The Kaiser Family Foundation’s main Web site (www.kff.org) provides complete access to the Foundation’s reports, surveys, issue briefs, charts, slides and fact sheets containing in-depth analysis and the public’s views on timely and critical issues such as the growing number of uninsured, Medicare, Medicaid, rising health care costs, global HIV/AIDS, racial disparities, women's health policy and the health reform debate. The site features reports and analyses by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured as well as a gateway devoted to the U.S. role in global health policy, which includes original research, news summaries and key facts and background information.
Kaiser Health News (KHN) (www.kaiserhealthnews.org), a nonprofit news organization dedicated to in-depth coverage of health care policy and politics, provides coverage of health policy issues and developments at the federal and state levels, in the health care marketplace and health care delivery system. KHN also provides daily summaries of news coverage of health policy from across the nation, original programming from Kaiser’s broadcast studio, and a broad range of commentary from contributing writers and experts. KHN provides opportunities for health care journalists to produce in-depth work and a vehicle to distribute it through collaborations with major news organizations and on its Web site.
Statehealthfacts.org (www.statehealthfacts.org) provides comparable data on more than 600 key health topics for the United States, each individual state and the District of Columbia. The data are continuously updated and cover a broad range of health-related topics including demographics and the economy, Medicaid, health coverage and the uninsured, Medicare, health costs and budgets, managed care and health insurance, providers and service use, health status, women’s health, minority health and HIV/AIDS. The data are displayed in easy-to-read tables, charts and color-coded maps and can be downloaded for custom analyses. Web visitors can also compare states across a selection of key Medicaid and children's health indicators to create customized fact sheets which can be easily printed, emailed or saved.
KaiserEDU.org (www.kaiserEDU.org) provides students, faculty and others interested in learning about health policy with background and analysis on health policy topics at the center of national debates. KaiserEDU libraries synthesize seminal background research with the latest data and developments on key health policy issues and can easily be used as part of an academic course or for independent research. The information is presented in a variety of formats, providing a full array of multimedia tools for different methods of teaching and learning. Site features include narrated slide tutorials, a syllabus library, a directory of fellowship and internship opportunities and a journal browser providing links to the most recent table of contents of leading health policy journals. Site features include narrated slide tutorials, a syllabus library, a video library, a directory of fellowship and internship opportunities, pre-queried searches on various health policy topics from different search engines and a journal browser providing links to the most recent table of contents of leading health policy journals.