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The official data archive of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is free and accessible to all researchers, students, and policy-makers.

Our Data Host: The Health and Medical Care Archive

The Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA) at the University of Michigan's Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research is the official data archive of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. HMCA is devoted to preserving and making available research data to expand knowledge about and contribute to the improvement of the health and health care of all Americans.

HMCA data are free and immediately accessible to all researchers, students and policy-makers. Each one of more than 100 collections includes complete documentation, often including original survey questionnaires; links to related publications; and access to restricted data. Data are provided in ASCII text format, and for many collections, in at least one additional format, i.e., SPSS, SAS or Stata.

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The data collections in HMCA are organized according to their main subject matter, using a five-category classification scheme:

Health Care Providers
Cost/Access to Health Care
Substance Abuse & Health
Chronic Health Conditions
Other

Sample Data Collections

Catalogue of Surveillance Systems

These web tools were designed to provide publicly available data and promote the consistent use of common measures and research methods across childhood obesity prevention and research.

National Profile of Local Health Departments, 2008

This survey of local health departments (LHDs) will advance and support the development of a database for LHDs to describe and understand their structure, function, and capacities.

Evaluation of Better Jobs, Better Care

Better Jobs Better Care sought to change public policy and management practice to improve recruitment and retention of high-quality paraprofessional direct care workers.

Watch the Video, Earn the Credits

Learn how to improve care transitions and prevent avoidable hospital readmissions, and pick up nursing and medical education con-ed credits.

Extending the Cure

Working to reduce drug-resistant infections by recognizing that antibiotics are a natural resource and developing new solutions.

Heroic Nurse – the Last Surviving 'Angel of Bataan and Corregidor' – Passes Away

Mildred Dalton Manning, the last surviving member of a group of U.S. Army and Navy nurses taken prisoner in the Philippines at the start of ...

RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize

The RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize honors outstanding community partnerships which are helping people live healthier lives. The six winners w...

Pioneering Ideas Blog

Team members, grantees, and guests discuss breakthrough ideas that will allow us to move toward solving challenges in health care.

Care About Your Care

A national conversation highlighting efforts to improve care transitions, reduce avoidable hospital readmissions, and lift overall quality o...

A Personal Mission: Bridging the Oral Health Care Gap

Raised in a small town in Alabama, SMDEP alumna Monique Trice writes about why her community's geographic makeup has "set the stage for an o...

Scholars Pose Endgame Strategies for Tobacco Use

Do we need an endgame strategy to finally end the devastating hold tobacco has on its users? Scholars, scientists and policy experts grapple...

Grassroots Public Health: Q&A with Shannon Frattaroli

I Believe This About Nursing...

Angelo Llanes: For the first two decades of my life, I definitely did not want to do it. “Until my senior year at Rutgers University, I had ...

RWJF Scholar Alum Discusses Accountable Care Organizations

RWJF Clinical Scholars alumnus Elliot Fisher discusses the origins of ACOs and the effort to develop them in the nation’s health care system...

Quotable Quotes About Nursing, April 2013

New and notable quotes on nurse practitioners, the role of nurses in helping patients who are terminal, nurse/physician collaboration, and m...