Health & Behavioral Sciences

Health and Human Services website that covers all aspects of the Affordable Care Act. Includes text of the Act.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.

The Dartmouth Atlas Project documents variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project uses Medicare data to provide comprehensive information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets. These reports and the research upon which they are based have helped policymakers, the media, health care analysts and others improve their understanding of the efficiency and effectiveness of our health care system.

The Health and Medicine Division's (HMD) aim is to provide independent, objective analysis and advice to the nation and conduct other activities to solve complex problems and inform public policy decisions related to medicine.

The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is a family of health care databases and related software tools and products sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). H-CUP databases include data collections from State data organizations, hospital associations, private data organizations, and the Federal government. H-CUP includes the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States beginning in 1988. These databases enable research on a broad range of health policy issues.

The Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit organization focusing on national health issues, as well as the U.S. role in global health policy. KFF serves as a non-partisan source of facts, analysis, and journalism for policymakers, the media, the health policy community and the public.

The National Academy for State Health Policy is a nonpartisan forum of policymakers throughout state governments, learning, leading and implementing innovative solutions to health policy challenges