Colorado Health Institute: Related Links


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Below is a list of links to useful resources for health information. Colorado-specific Web sites are listed in green. If you have links to suggest for our site, please e-mail info@coloradohealthinstitute.org.

The links are separated into the following categories:

Consumer Sites
Data Sources
Foundations
Government Resources
Journals
National Health Initiatives
Policy & Research
Professional & Trade Organizations
Special Interest

Consumer Sites

Colorado Health Guide	http://www.coloradohealthguide.org
Health Central	http://www.healthcentral.com
Health Hippo	http://hippo.findlaw.com/hippohome.html
Healthfinder	http://www.healthfinder.gov
National Health Information Center	http://www.health.gov/nhic
Colorado Association for School-Based Health Care	http://casbhc.org
Colorado Department of Human Services - Division of Mental Health	http://www.cdhs.state.co.us/dmh/
Mental Health Association of Colorado	http://www.mhacolorado.org/resources.html#mhc
University of Colorado Denver	http://www.uchsc.edu/
Health Care for All Colorado Foundation	http://healthcareforallcolorado.org/?p=17
Consumer Health Ratings.com	http://www.consumerhealthratings.com/
State health reform interactive map	http://www.kff.org/uninsured/kcmu_statehealthreform.cfm
Medicaid database	http://www.kff.org/medicaid/benefits/index.jsp
Local public health departments	http://www.calpho.org/index.cfm
Colorado Baseline Coverage and Spending	http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=BlueRibbon%2FRIBBLayout&cid=1162927357577&p=1162927357577&pagename=RIBBWrapper
ClinicNet	http://www.clinicnet.org/
Colorado hospital report card	http://www.coloradohealthinstitute.org/dev/newadmin/mgr/frame.cfm?CFID=2500&CFTOKEN=86955033
Colorado Children's Healthcare Access Program	http://www.cchap.org/about-this-site/
Rural Health Professional Shortage Areas	http://www.raconline.org/maps/#map_medical_clinician
Citehealth	http://citehealth.com/

Data Sources

Children's Defense Fund	http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=data
Denver Healthy People 2010	http://www.denvergov.org/hp2010/
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations	http://www.jointcommission.org/AccreditationPrograms/
Market Facts - Colorado	http://www.hmo-info.com/mktfacts/mktfact_output.cfm?stid=4

Foundations

Annie E. Casey Foundation	http://www.aecf.org
Caring for Colorado	http://www.caringforcolorado.org
Kaiser Family Foundation	http://www.kff.org/about/index.cfm
Rose Community Foundation	http://www.rcfdenver.org
The Colorado Trust	http://www.coloradotrust.org
The Commonwealth Fund	http://www.cmwf.org
Daniels Fund	http://www.danielsfund.org
The Pew Charitable Trust	http://www.pewtrusts.com
The Piton Foundation	http://www.piton.org
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation	http://www.rwjf.org
The Colorado Health Foundation	http://www.coloradohealth.org

Government Resources

Administration on Aging	http://www.aoa.gov/index.asp
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality	http://www.ahrq.gov
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	http://www.cdc.gov
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services	http://www.cms.hhs.gov
Colorado Department of Human Services	http://www.cdhs.state.co.us
Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment	http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/
Colorado Division of Insurance	http://www.dora.state.co.us/insurance/index.htm
Colorado General Assembly	http://www.leg.state.co.us/
Colorado State Web site	http://www.colorado.gov
National Institute on Aging	http://www.nia.nih.gov
The Office of Minority Health	http://www.omhrc.gov
Rural Health Policy	http://ruralhealth.hrsa.gov
Office of the Surgeon General	http://www.surgeongeneral.gov
The Library of Congress	http://www.loc.gov/index.html
National Institutes of Health	http://www.nih.gov
The Office on Women's Health	http://www.4woman.gov/owh
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) – Bureau of Primary Health Care	http://bphc.hrsa.gov
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)	http://www.hrsa.gov
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means	http://waysandmeans.house.gov
U.S. National Library of Medicine	http://www.nlm.nih.gov
Colorado Department of Labor & Employment	http://coworkforce.com/
Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, Division of Registrations	http://www.dora.state.co.us/registrations/
Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing	http://www.chcpf.state.co.us/
Bureau of Health Professions	http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/
Colorado Department of Public Health and Envrionment: Primary Care Office	http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/pp/primarycare/index.html
Assessing Safety Net Provider Financial Health: A Simple Measurement Tool	http://www.ahrq.gov/data/safetynet/clouse.htm
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Facilities Locator and Directory	http://www1.va.gov/directory/guide/home.asp?isFlash=1

