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• Daily HealthBeat Tip Podcasts Details

  - Link to various HealthBeat podcasts, many of which are HSR-related.

• Dakota Conference on Rural and Public Health Details

  - June 13-15, 2018 Grand Forks, ND.

• Dangling A Carrot For Patients To Take Healthy Steps: Does It Work? Details

  - Health plans, medical practices and some Medicaid programs are increasingly offering financial incentives to motivate Medicaid patients to engage in more preventive care and make healthier lifestyle choices.

• Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care Details

  - The Dartmouth Atlas Project documents glaring variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project uses Medicare data to provide comprehensive information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as individual hospitals and their affiliated physicians. The website provides access to reports and publications, as well as interactive tools to allow visitors to view specific regions and perform their own comparisons and analyses.

• Dashboard Collaborative Pilot Change Package (June 2017) Details

  - The Dashboard Collaborative uses an established quality improvement approach - the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) Breakthrough Series Collaborative - to implement the NNOHA Health Center Dental Dashboard© of oral health quality measures to enhance the quality of oral health services in health center dental programs.

• DATA - Data Across Sectors for Health Details

  - DASH is a national initiative to support multi-sector collaborations sharing data and information to improve the health of their communities.

• Data and Program Reports Details

  - Starting from February 2016, Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records Incentive Program payment and registration data in report form are available.

• Data and Research Details

  - Facts, figures, and statistics related to aging populations and individuals with disabilities.

• Data and Statistics: Tools & Maps Details

  - This site provides access to several NYC tools for statistical analysis, including: Epiquery, Environmental Public Health Tracking portal, Birth and Death Records, Childhood Lead Poisoning, Injury, Pregnancy Risks and The Geographical Information System (GIS) Center.

• The Data Are In: Health Care Quality Continues to Improve, But Disparities Persist Details

  - AHRQ just released the 2016 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report, an annual report which provides an annual report card on the status of the Nation's health care. Its findings are based on more than 250 measures of quality and disparities, covering a broad array of health care services and settings.

• Data Book: Beneficiaries Dually Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid (2017) Details

  - The data book presents information on the demographic and other personal characteristics, expenditures, and health care utilization of individuals who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid coverage.

• A Data Book: Health Care Spending and the Medicare Program (June 2017) Details

  - The MedPAC Data Book provides information on national health care and Medicare spending, beneficiary demographics, dual-eligible beneficiaries, quality of care, liability, provider settings, and access to care.

• Data Collection Standards for Race, Ethnicity, Sex, Primary Language, and Disability Status Details

  - Data collection standards for measures of race, ethnicity, sex, primary language, and disability status that are to be used in all national population health surveys.

• Data for Individual Health (2014) Details

  - Building on the JASON study, this report looked at the possibilites of developing a health data infrastructure capable of bridging from a health IT technology vision focused on the care of individuals to one focused on the health of individuals.

• Data Harmonization Advisory Committee Details

  - Consists of members from the PHSSR community including: National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO), Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH), local, state and federal systems researchers and academic institutions. Its main goal is to review the primary data survey instruments used by NACCHO, ASTHO and NALBOH to collect program activity data, governance and population data of local & state governing bodies of health throughout the nation.

• Data Literacy Details

  - A collection of course materials and syllabi on data literacy.

• Data Locator Details

  - Provides a categorized collection of mostly free or inexpensive resources that will answer specific data, i.e. numerical, questions.

• Data Management for NSF EHR Directorate (2011) Details

  - Guidance from the NSF regarding data sharing for projects using data from electronic health records.

• Data Management Planning Details

  - A guide to data management.

• Data Methods Toolkit Details

  - Provides information on qualitative methods which are most often used in implementation research and quantitative methods most often used in impact evaluation

• Data Note: 10 Charts About Public Opinion on Medicaid Details

  - A quick look at the public's views of Medicaid, the government health insurance and long-term care program for low-income adults and children, from recent Kaiser Family Foundation polls.

• Data Note: Changes in 2017 Federal Navigator Funding Details

  - A discussion of the effects of funding cuts to Federal Navigator programs.

• Data Note: Medicaid Managed Care Growth and Implications of the Medicaid Expansion Details

  - This Data Note discusses the current role of managed care in Medicaid and addresses differences in managed care growth between states that expanded Medicaid to low-income adults under the Affordable Care Act.

• Data Note: Medicaid's Role in Providing Access to Preventive Care for Adults Details

  - This data note focuses on Medicaid's role in providing access to preventive care for low-income adults.

• Data Note: Public's Views of a National Health Plan Details

  - This data note discusses the October Kaiser Tracking Poll's results on the public's view of a national health (or single payer) plan system in the U.S.

• Data Note: Strongly Held Views on the ACA Details

  - Data note evaluates public opinion on the ACA between 2010 and the present.

