Research and Evaluation ResourcesAHRQ's Child Health Toolbox: Measuring Performance in Child Health Programs
http://www.ahrq.gov/chtoolbx/
This online resource helps State and local policy makers, program directors, and staff measure health care performance in child health programs. The Web site includes concepts, tips, and tools for evaluating Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program, Title V, and other health care service programs. Sections provide information on understanding performance measurement, uses of performance measurement, established and emerging child health measures, and developing or choosing performance measures. A special feature about early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment is also provided. The site includes news items, consumer health information, funding opportunities, data and surveys, research findings, quality assessment, and resource links.
American Teens Research Brief Series and What Works Tables
http://www.childtrends.org/_docdisp_page.cfm?LID=34697447-3CB7-4A27-A633EBF6D2643B17
This Child Trends Web site displays the American Teens Research Brief Series documents.
CDC - National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs
As the Nation's principal health statistics agency, the National Center for Health Statistics compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve health. The Web site includes an overview of major data collection activities, presents data findings, and provides information about special activities and initiatives to improve access to, and quality of, health statistics information. It includes links to additional sources of health information, and provides a way for readers to submit queries electronically. Publications and information products are also listed on the site.
CDC's Barriers to Children Walking and Biking to School
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5132a1.htm
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report is an online journal produced by CDC. This publication contains data on specific diseases as reported by State and territorial health departments and reports on infectious and chronic diseases, environmental hazards, natural or human-generated disasters, occupational diseases and injuries, and intentional and unintentional injuries. Also included are reports on topics of international interest and notices of events of interest to the public health community. The site also provides surveillance summaries.
CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report is an online journal produced by CDC. This publication contains data on specific diseases as reported by State and territorial health departments and reports on infectious and chronic diseases, environmental hazards, natural or human-generated disasters, occupational diseases and injuries, and intentional and unintentional injuries. Also included are reports on topics of international interest and notices of events of interest to the public health community. The site also provides surveillance summaries.
CDC's School Health Policies and Programs Study 2000
http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/shpps/summaries/credits.htm
This Web site features the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) summaries of State-level data collected from the 50 states and the District of Columbia during the School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS) 2000. SHPPS 2000 is the most comprehensive study of school health policies and programs ever conducted in the United States. SHPPS is conducted periodically to monitor the extent to which school health policies and practices are addressing the leading causes of death, illness, and social problems among young people and adults.
CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/yrbs/index.htm
The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System monitors priority health risk behaviors that contribute markedly to the leading causes of death, disability, and social problems among youth and adults in the United States. These behaviors include tobacco use, unhealthy dietary behaviors, inadequate physical activity, alcohol and drug use, sexual behavior, and behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence. The Web site provides comprehensive data results, State fact sheets, a PowerPoint presentation, a survey participation map, data files and documentation, journal articles, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report surveillance summaries, questionnaires, and news.
Child Trends Databank
http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org
This Child Trends Web site provides the latest national trends and research on over 80 key indicators of child and youth well-being. It includes news, data briefs, and tables. Sections are furnished on health; social and emotional development; income, assets, and work; education and skills; demographics; and family and community.
Children at Risk: State Trends 1990-2000 - Annie E. Casey Foundation
http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/c2ss
This PRB/KIDS COUNT online report, based on the Census 2000 Supplementary Survey, examines changes in 11 key measures of child well-being between 1990 and 2000. Changes are provided on a State-by-State basis. National figures are presented with State figures to help readers ascertain whether a State has improved more than average over the 1990s, and which dimensions of children's lives have changed the most over the past decade.
Childstats.gov: Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
http://childstats.gov
This Web site offers easy access to Federal and State statistics and reports on children and their families, including population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education. Reports include America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, Counting Couples, and Nurturing Fatherhood: Improving Data and Research on Male Fertility, Family Formation, and Fatherhood. The site also furnishes links to tables and databases (comparing the well-being of children in the United States with those in other countries), conference proceedings, and other Forum publications.
DHHS - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
http://www.ahrq.gov
The goal of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. The Web site includes sections on clinical information, consumers and patients, funding opportunities, data and surveys, child health, women's health, minority health, research findings, quality assessment, public health preparedness, and nursing research. It also provides news, a grants online database, information for State and local policy makers, and publications and products.
DoED's National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov
The National Center for Education Statistics is the primary Federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other countries. Web site sections include an electronic catalog, students' classroom, survey and program areas, education statistics at a glance, quick tables and figures, and a search feature (for schools, colleges, and libraries). The site links to the following publications: Digest of Education Statistics, Education Statistics Quarterly, and Condition of Education (2000?2004).
DoED's Scientifically-Based Research
http://www.ed.gov/nclb/methods/whatworks/research/index.html
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 calls for the use of "cientifically based research" as the foundation for many education programs and classroom instruction. This Web site presents the transcript of the February 2002 seminar hosted by the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education in which leading experts in the fields of education and science discussed the meaning of scientifically based research and its status across various disciplines.