Journals

Social Science & Medicine	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02779536
American Journal of Public Health	http://www.ajph.org
Economic Inquiry	http://ei.oxfordjournals.org
Health Affairs	http://www.healthaffairs.org
Health Services Research	http://www.hsr.org/
Journal of the American Medicine Association	http://jama.ama-assn.org
Medical Care	http://www.lww-medicalcare.com
The Milbank Quarterly	http://www.milbank.org/quarterly.html
New England Journal of Medicine	http://content.nejm.org/search_cme.dtl

National Health Initiatives

Child Health Insurance Research Initiative	http://www.ahrq.gov/chiri
Covering Kids and Families	http://coveringkidsandfamilies.org/
Covering the Uninsured Week	http://covertheuninsured.org
Healthy People 2010	http://www.healthypeople.gov/Default.htm
The National Health Information Infrastructure	http://aspe.hhs.gov/sp/nhii

Policy & Research

American Legislative Exchange Council	http://www.alec.org/
Alliance for Health Reform	http://www.allhealth.org/index.asp
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research	http://www.aei.org/default.asp?filter=all
Bighorn Center	http://www.bighorncenter.org
Center for Healthcare Strategies, Inc.	http://www.chcs.org
Center for Health Services Research and Policy-George Washington University	http://www.gwumc.edu/sphhs/healthpolicy/chsrp/
Institute for the Future of Aging Services	http://www.medicareed.org
Center for Policy Alternatives	http://www.cfpa.org
Center for Studying Health System Change	http://www.hschange.com
Center for the Advancement of Health	http://www.cfah.org
Center on an Aging Society	http://ihcrp.georgetown.edu/agingsociety/
Colorado Center on Law and Policy	http://www.cclponline.org
Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute	http://www.cclponline.org/ccs/about_CFPI.html
Denison Memorial Library	http://denison.uchsc.edu/index.html
Health Care Policy Center at the Independence Institute	http://www.i2i.org/main/page.php?page_id=79
Institute for Child Health Policy-University of Florida	http://www.ichp.ufl.edu
Latino American Research and Service Agency	http://www.larasa.org
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.	http://www.mathematica-mpr.com
MedicinePlus	http://www.medlineplus.gov
Milbank Memorial Fund	http://www.milbank.org
National Academy for State Health Policy	http://www.nashp.org
National Center for Policy Analysis	http://www.ncpa.org
National Committee for Quality Assurance	http://www.ncqa.org
National Conference of State Legislatures	http://www.ncsl.org
National Health Policy Forum	http://www.nhpf.org
National Institute of Health Policy	http://www.nihp.org
NORC – A National Organization for Research at the University of Chicago	http://www.norc.org/Focusareas/Health/
OMNI	http://www.omni.org/centers.aspx
National Center for Biotechnology Information	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
RAND	http://www.rand.org
Research!America	http://www.researchamerica.org
Research Triangle Institute	http://www.rti.org
State Coverage Initiatives	http://www.statecoverage.net
The Bell Policy Center	http://www.thebell.org
The Cato Institute	http://www.cato.org
The Heartland Institute	http://www.heartland.org
The Heritage Foundation	http://www.heritage.org
The Urban Institute	http://www.urban.org
The Women's and Children's Health Policy Center	http://www.jhsph.edu/WCHPC
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research	http://www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu
UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies	http://www.ihps.medschool.ucsf.edu/
University of Colorado Denver - Division of Health Care Policy and Research	http://www.uchsc.edu/hcpr
University of Denver's Institute for Public Policy Studies	http://www.du.edu/ipps
Center for Research Strategies (CRS)	http://www.crsllc.org