• Data Note: Variation in Per Enrollee Medicaid Spending Details

  - To understand the potential implications of the AHCA's per capita cap proposals, this data note shows variation in per full-benefit enrollee spending by state and eligibility group.

• Data Platform 2.0 Details

  - A data hub with 17,000 data points across 28 large cities, allowing users to examine a number of pressing health issues impacting urban communities across the country.

• Data Quality Assessment of the 2014 Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander National Health Interview Survey (August 2017) Details

  - This report assesses the quality of the 2014 NHPI NHIS data, by examining if and how estimates of NHPI population characteristics calculated using the survey's data differ from estimates of the same characteristics calculated using data from two other sources: the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (the sampling frame for the 2014 NHPI NHIS) and the annual NHIS for combined years 2010-2014.

• Data Repository - Colorado Health Institute Details

  - Data from Colorado counties, also arranged under broad topics. The repository is also searchable.

• Data Resource Center for Child & Adolescent Health Details

  - National, regional, and state-based data on over 100 indicators from the National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH), National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), and the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS-CSHCN).

• Data Science at NIH
• Data Science Fellowship Details

  - The Data Incubator is a Cornell-funded data science training organization. It is a free advanced 8-week fellowship for PhDs looking to enter industry. Fellows have the option to participate in the program either in person in New York City, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Boston, Washington DC, or online.

• Data Science MOOCs Details

  - A series of online programs, available for credit or for self-learning.

• Data Security in Mobile Healthcare Environments: Strategies for Success Details

  - One-hour on-demand webinar. Registration is required.

• Data Snapshot: 2016 Child Poverty Rate Sees Largest Decline Since Before Great Recession (September 2017) Details

  - Child poverty declined by 1.2 percentage points between 2015 and 2016, according to analyses of the official poverty measure (OPM) in the latest American Community Survey. By 2016, child poverty across the nation was still 1.5 percentage points higher than before the Great Recession.

• Data Standards for Clinical Research and Drug Development (U24) Details

  - The FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research is encouraging applications for projects to expedite development of data standards and terminologies to support human drug development and evaluation. The primary objective is to support research and the development of non-proprietary, consensus-based, national data standards for use in clinical studies of human drugs and biologics.

• Data Tools and Apps Details

  - Site provides a listing of interactive applications for use and manipulation of Census survey data (e.g., American Fact Finder, DataFerrett, Censtats, etc.)

• DATA USA Details

  - Website contains data sets for public US government data, as well as mapping, visualization, and comparison tools.

• Data, Data Everywhere, but Access Remains a Big Issue for Researchers: A Review of Access Policies for Publicly-Funded Patient-Level Health Care Data in the United States Details

  - A review of data access policies for many publicly funded federal and state datasets from the 2016 eGems.

• Data, Tools and Statistics Details

  - A collection of links to data sources for health services research.

• Data-Pop Alliance Details

  - An international collaboration on big data, designed to promote people-centered big data.

• Data.CDC.gov Details

  - Allows users to browse a sample of CDC's popular data sets and create visualizations of data to embed on websites that update automatically when data changes.

• Data.CMS.gov Details

  - This tool derives its data from the Physician and Other Supplier Public Use File, describing care delivered to Medicare beneficiaries in the fee-for-service program.

• DATA.gov Details

  - Provides access to datasets generated by the Federal Government and includes descriptions of the datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets.

• DATA2GO.NYC Details

  - Online mapping and data tool with federal, state, and city data on multiple indicators, including demographics, education, environment, food systems, housing, health, poverty, and safety.

• Database of HSR&D Citations Details

  - Updated monthly, this searchable database contains citations from journals, meetings, conferences, and reports that are credited to VA HSR&D researchers.

• Database of Promoting Health Effectiveness Reviews (DoPHER) Details

  - Focused coverage of systematic and non-systematic reviews of effectiveness in health promotion and public health worldwide. This register currently contains details of over 2,500 reviews of health promotion and public health effectiveness.

• Databaseof Instruments for Resource Use Measurement (DIRUM) Details

  - DIRUM is an open-access database of resource-use questionnaires for use by health economists involved in trial-based economic evaluations

• DataFinder Details

  - Search for indicators and locations, and create custom reports.

• DataONE Data Catalog Details

  - DataONE search allows the user to search 168,000 publicly accessible data packages, with information relevant to community-related health research.

• DataONE Webinar Series Details

  - One-hour Webinars on data science occur monthly at 9am (PT) on the second Tuesday of the month.

• DataScience@NIH Blog Details

  - It is intended to serve as a news and discussion vehicle for the overall community and is an opportunity for the NIH Office of the Associate Director for Data Science to present timely information and receive important feedback.

