- Key Fundings Immune globulin intravenous (IGIV), also referred to as intravenous immune globulin (IVIG), is a valuable treatment for many seriously ill patients. Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not classified IGIV as being in shortage, some patients' groups and physicians…