Resources:
Local and State Resources:
The Houston Endowment:
http://www.houstonendowment.org/
Harris County Public Healthcare System Council:
http://www.hcphsc.hctx.net/
The Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County:br> http://www.mhmraharris.org/
Mental Health Association of Greater Houston:
http://www.mhahouston.org/cms-home/index.html
Gateway to Care:
http://www.gatewaytocare.org/
Hogg Foundation for Mental Health:
http://www.hogg.utexas.edu/
Integrated Health Care Initiative site (through the Hogg Foundation):
http://www.hogg.utexas.edu/Pages/IHC.html
Texas Health Institute:
http://texashealthinstitute.org/
Texas Department of State Health Services:
http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/
Texas Health and Human Services Commission (includes information on Medicaid and CHIP):
http://www.hhsc.state.tx.us/default.htm
Harris County Juvenile Probation Department:
http://www.hcjpd.org/
Save Our Emergency Rooms:
http://www.saveourers.org/
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS: Houston based effort):
http://www.sph.uth.tmc.edu/ihp/content.asp?id=617
St. Luke's Episcopal Health Charities:
http://www.slehc.org/
Code Red: The Critical Condition of Health in Texas:
http://www.coderedtexas.org/
3 Share Project (University of Texas Medical Branch - The Center to Eliminate Health Disparities)
http://www.utmb.edu/cehd/programs/3share/index.html
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Federal and Nationwide Resources:
U.S. Census Bureau - Health Insurance Data:
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/hlthins.html
Health Coverage Coalition for the Uninsured:
http://www.coalitionfortheuninsured.org/index.html
Health Resources and Services Administration:
http://www.hrsa.gov/
National Center for Health Statistics:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
National Health Interview Survey:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (includes the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project):
http://www.ahrq.gov/
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (also deals with CHIP):
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/
Kaisernetwork.org (an extremely useful website with daily postings of health care policy developments):
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
http://www.kff.org/
(The Kaiser Family Foundation is non-profit, private operating foundation dedicated to providing information and analysis on health care issues to policymakers, the media, the health care community and the general public. The Foundation is not associated with Kaiser Permanente or Kaiser Industries.)
The Commonwealth Fund:
http://www.cmwf.org/
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation:
http://www.rwjf.org/index.jsp
The Urban Institute (link goes to their health care section):
http://www.urban.org/health/index.cfm
Center for Studying Health System Change:
http://www.hschange.org/
State Coverage Initiatives:
http://www.statecoverage.net/
Center for Health Care Strategies:
http://www.chcs.org/
National Health Plan Collaborative:
http://www.chcs.org/NationalHealthPlanCollaborative/index.html
National Health Care Disparities Report:
http://www.qualitytools.ahrq.gov/disparitiesreport/2005/browse/browse.aspx?id=5611
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Research Funding and Human Subjects
Community of Science:
http://www.cos.com/
Health Care: Funding Opportunities (part of AHRQ):
http://www.ahrq.gov/fund/
National Institute of Mental Health: Research and Funding Information:
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/researchfunding/index.cfm
UT Office of Research (links to external funding sources):
http://research.uth.tmc.edu/funding.htm
Robert Wood Johnson: Grant Applications:
http://www.rwjf.org/applications/index.jsp
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Office for Human Research Protections:
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/
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