• Dating Matters: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships - Capacity Assessment and Planning Tool (DM-CAPT) Details

  - DM-CAPT is a free online tool that allows comprehensive teen dating prevention initiatives to assess their capacity to implement comprehensive teen dating violence prevention programs by surveying stakeholders.

• Dating Matters: Understanding Teen Dating Violence Prevention Details

  - This free online course is designed to communicate the relevance of teen dating violence prevention to educators, school personnel, youth leaders, and others working to improve the health of teens. It is part of a set of tools which allows comprehensive teen dating prevention initiatives to assess their capacity to implement comprehensive teen dating violence prevention programs by surveying stakeholders.

• David and Lucile Packard Foundation Details

  - The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a private foundation located in California that invests in and takes smart risks with innovative people and organizations to improve the lives of children, enable the creative pursuit of science, advance reproductive health, and conserve and restore earth's natural systems.

• David Carney Slides
• DBH Training Institute: Behavioral Health Education & e-Learning Details

  - Classroom and online training events sponsored by the DC Department of Behavioral Health Training Institute.

• DCCPS Public Data Sets & Analyses Details

  - Public use data resources in the areas of: quality of cancer care, the economic burden of cancer, geographic information systems, statistical methods, communication science, tobacco control, and the translation of research into practice.

• Deaths Involving Fentanyl, Fentanyl Analogs, and U-47700 - 10 States, July-December 2016 Details

  - Preliminary estimates of U.S. drug overdose deaths exceeded 60,000 in 2016 and were partially driven by a fivefold increase in overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids (excluding methadone), from 3,105 in 2013 to approximately 20,000 in 2016.

• Debunk the Myths: Grant Application Video Series
• Decades of Evidence Demonstrate That Early Childhood Programs Can Benefit Children and Provide Economic Returns Details

  - An updated comprehensive review of rigorous evaluations of early childhood programs confirms and strengthens RAND researchers' findings from previous syntheses showing that many early childhood programs can improve a range of outcomes for children.

• December 14, 2011, Quality Net Conference - Speech by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Details

  - This links to the speech made by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at the CMS QualityNet Conference.

• Decision Making in Cancer: Single-Event Decisions
• Decision Support Tools Improved in 2018 but Vary Across States Details

  - This chart outlines the changes in health insurance decision support tools aimed at consumers making choices within the various state marketplaces.

• Decisions in Recovery: Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder (2017) Details

  - This tool from SAMHSA provides resources on opioid use disorder recovery, recovery support, and treatment.

• Declining Medicaid Fees and Primary Care Availability for New Medicaid Patients Details

  - Primary care appointment availability for new Medicaid patients declined when Medicaid fees for providers decreased after the ACA-mandated "fee bump" expired.

• Defining an Accountable Community for Health for Children and Families Details

  - Building upon a variety of community-based models funded by the federal government, states, and private funders, as well as CMS' Accountable Health Communities Model, this paper adapts these models of integrated care to seamlessly address the medical, social, and developmental needs of children and families, with a focus on shared accountability across sectors as well as financial sustainability.

• Delaware Health Information and Statistics Details

  - Access statistics and demographics.

• Delaware Health Professional Workforce Reports Details

  - Reports and statistics on the health workforce in Delaware.

• The DELTA FOCUS Program: Intimate Partner Violence is Preventable Details

  - DELTA FOCUS (Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancements and Leadership Through Alliances, Focusing on Outcomes for Communities United with States) is a five-year cooperative agreement funding a 10 state domestic violence coalition (Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island) to engage in primary prevention of intimate partner violence.

• Demand-Driven Open Data Details

  - DDOD is a framework of tools and methodologies to provide a systematic, ongoing and transparent mechanism. Users may request specific data for their own use case.

• Demographic and Health Characteristics of Transgender Adults in California: Findings from the 2015-2016 California Health Interview Survey Details

  - This report provides information on demographics, health, and health care access among transgender adults in California who participated in the 2015-2016 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).

• Demographics and Health Care Access and Utilization of Limited-English-Proficient and English-Proficient Hispanics (2008) Details

  - This report is based on data from the 2004 Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-HC). Updates to prior work are presented through a profile of LEP Hispanic adults and their health care using a large national sample and a respondent-report measure of English proficiency.

• Demonstrating Impact of a Model Pediatric EHR Format Details

  - This model EHR record format for children is the result of a grant to 10 states, and several states will be evaluating the project.

• Demonstrating the Value of Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Programs Details

  - Report analyzes literature on MLTSS program outcomes as well as responses from 12 states regarding their progress toward attaining MLTSS goals and challenges in collecting data to document progress.

• Demonstrating the Value of Medicaid MLTSS Programs (May 2017) Details

  - This report provides results of a survey of states with MLTSS (managed long-term services and supports) programs to provide evidence of their value.

