Physical Health Related Links
Links to additional information about health are presented here in four sections. They are:
General Health Resources
Sources of Health and Health Outcomes Data
Health Policy, and the
Uninsured and Access to Care.
General Health Resources
Geography Matters – Child Well-Being in the States
Well Project - A national and international network for women living with HIV disease and the people who care for them.
SOURCES OF HEALTH AND HEALTH OUTCOMES DATA
Health Partnership 2010, a collaborative of greater Austin area health care providers, has developed a set of health status indicator reports which include trended information for the 10-county CAPCO planning area, which includes Travis County. Those reports include information which expands on and complements that in the Health chapters of the Community Action Network Assessment and Community Guide.
Small Area Health Insurance Estimates: 2000
Mortality Indicators
Suicide
2000 Health Assessment Data Tables
The U. S. Department of Health & Human Services has recently published, via the web, community health status reports for each county for which national data are available.
Travis County Report
Search Site for Other Counties
United Healthcare commissions an annual study by The Center for Health Care Policy & Evaluation to measure the healthiness of each of the 50 states. This link is to the report on Texas, which ranks 37th among 50 states in the 2000 study.
HEALTH POLICY INFORMATION
Immigrants' Access to Health Care After Welfare Reform: Findings from Focus Groups in Four Cities
A new analysis of focus groups in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and San Antonio reveal immigrants' knowledge of and attitudes toward public programs such as Medicaid and CHIP. Themes explored include current health coverage, participation in programs, barriers to enrollment, and access to care. The report can be downloaded from this linked site.
The Pew Center for the States Health Web Page
Good source of national and state data, links to other resources, and relevant news stories.
Maternal & Child Health
National Association of Governors' Web Page with information and additional links for more information.
Not Safe at Home: How America's Housing Crisis Threatens the Health of Its Children
Public Agenda ONLINE: Health Section
Called "The Journlist's Inside Source for Public Opinion and Policy Analysis." Here you'll find resources of various kinds about Health Care. You can also get a detailed profile of public thinking about the issue.
The American Health Care System -- Health Insurance Coverage
Health Policy report from The New England Journal of Medicine -- January 14, 1999 -- Vol. 340, No. 2
Healthy People 2010: Understanding and Improving Health, from the U. S. Department of Health & Human Services is a
report which provides our Nation with the wide range of public health opportunities that exist in the first decade of the 21st century. With 467 objectives in 28 focus areas, Healthy People 2010 will be a tremendously valuable asset to health planners, medical practitioners, educators, elected officials, and all of us who work to improve health. Healthy People 2010 reflects the very best in public health planning-it is comprehensive, it was created by a broad coalition of experts from many sectors, it has been designed to measure progress over time, and, most important, it clearly lays out an series of objectives to bring better health to all people in this country.
UNINSURED AND ACCESS TO CARE
A special issue of Health Affairs, with a focus on Expanding Health Coverage, has been publised with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The report includes comprehensive coverage of the range of issues on this subject.
Children’s Medicaid and SCHIP in Texas: Tracking the Impact of Budget Cuts
SCHIP Program Enrollment: December 2003 Update
June 2002 Report to the Technical Advisory Committee
The Center for Studying Health Care System Change offers a number of research studies.
Can't Afford to Get Sick: A Reality for Millions of Working Americans
In the midst of the best economy in 30 years, health care costs remain a significant financial burden for many low- and middle-income families. A large proportion of Americans earning under the median family income of $35,000 are uninsured, go without needed care, face collection agencies when they cannot pay their medical bills, and report poor health, according to Can't Afford to Get Sick: A Reality for Millions of Working Americans, a new report based on The Commonwealth Fund 1999 National Survey of Workers' Health Insurance.
How Will We Pay for Health Care? is the executive summary of the Texas Institute for Health Policy Research Fall '99 symposium.
insurekids.org is the website for an innovative program funded by Michael and Susan Dell to give all children in Travis and Williamson counties to enroll in health insurance today, in advance of the CHIPS initiative.
Decision 2000 - Universal Health Care Coverage in the New Millennium
Web site from American College of Physicians - American Society of Internal Medicine on campaign to reduce the number of uninsured.
Employed But Not Insured:
A State-by-State Analysis of the Number of Low-Income Working Parents Who Lack Health Insurance from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Down A Dangerous Path: The Erosion of Health Insurance Coverage in the United States
From the National Coalition on Health Care. This paper describes the major forces undermining health insurance coverage in the United States today, all of which threaten to further erode coverage in the future. It surveys the latest research and analysis in the field. This research all points in the same direction: there is a confluence of social, cultural, demographic, economic, and political forces that is causing a deep and persistent decline in health insurance coverage.
Poverty Amid Plenty: The Unfinished Business of Welfare Reform Report
In collaboration with the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, the Daughters of Charity United States Provinces, the Federation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph and Pax Christi USA, NETWORK recently completed a major 10-state study (CA, FL, IL, MA, MI, NJ, NY, OH, PA, and TX) of the effects of welfare reform. The Welfare Reform Watch Project has found an identifiable increase in suffering and deprivation among people who no longer receive government assistance. The documentation is published in a new report entitled Poverty Amid Plenty: The Unfinished Business of Welfare Reform.
