October 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
The project serves children and their families living near two inner-city elementary schools in adjoining districts. At one school, Smart Start serves children from infants through sixth grade at the other, infants through fourth grade.
October 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
The University of California, San Francisco, carried out a qualitative evaluation of the Old Disease, New Challenge program to monitor and evaluate five demonstration strategies.
September 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
The University of Florida School of Medicine surveyed families and health care providers of chronically ill children to determine what services would be needed and how they should be provided in a model residential treatment facility.
July 31, 1997
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Program Result Report
This contract, awarded to Sarah Shuptrine and Associates in 1994, was for an ongoing analysis of major health reform proposals, to identify eligibility and enrollment barriers and recommend ways to reduce or avoid barriers.
July 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
From 1992 to 1995, researchers at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor, Mich. developed a computer simulation model to evaluate the health, economic, and demographic implications of a worksite smoking cessation program.
June 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
The Washington Business Group on Health surveyed its corporate members about preventive care coverage and developed case studies of five employers with strong commitments to preventive care.
June 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
Between 1993 and 1995, staff at the Center for Addictive Behaviors in Salem, Mass., carried out a planning phase of a project to develop and test a model of coordinated substance abuse treatment services for chronic substance abusers.
June 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
The Health Care Policy Research and Development Unit of the Medical Practice Evaluation Center of Massachusetts General Hospital conducted an empirical study of the role of patient insurance status on clinical decision-making.
May 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health examined consumer response to information on hospital mortality released by the Health Care Financing Administration from 1986 to 1993.
May 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
From 1992 to 1996, the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic established a model volunteer clinic on South Carolina's Hilton Head Island, providing care to medically underserved residents and low-income people employed on the island.