• Dental Access in Rural Maryland: Innovative Approaches to Care (October 2017) Details

  - White paper provides an overview of the difficulties in accessing dental care in isolated rural communities, how health services can be provided in non-traditional settings, and how new partnerships can be formed to meet the community needs. (Maryland Rural Health Association)

• Department of Defense (DOD) Details

  - The DOD funds health services research studies, e.g., impact of discrimination on medical care and quality of life for breast cancer survivors; quality of care indicators for early-stage prostate cancer.

• Department of Defense (DOD) Upcoming Events Details

  - Current and past media events, briefings, and other opportunities.

• Department of Defense: Telehealth Use in Fiscal Year 2016 Details

  - GAO report analyzes the Department of Defense's use of telehealth services.

• Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) Details

  - DHSS is the government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services.

• Department of Health and Human Services Event Support Site Details

  - Browse HHS events by agency.

• Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research & Development Funding Details

  - This page provides information on Veterans Administration HSR&D funding programs and research solicitations.

• Department of Veterans Affairs/Health Services Research and Development Meetings Details

  - Highlights HSR&D's upcoming and past meetings.

• Design and Analysis of Individually Randomized Group Treatment Trials in Public Health Details

  - April 24, 2018 11:00am-12:00pm ET.

• Design and Implementation of N-of-1 Trials: A User's Guide (2014) Details

  - This document discusses the design and implementation of n-of-1 trials.

• Design and Operation of the National Survey of Children's Health, 2011-2012 (July 2017) Details

  - This report presents the development, plan, and operation of the 2011-2012 National Survey of Children's Health, a survey designed to produce national and state prevalence estimates of the physical and emotional health of children aged 0-17 years, as well as factors including medical homes, family interactions, parental health, school and after-school experiences, and neighborhood characteristics.

• Design Considerations for Nursing Facility Quality Improvement Initiatives in Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Programs Details

  - This brief examines four key considerations for states developing nursing facility quality improvement initiatives: (1) using existing data sources when possible to reduce provider burden; (2) enlisting the help of internal or external quality measurement experts; (3) seeking stakeholder engagement and support; and (4) understanding how the initiative may influence beneficiary protections and access to care.

• Designing an Exchange: A Toolkit for State Policymakers Details

  - Designed to provide technical assistance to states, this legislative toolkit will assist with the design of health insurance Exchanges.

• Designing Consumer Health IT: A Guide for Developers and Systems Designers (2012) Details

  - This guide is aimed at IT developers, and presents the 10 recommendations that can be used to produce outstanding consumer IT products.

• Designing Health Literate Mobile Apps Details

  - This discussion paper presents a case study to assist developers in creating health literate mobile apps.

• Designing Tools and Activities for Data Literacy Learners (2016) Details

  - A paper from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that proposes to better support individual learning to read and speak with data, tool designers and educators must design with strong pedagogical principles in mind.

• Despair in the American Heartland? A Focus on Rural Health Details

  - The October 2017 issue of the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) focuses on the health of rural US populations. Individual articles may require a subscription to view.

• Detailed reports on the financial outlook for Social Security's Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) Trust Funds Details

  - The Social Security Act requires that the Board, among other duties, report annually to the Congress on the actuarial (financial) status of the OASI and DI Trust Funds.

• Detecting and Preventing Suicide Behavior, Ideation and Self-Harm in Youth in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System (R01 Clinical Trial Required) Details

  - This initiative supports research to test the effectiveness of combined strategies to both detect and intervene to reduce the risk of suicide behavior, suicide ideation, and non-suicidal self-harm (NSSI) by youth in contact with the juvenile justice system.

• Determinants of Health Series: Food Insecurity Details

  - Guide highlights strategies and programs of hospitals and health care systems to reduce food insecurity in their communities.

• Determining and Controlling the Cost of Health Care Details

  - A health policy Snapshot looks at health care price transparency and the ways in which to create a more efficient health care delivery model.

• Determining Performance Benchmarks for a Medicaid Value-Based Payment (January 2018) Details

  - This brief describes approaches that state Medicaid programs can consider when developing the benchmarks, or standards against which to judge performance, for value-based payment programs.

• Dev4Health Details

  - April 30-May 1, 2018; Cleveland, OH.

• Developing a Protocol for Observational Comparative Effectiveness Research: A User's Guide Details

  - The intention of this User's Guide is to identify standards and best practices for designing observational comparative effectiveness research.

• Developing Affordable and Accessible Community-Based Housing for Vulnerable Adults: Proceedings of a Workshop Details

  - Summary of a December 2016 on the importance, barriers, design principles, and features of programs to provide accessible housing for older adults and adults with disabilities.

