In 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), under a contract with Mathematica Policy Research, initiated the Pregnancy Prevention Research Evidence Review (PPRER) to identify rigorously evaluated and effective teenage pregnancy prevention program models.

The Charitable Choice provisions of federal welfare reform law encourage states to involve community and faith-based organizations in providing welfare services to the needy. This study examined how state and local officials understand and apply these provisions. The authors note that the level...

This report documents the design and implementation of the eight BSF programs, reports on program services, analyzes characteristics of couples and programs that may affect participation, and describes experiences of couples in the program.

While the causes of rapidly rising medical malpractice insurance premiums remain contentious and unsettled, the consequences are rippling through communities, threatening to diminish access to care and increase costs, with an uncertain impact on quality.

Notes that 11 percent had no source of supplemental coverage. Twenty-nine percent have coverage through an HMO but no other form of subsidized coverage.

In May 2010, a team of researchers from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), as part of the Community Tracking Study (CTS), visited the northern New Jersey metropolitan area to study how health care is organized, financed and delivered in that community.

This Data Spotlight reviews trends in Medicare Advantage plan offerings, choices available to beneficiaries, and the premiums and selected characteristics of the available plans in 2012. Despite concerns about the potential effects of reductions in payments included in the 2010 health reform...