Health Services and Policy Research

Use MedlinePlus to find statistics, information on drugs and other health topics, location of health care professionals, and to link to professional journal citations.

Part of the National Institutes of Health.

The National Institutes of Health, part of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, is the nation's medical research agency and serves as the largest source of funding for medical research in the world.

The CDC Office of Minority Health promotes health and quality of life by preventing and controlling the disproportionate burden of disease, injury and disability among racial and ethnic minority populations.

From Georgetown University's Center for Child & Human Development.

The National Quality Forum is a nonprofit organization that works to improve the quality of American healthcare.

The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that focuses on improving policy surrounding various issues through research and analysis.

This is the largest philanthropy in the U.S. devoted to issues of public health. The web site offers research reports on issues related to health care and health policy.

A private foundation whose mission is "to promote a high performing health care system." Browse the publications, maps & data and surveys. Search the entire site. Example: "health care" AND (racial OR ethnic).

The mission of the Cross Cultural Health Care Program is to serve as a bridge between communities and health care institutions to ensure full access to quality health care that is culturally and linguistically appropriate.

A project of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, this site offers data national, regional and some local data on health care issues with mapping tools and publications.

The Urban Institute works to foster sound public policy and effective government through research and analysis.