• Developing Affordable and Accessible Community-Based Housing for Vulnerable Adults: Proceedings of a Workshop (2017) Details

  - The result of a December 2016 workshop, this report looks at the availability of affordable housing for older adults and adults with disabilities.

• Developing Healthy Places Details

  - Funding to support healthy housing and neighborhoods, healthy food systems that benefit low-income communities, and equitable transportation and land use.

• Developing Measures of Shared Decision Making (R01) Details

  - A grant to fund applications to develop, test, and evaluate measures of shared decision making between clinicians and patients that can be used to conduct research in clinical settings.

• Developing New Clinical Decision Support to Disseminate and Implement Evidence-Based Research Findings (R18) Details

  - The purposes of this FOA are to develop new, reliable, valid, and usable CDS from evidence-based research findings and then demonstrate its effectiveness to improve care in clinical practice.

• Development of Innovative Informatics Methods and Algorithms for Cancer Research and Management (R21) Details

  - Funding for exploratory/developmental research grant (R21) applications for the development of innovative methods and algorithms in biomedical computing, informatics, and data science addressing priority needs across the cancer research continuum, including cancer biology, cancer treatment and diagnosis, cancer prevention, cancer control and epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities.

• Developmentally Tailored HIV Prevention and Care Research for Adolescents and Young Adults (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) Details

  - Funding for developmentally tailored research focused on adolescents and emerging adults as it relates to HIV prevention and treatment. Research is encouraged to incorporate recent advances in adolescent and young adult developmental research to optimize outcomes in HIV prevention and care research for this heterogeneous population.

• Developmentally Tailored HIV Prevention and Care Research for Adolescents and Young Adults (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Details

  - Funding for developmentally tailored research focused on adolescents and emerging adults as it relates to HIV prevention and treatment. Exploratory research is encouraged to incorporate recent advances in adolescent and young adult developmental research to better understand HIV prevention and care of this heterogeneous population.

• Developmentally Tailored HIV Prevention and Care Research for Adolescents and Young Adults (R34 Clinical Trial Optional) Details

  - Funding for developmentally tailored research focused on adolescents and emerging adults as it relates to HIV prevention and treatment. Research is encouraged to incorporate recent advances in adolescent and young adult developmental research to optimize outcomes in HIV prevention and care research for this heterogeneous population.

• DIA 2018 Global Annual Meeting: Comparative Effectiveness Research in Practice Details

  - Jun 24, 2018 8:30 AM - Jun 28, 2018 12:00 PM, Boston MA

• Diabetes and Forgone Medical Care due to Cost in the U.S. (2011-2015): Individual-level & Placed-based Disparities (August 2017) Details

  - Study identifies trends in diabetes rates and forgone medical care among those with diabetes across the nation and geographic determinants (i.e., place-based) and other social determinants of health disparities.

• Diabetes Management: Interventions Engaging Community Health Workers Details

  - The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends interventions that engage community health workers to help patients manage their diabetes. These interventions have been shown to improve patients' glycemic and lipid control and reduce their healthcare use. Economic evidence indicates these interventions are cost-effective.

• Diabetes Management: Mobile Phone Applications Used Within Healthcare Systems for Type 2 Diabetes Self-Management Details

  - CPSTF recommends the use of diabetes self-management mobile phone applications (apps), when implemented in healthcare systems, to improve blood glucose among patients with type 2 diabetes.

• Diabetes Mortality in Rural America: 1999-2015 (August 2017) Details

  - Study analyzed mortality caused by diabetes over a sixteen-year period and explored the roles played by rurality and race in this process.

• Diabetes Occurrence, Costs, and Access to Care among Medicare Beneficiaries Aged 65 Years and Over (September 2017) Details

  - Using data from the 2013 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), this report presents prevalence and access to care patterns of persons with type 1 and type 2 diabetes among Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and over.

• Diabetes Prevention Impact Toolkit Details

  - Interactive online tool to help employers, insurers, and state health departments weight the costs and benefits of National DPP lifestyle change programs, including cost of delivering of lifestyle change program, health benefit resulting from the program, life years gained, cost-effectiveness, and return on investment.

• Diabetes-Related Hospital Mortality in Rural America: A Significant Cause for Concern (March 2018) Details

  - This study examines trends and rates of diabetes-related hospital deaths for persons hospitalized in the U.S., with emphasis on rural versus urban differences. (Southwest Rural Health Research Center)

• Diagnosed HIV Infection among Adults and Adolescents in Metropolitan Statistical Areas-United States and Puerto Rico, 2014 Details

  - The CDC published their updated HIV Surveillance Supplemental Report in May 2016, which includes HIV infection diagnoses reported to the CDC as of July 2015.