Early Release of Select Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/nhis/released200202.htm
This CDC National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) site presents an early release of data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). In this release, NCHS provides estimates for 11 selected health measures based on new data from the January-June 2001 NHIS, with comparison to estimates from NHIS back to 1997. Measures included are health insurance coverage, usual place to go for medical care, failure to obtain medical care, influenza vaccination, pneumococcal vaccination, obesity, leisure-time physical activities, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, HIV testing, and respondent-assessed health status. For each measure, a graph shows the trend over time for the total population, followed by graphs/tables showing estimates by sex, age group, and race/ethnicity based on 6 months of data from 2001. Key findings are highlighted with bulleted text.
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
http://www.eric.ed.gov
ERIC is a national information system of the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences that provides access to education literature and resources. The ERIC Database includes over 1 million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles. A link to ERIC's document reproduction service is provided. ERIC resources include a calendar of education-related conferences, a thesaurus of ERIC descriptors, a source journal index database, and an education resources organizations directory.
Encouraging Teens to Adopt a Safe, Healthy Lifestyle: A Foundation for Improving Adult Behaviors
http://www.childtrends.org/files/k2brief.pdf (150 KB)
This Child Trends research brief addresses issues related to promoting healthy lifestyles among teens (smoking, exercise and nutrition, and sleep), and focuses on preventing unintended injury (car and bike accidents, and occupational injuries). To identify programs that work, the authors reviewed experimental studies and over 230 research studies to identify factors associated with better health-related behaviors. Among the programs found to succeed in helping teens adopt a healthy lifestyle are those that take a multifaceted approach, incorporating psychosocial and behavioral components. Programs should also work to achieve desirable health behavior changes that endure over time. Similarly, programs that aim to prevent injury among teens are most effective when they reach adolescent males and address risky behaviors.
ERIC Digests and Clearinghouses
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/index/abtERICDig.html
ERIC Digests are short reports (1,000-1,500 words) produced by the 16 subject-specialized ERIC Clearinghouses on topics of prime current interest in education. They are targeted specifically for teachers, administrators, policy makers, and other practitioners, but generally useful to the broad educational community. The full-text ERIC Digest searchable database contains 2,466 digests published through December 2001. The database is updated quarterly.
Eye of the Storm: Ten Years on The Front Lines of New Futures
http://www.aecf.org/publications/eyeofstorm/intro.htm
This report reviews the $50 million venture called New Futures, in which the Annie E. Casey Foundation granted $10 million apiece over 5 years to five cities that showed the willingness and capacity to experiment with collaborative, comprehensive, public-private approaches to the multiple problems of "at-risk" children (e.g., teen pregnancy and school dropout rates). The cities chosen were Savannah, Georgia; Little Rock, Arkansas; Dayton, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Lawrence, Massachusetts. At the end of the 5-year project, while none had achieved their original goals, all five had created mediating structures to help break down the fragmented, categorical system of services. However, two sites, Savannah and Little Rock, became lasting home-grown institutions for innovation and reform.
Find Your School - Education Information for Students Across the Nation
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/school.asp
This National Center for Education Statistics Students' Classroom site called Search for Schools allows readers to search by public school, private school, or public and private. Available information includes address, number of students, and other school characteristics. Readers can click on a State on the map or choose one from the pull-down menu, then select a city and click on the name of the school from the list. The database includes approximately 94,000 public schools in the 2002?2003 school year and 30,000 private schools in the 2001?2002 school year.
Health Data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
http://www.oecd.org/document/16/0,2340,en_2825_495642_2085200_1_1_1_1,00.html
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development collects cross-country data (from its 30 member countries) in OECD Health Data, one of the most comprehensive sources of health-related statistics. The Web site provides Excel tables offering a sample of variables that can be found in the report. Among them are tables on life expectancy, infant mortality, cancer, practicing physicians, acute care beds, hospital discharges, surgical procedures, total expenditures on health, alcohol consumption, tobacco consumption, obesity, population 65 years old and older, gross domestic product, and total population. OECD Health Data 2004 can be ordered from the Web site.
Highlights of Healthy People 2000: Final Review - NCHS
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hp2k/review/highlightshp2000.htm
This CDC National Center for Health Statistics site provides highlights of the Healthy People 2000 Final Review. The following are some of the highlights: At the end of the decade, the most recent data indicate 68 objectives (21 percent) met the year 2000 targets and an additional 129 (41 percent) showed movement toward the targets; one of the major accomplishments includes surpassing the target for reducing deaths from coronary heart disease and cancer; the United States made progress toward the goal of reducing health disparities for more than one-half of the special population objectives identified to be at increased risk by Healthy People 2000; and an important development for the next decade is publication of Tracking Healthy People 2010.