Professional & Trade Organizations

American Health Care Association	http://www.ahca.org
American Hospital Association	http://www.aha.org
American Public Health Association	http://www.apha.org
America's Health Insurance Plans	http://www.ahip.org
American Medical Group Association	http://www.amga.org
The Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs	http://www.amchp.org
Colorado Business Group on Health	http://www.coloradohealthonline.com
Colorado Hospital Association	http://www.cha.com
Colorado Health Care Association	http://www.cohca.org
Colorado Health Information Management Association	http://www.chima.org
Colorado Public Health Association	http://www.coloradopublichealth.org
Council for Affordable Health Insurance	http://www.cahi.org/index.asp
Federation of American Hospitals	http://www.fah.org
Grantmakers in Health	http://www.gih.org
Georgetown Public Policy Institute	http://gppi.georgetown.edu/
Medical Group Management Association	http://www.mgma.com
National Association for Rural Mental Health	http://www.narmh.org
National Association of Community Health Centers	http://www.nachc.com
National Association of Health Data Organizations	http://www.nahdo.org/
National Network of Public Health Institutes	http://www.nnphi.org/home/
AcademyHealth	http://www.academyhealth.org
Colorado Medical Society	http://www.cms.org/Home/CMSHome.html
Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council	http://cbhc.org/
Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence	http://coloradonursingcenter.org/
Colorado Chapter, American Physical Therapy Association	http://aptaco.org/
Colorado Chapter, National Association of Social Workers	http://naswco.org/
Colorado Dental Association	http://cdaonline.org/
Colorado Dental Hygienists' Association	http://www.codha.org/home.htm
Colorado Nurses Association	http://nurses-co.org/default.asp
Colorado Pharmacists Society	http://copharm.org/
Colorado Psychological Association	http://www.coloradopsych.org/default.aspx
Colorado Society for Respiratory Care	http://www.colosrc.org/index.html
Colorado Federation of LPNs	http://nflpn.org/stateorganizations.htm
Colorado Academy of Physician Assistants	http://www.coloradopas.org
Rural Health Careers Colorado	http://www.ruralhealthcareerscolorado.org/
FIRST for Medical Education	http://www.aamc.org/programs/first/
Quick Facts About Colorado Social Workers	http://workforce.socialworkers.org/states/Colorado.pdf

Special Interest

Colorado Children's Campaign	http://www.coloradokids.org
Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative	http://www.coloradoguidelines.org
Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved	http://www.ccmu.org
Colorado Community Health Network	http://www.cchn.org
Colorado Consumer Health Initiative	http://www.cohealthinitiative.org
Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition	http://www.ccdconline.org
Colorado Foundation for Medical Care	http://www.cfmc.org
Colorado Minority Health Forum	http://www.coloradominorityhealthforum.org
Colorado Rural Health Center	http://www.coruralhealth.org/crhc/index.html
Empower Colorado	http://www.empowercolorado.com/
Families USA	http://www.familiesusa.org
Family Voices of Colorado	http://www.familyvoicesco.org
Health Care for All Colorado	http://www.healthcareforallcolorado.org/
Healthcare Leadership Council	http://www.hlc.org
Medicare Rights Center	http://www.medicarerights.org
National Alliance on Mental Illness	http://www.nami.org
National Coalition on Health Care	http://www.nchc.org
National Health Law Program	http://www.healthlaw.org
National Rural Health Association	http://www.nrharural.org
National Women's Health Network	http://www.nwhn.org
The Arc	http://www.thearc.org
The Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health –Colorado Chapter	http://www.coloradofederation.org
The National Council on the Aging	http://www.ncoa.org
AARP	http://www.aarp.org