• Diagnostic and Treatment Guidelines on Domestic Violence (1992) Details

  - These guidelines are intended to: provide an overview of the issue, assist in identification of victims through screening, help in the assessment of impact, provide questions to meaningful responses, provide resources for referral and the legal aspects of reporting requirements.

• Did the Affordable Care Act's Dependent Coverage Expansion Affect Race/Ethnic Disparities in Health Insurance Coverage? Details

  - RAND-funded study looked at the impact of the dependent coverage expansion on insurance disparities across race/ethnic groups. Full article access requires a subscription.

• Differences Among Older Adults in the Types of Dental Services Used in the United States Details

  - This open-access article from INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing explores differences in the socioeconomic, demographic characteristics of older adults in the US with respect to their use of different types of dental care.

• Differences Between Rural and Urban Areas in Mortality Rates for the Leading Causes of Infant Death: United States, 2013-2015 Details

  - This report describes the mortality rates for the five leading causes of infant, neonatal, and postneonatal death in the United States across rural, small and medium urban, and large urban counties defined by maternal residence, as reported on the birth certificate for combined years 2013-2015.

• The Differences in Characteristics Among Households With and Without Obese Children: Findings From USDA's FoodAPS (September 2017) Details

  - Using data from USDA's 2012 National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS), this study examines characteristics of households with at least one obese child (obese-child households) and without any obese children (nonobese-child households) to understand potential reasons behind the dissimilar risks.

• Differences in Community Characteristics of Sole Community Hospitals (November 2017) Details

  - Brief present a snapshot of sole community hospitals (SCH) and the communities served by them in 2015 and identifies some trends in selected SCH and community characteristics between 2006 and 2015.

• Differences in Payments for Child Visits to Office-Based Physicians: Private versus Medicaid Insurance, 2010 to 2015 Details

  - This Statistical Brief uses MEPS-HC data for each year from 2010 through 2015 to examine trends and differentials in total payments per visit for child visits to office-based physicians covered by Medicaid versus Private insurance. In addition, data for 2014-15 were pooled in order to examine estimates of Medicaid/Private payment gaps by Census geographic region and by specialty type.

• Diffusion Of Community Health Workers Within Medicaid Managed Care: A Strategy To Address Social Determinants Of Health Details

  - Post describes how community health workers can fill the gap of addressing the social determinants of health often found within the health care and Medicaid systems.

• Diffusion of Medical Procedures And Technology Details

  - A publicly available source providing researchers, payers, regulators, and innovators with metrics quantifying the temporal and regional patterns of diffusion of medical interventions.

• Digging Into the Data: What Can We Learn from the State Evaluation of Healthy Indiana (HIP 2.0) Premiums Details

  - This brief looks at available data from the Indiana's evaluation of premiums prepared by The Lewin Group (as well as other reporting to CMS) to highlight what is known about the impact of these policies to date.

• Digital Bridge Details

  - The vision of the Digital Bridge is to improve the health of our nation by enhancing bidirectional information exchange between public health and health care. A first of its kind initiative, the Digital Bridge has created a forum for key decision makers in the public health, health care and health information technology arenas to collaborate and share challenges, opportunities and ideas towards achieving this vision.

• Digital Health Software Precertification (PreCert) Program Details

  - The Software PreCert Pilot Program is a voluntary program that will enable the FDA to develop a tailored approach toward regulating this technology by looking first at the software developer and/or digital health technology developer, rather than primarily at the product. This pilot will help FDA establish the most appropriate criteria for standing up a firm-based precertification program for these new tools.

• Digital literacy self-assessment
• Digital Repository at the University of Maryland: School of Public Health Details

  - Search or browse by title or author in one of five categories: Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Family Science, Health Services Administration, Kinesiology, or Public and Community Health.

• Diminishing Access to Rural Maternity Care and Associated Changes in Birth Location and Outcomes Details

  - April 26, 2018 1:00-2:00pm ET.

• Director's Webinar Series Details

  - A series of webinars on topics related to behavioral health and socioeconomic aspects of health.

• Directory of Health Organizations Details

  - This link provides access to a database containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine. Each record may contain information on the publications, holdings, and services provided.

• Directory of HHS Data Resources Details

  - Compilation of information about virtually all major data collection systems sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

• Directory of Implementation Science Training Programs (March, 2011) Details

  - This training directory lists fellowships, short-term training programs and other resources for training in the field of dissemination and implementation science (and related fields such as Knowledge Translation, etc.).

• Disability Research and Policy: New Evidence and Promising Ideas Details

  - Presentations from the Disability Research Center Annual Meeting on October 15-16, 2013 are available.

• Disaster Recovery in the Cloud Details

  - This on-demand one-hour webinar looks at the Cloud as a venue for Disaster Recovery.