Information Access Project
http://phpartners.org/hp/
Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce in this Web site provides easy access to information and evidence-based strategies related to the Healthy People 2010 objectives. The site allows readers to search for published literature related to the following focus areas: access to quality health services, diabetes, disability and secondary conditions, environmental health, food safety, health communication, hearing objectives, nutrition and overweight, oral health, physical fitness, public health infrastructure, respiratory diseases, and vision. Readers can click on the focus areas to link to specific search strategies; the one-click strategies search PubMed.
Kids Count - Annie E. Casey Foundation
http://www.aecf.org/kidscount
KIDS COUNT, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is a national and State-by-State effort to track the status of children in the United States. By providing policy makers and citizens with benchmarks of child well-being, KIDS COUNT seeks to enrich local, State, and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for children. The site includes KIDS COUNT News; online databases --2004 KIDS COUNT Data Book, KIDS COUNT Census Data, County-City-Community Level Information on Kids, and 2004 Right Start; other publications; and a link to the KIDS COUNT Network Web site.
Kids Count Databook Online
http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/census
This KIDS COUNT Census Data Online site consists of population data about age, gender, households, families, and housing units from the Census Short Form (Census SF1) and social, economic, and housing data from the Census Long Form (Census SF3). Data are available for income and poverty, parental employment, education, language, disability, neighborhood characteristics, age and sex, race, Hispanic origin status, and living arrangements. Geographic regions include the United States, individual states, the largest cities, counties, American Indian/Alaska Native/Hawaiian home lands, consolidated metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan statistical areas, primary metropolitan statistical areas, and Congressional districts (for the 108th Congress?this is the only site with this information). Readers can generate three kinds of reports: profiles, rankings, and raw data.
Maternal and Child Health Bureau's Dataspeaks
http://www.uic.edu/sph/dataspeak/hotlinks.htm
This Web site was developed by the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Analytic Skills Online Project, which is a cooperative agreement with the MCH Bureau at the University of Illinois at Chicago. DataSpeak is a series of audioconferences via telephone conference call and/or live on the Internet that feature special topics related to MCH data, including children with special health care needs. Each event features one or more speakers who are experts in their field. The site includes hot links as well as past and future DataSpeaks.
Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning
http://www.mcrel.org
Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) is a nationally recognized, private, nonprofit organization in Colorado dedicated to improving education for all through applied research, product development, and service. The Web site includes news, McREL by topic (e.g., early childhood education, mathematics, rural education, school improvement and reform, science, standards, teacher preparation and retention), information on the Regional Educational Laboratory and Eisenhower Regional Consortium, journals and briefs, quick links, and teaching and learning academies.
NCSL - Chronic Disease Prevention (Statistics and State Laws)
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/phchronic.htm
This NCSL site on chronic disease prevention (asthma, diabetes, obesity, and osteoporosis) provides statistics; advice on physical activity and nutrition; asthma, osteoporosis, diabetes, and Healthy People 2010 objectives; access to the Health Promotion Program State Legislation and Statute Database and the Asthma-Related State Legislation and Statute Database; osteoporosis laws and State laws mandating diabetes health coverage; information on obesity prevention; and publications and resources. It also displays a U.S. map showing the percentage of deaths due to chronic diseases (by State).
Pan American Health Organization - World Health Organization
http://www.paho.org
The Pan American Health Organization is an international public health agency with 100 years of experience in working to improve the health and living standards of countries of the Americas. It serves as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization and is part of the United Nations system. The Web site includes scientific and technical information, a media center, various programs, infectious diseases updates, information on injuries and violence and measles eradication, health data, topics (an alphabetical listing and a listing by category), knowledge resources, and books and journals.
Report Card by State - Education Week
http://www.edweek.org/sreports/qc02/rc/rcard_frameset.htm
This Education Week on the Web site, Report Cards by State, displays six categories of information for each State in the United States: student achievement (fourth and eighth grader proficiency in math, science, reading, and writing), standards and accountability, improving teacher quality, school climate, resources adequacy, and resources equity. A reader needs to register to gain access, then he or she can click on a particular state on a map to see its report card.
State of the States: Comprehensive Picture of Education Policy
http://www.edweek.org/sreports/qc02/templates/article.cfm?slug=17sos.h21
Quality Counts 2002, a publication of Education Week, presents a comprehensive picture of what is happening in education policy in the 50 States and the District of Columbia. Quality Counts reports on student achievement across the States and grades them on standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, and the adequacy and equity of school resources. In this edition the standards and accountability tables include nearly 20 additional indicators on school report cards, testing, and student-accountability policies. Additional upgraded indicators and a grade-by-grade look at State testing policies are also available.
Web-Based Medical Information Retrieval System - NLM
http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/webmirs/index.php
The NLM Web-Based Medical Information Retrieval System (WebMIRS) is a graphical Java program providing access to National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey databases of medical survey data and x-ray images. To run WebMIRS, the reader needs to go to the Installation page to register and install the program.
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