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Public Health

Access up-to-date ASPE research on key public health topics including emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, such as influenza and COVID-19; health equity; antibiotic resistance; rural health; opioids, opioid use disorder and overdose prevention; maternal health; public health and health care workforce and infrastructure; immunization and vaccines; Indian health; HIV/AIDS; tobacco; and emergency preparedness, response, and recovery. Also find data on prevention, social determinants of health, and more.

HHS Initiative to Improve Maternal Health

The Department’s Action Plan lays out a vision for improving maternal health that applies a “life course” approach organized around four goals and it sets three ambitious targets to achieve this vision. Each of the four goals includes multiple objectives and action items to drive progress. The Action Plan also describes the current state of maternal health outcomes in the U.S., challenges in reducing maternal mortality and morbidity, recent efforts to improve maternal health within and beyond the federal government, and it discusses various forums in which HHS leadership sought input from key stakeholders.

Reports

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Environmental Scan

Medicaid and Permanent Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless: Literature Synthesis and Environmental Scan

This report reflects existing published and unpublished literature on permanent supportive housing (PSH) for people who are chronically homeless. It has a particular focus on the role that Medicaid currently plays in covering the costs of the supportive services that help people keep their housing and improve their health and quality of life.
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A Descriptive Analysis of the U.S. Department of Labor's Long-Term Care Registered Apprenticeship Programs

This report provides an overview of Long-Term Care Registered Apprenticeship Programs (LTC RAPs) based on existing administrative data from U.S. Department of Labor. The purpose of this initial review is to support the design of a potential future evaluation of the effects of LTC RAPs on apprentices and the program sponsors that administer or operate them.
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Behavioral Health Providers: Expenditures, Methods and Sources of Payment, Electronic Health Record Incentive Payments for Certain Behavioral Health Providers Policy Descriptions

This report is intended to describe sources of payment for behavioral health providers and types of payments (methods, units, adjustments and updates) made to inpatient, outpatient, independent practitioners, and other providers of behavioral health services. A significant focus of this report describes these same factors in terms of Medicare and Medicaid spending. [209 PDF pages]

Disparities in Quality of Care for Midlife Adults (Ages 45 - 64) Versus Older Adults (Ages > 65)

This report discusses disparities in care of baby boom patients with diabetes who become eligible for Medicare. It also examines disparities related to cardiovascular conditions because of their prevalence among older adults and their association with diabetes. Specifically, this report contains 1.) an overarching conceptual model for disparities in midlife adults (45 – 64) vs.

Medical Treatment of Victims of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence and Its Applicability to Victims of Human Trafficking

This Issue Brief examines the procedures and protocols that currently exist for assessing and treating victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in health care settings in an effort to begin evaluating their applicability to victims of human trafficking.

NORC Final Report: Healthy People User Study

Presented to: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Presented by: National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago

Progress toward Self-Sufficiency for Low-Wage Workers

This report examines progress toward self-sufficiency through earnings progression and related changes in income and work supports among low-wage single mothers and other families with low-wage workers in the early 2000s. Low-wage workers experienced significant wage gains during the 1990s, but has wage growth continued? What has helped working single mothers advance in the labor market?

Individuals Living in the Community with Chronic Conditions and Functional Limitations: A Closer Look

This chartbook examines the combination of chronic conditions and functional limitations as a potentially better predictor of high health care utilization. [51 PDF pages]