• Discrimination in America Details

  - The "Discrimination in America" report series focuses on personal experiences with discrimination across more than a dozen areas of daily life. This series is based on a survey among a nationally representative sample of 3,453 adults ages 18 or older, including African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Whites, LGBTQ adults, men and women.

• Discrimination in America: Experiences and Views of LGBTQ Americans Details

  - Report from the series Discrimination in America focuses on individual and institutional discrimination by LGBTQ Americans.

• Discussion Draft - Senate Republican Health Care Bill Details

  - Draft of the Senate's amendments to the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA), H.R. 1628.

• The Dish - What is Precision Medicine? Details

  - Video which explains Precision Medicine.

• Disparities in Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Mental Health Services in the U.S. Details

  - A report which investigates disparities in mental health and mental health services for minority youth.

• Disparities in Health and Health Care: Five Key Questions and Answers Details

  - This brief looks at health care disparities using several factors including race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, geographic location, age, and language.

• Disparities in Hospital-Reported Breast Milk Use in Neonatal Intensive Care Units - United States, 2015 Details

  - Data from the 2015 Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) survey, linked with postal code-level race data from the U.S. Census, found that hospitals in areas with higher percentages of black residents reported lower percentages of infants in the NICU routinely receiving mother's own breast milk or banked donor breast milk than did hospitals in areas with lower percentages of black residents.

• Disparities in Mental Health Services Research Details

  - This program plans, stimulates, disseminates, and supports research on the complex factors that influence disparities in mental health services, particularly across special population groups such as racial and ethnic groups, as well as women and children, and persons living in rural and frontier areas.

• Disparities in Preconception Health Indicators - Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2013-2015, and Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, 2013-2014 Details

  - This report includes overall and stratified estimates for nine preconception health indicators, based on indicators from The National Preconception Health and Health Care Initiative's Surveillance and Research work group. These prioritized indicators can be used by states to monitor programs or activities for improving the preconception health status of women of reproductive age.

• Disparities in Preventive Dental Care Among Children in Georgia Details

  - Study compared access to preventive dental care among low-income children eligible for public dental insurance to access among children with private dental insurance and/or high family income (>400% of the federal poverty level) in Georgia, and the effect of policies toward increasing access to dental care for low-income children.

• Disparities in the Health and Well-Being of Children and Youth in Rural Areas Details

  - A May 2016 webinar from the Altarum Institute that discussed rural childrens' health, mortality, trends, and challenges.

• Disparities in the Quality of Cardiovascular Care Between HIV‐Infected Versus HIV‐Uninfected Adults in the United States: A Cross‐Sectional Study Details

  - Open access study compared use of national guideline‐recommended cardiovascular care during office visits among HIV‐infected versus HIV‐uninfected adults.

• Disparities Leadership Program Details

  - The Disparities Leadership Program (DLP) is a year-long, hands-on executive education program focused exclusively on helping health care leaders achieve equity in quality. The program is designed to help participants translate the latest understanding disparities into realistic solutions that can be adopted within your organization. (The Disparities Solutions Center)

• Disparities Policy
• Disparities Solutions Center Web Seminars Details

  - Web seminars on disparities interventions, findings from important disparities research, and health policy updates regarding disparities reduction efforts.

• Disparity In Longevity Between Black, White Americans Narrowing, But Gap Still Remains Details

  - The report shows the United States has a long way to go before it achieves health equity as blacks in every age group under 65 continue to have significantly higher death rates than whites.

• Dissemination & Implementation Measurement Compendium (2012) Details

  - This white paper provides researchers with a synthesis of validated measurement tools designed to assess D&I-related constructs.

• Dissemination and Implementation Details

  - This website links to dissemination and implementation meetings and webinars.

• Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) Details

  - This FO would support efforts to identify, develop, test, evaluate and/or refine strategies to disseminate and implement evidence-based practices into public health, clinical practice, and community settings

• Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R03) Details

  - This FO would support efforts to identify, develop, test, evaluate and/or refine strategies to disseminate and implement evidence-based practices into public health, clinical practice, and community settings

• Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) Details

  - This FO would support efforts to identify, develop, test, evaluate and/or refine strategies to disseminate and implement evidence-based practices into public health, clinical practice, and community settings

• Dissemination and Implementation Research Program Details

  - This program includes studies that will contribute to the development of a sound knowledge base on the effective transmission of mental health information to multiple stakeholders and of the process by which efficacious interventions can be adopted within clinical settings.

• Dissemination and Implementation Roundtable Details

  - This webinar took place on July 29, 2013. The slides and agenda are available.

• Dissemination and Implementation Science Data Sources Details

  - This website provides access to related data sources and tools, compiled by CHEDIR.

• Dissemination of Rural Health Research: A Toolkit (2015) Details

  - This toolkit is designed to assist researchers in reaching their target audiences through the development of appropriate, timely, accessible, and applicable products.

• Dissemination Toolkit: New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research Details

  - Resources to support the goals of a 2013 workshop on child abuse and neglect are available.

• Distance and Networks: A Regional Analysis of Health Insurance Marketplaces (January 2018) Details

  - Using 2015-16 data on insurance issuer participation, premiums, and enrollment success for 15 Midwestern states, study examined the possibility that geographic distance to care plays a role in this variation through its effect on network adequacy from several angles and attempts to assess the moderating role that state-level policies on network adequacy standards and Rating Area design may have.

• Distance Learning & Telemedicine Grants Details

  - The Distance Learning and Telemedicine program helps rural communities use the unique capabilities of telecommunications to connect to each other and to the world, overcoming the effects of remoteness and low population density.

• Distribution of Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments to Rural and Critical Access Hospitals (November 2017) Details

  - This policy brief provides data assessing effects of Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payment on rural hospitals in 47 states.

• Distribution of Lifetime Medicare Taxes and Spending by Sex and by Lifetime Household Earnings: Working Paper 2017-05 Details

  - A new working paper estimates the distribution of Medicare taxes and spending.

• District of Columbia's Department of Health Details

  - The Mission of the Department of Health is to promote and protect the health, safety and quality of life of residents, visitors and those doing business in the District of Columbia.

• Diversitydata.org
• DiversityDataKids Details

  - This tool allows you to analyze data by race/ethnicity, compare data across states, metropolitan areas, counties, large cities, and large school districts, and compare policy indicators across states.

• Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) Details

  - Mission is to protect patients and healthcare personnel and promote safety, quality, and value in the healthcare delivery system by providing national leadership.

• Do Cultural Competency Interventions Work?: A Systematic Review on Improving Rehabilitation Outcomes for Ethnically and Linguistically Diverse Individuals with Disabilities (2011) Details

  - This Technical Brief from SEDL describes a systematic review which looked at the ability of cultural competency interventions to improve rehabilitation outcomes for ethnically and linguistically diverse individuals with disabilities, and if so, for whom and under what conditions.

• Do Health Impact Assessments Make a Difference?: A National Evaluation of HIAs in the United States Details

  - The methods by which to conduct and screen HIA targets effectively are discussed in this 2014 brief and supplement.

• Do Health Plan Enrollees have Enough Money to Pay Cost Sharing? Details

  - This brief looks at the extent to which people have enough savings to meet the cost sharing requirements under private health insurance policies, which have risen substantially in recent years.

• Do Medicare Advantage Plans Minimize Costs? Investigating the Relationship Between Benchmarks, Costs, and Rebates Details

  - A new issue brief examine how well the current system encourages Medicare Advantage plans to bid their lowest cost by examining the relationship between costs and bonuses, and the benchmarks Medicare uses in determining plan payments.

• Do Medicare Advantage Plans Respond to Payment Changes? A Look at the Data from 2009 to 2014 Details

  - Brief examines changes in per enrollee costs between 2009 and 2014 to better understand how Medicare Advantage plans have continued to thrive even as payments decreased.

• Doctors and Pharmacists: An Underused Resource to Manage Drug Costs for Older Adults Details

  - Report looks at the underutilization of doctors and pharmacists in reducing prescription drug costs, largely because patients do not ask.

• DOD Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs Details

  - Provides a brief description and key elements of all award mechanisms.

• Does where you live affect how long you live? Details

  - A ZIP code is 5 numbers meant to give mail to people-not indicate how long they live. Unfortunately, many US cities and counties have significant gaps in life expectancy, often for residents just a few miles apart. Explore how life expectancy in America compares with life expectancy in your area, and resources to help illuminate these disparities and enable everyone to have the opportunity to live a healthier life.

• Domestic violence and abuse: multi-agency working (NICE) (2014) Details

  - The National Institute on Health and Care Excellence (NICE-UK) have established guidelines on domestic violence and abuse, including violence perpetrated on men, on those in same-sex relationships and on young people.

• Domestic Violence Civil Protection Orders (CPOs) By State (2016) Details

  - A summary of statutes from all 50 states regarding domestic violence.

• Domestic Violence Legislation 2013-2014 Details

  - This document outlines state policies over a two-year period in the areas of domestic violence, victim's rights, and funding for victim services.

• Domestic Violence Quality Assessment/Quality Improvement Tool for Clinics, Hospitals, and Other Health Systems Details

  - A tool which allows healthcare organizations to assess and improve quality of care in relation to domestic violence.

• Domestic Violence Resource Network (DVRN) Details

  - The Network includes two national resource centers, four special issue resource centers, three culturally-specific resource centers, the National Domestic Violence Hotline, and the National LGBTQ DV Capacity Building Learning Center. The DVRN works collaboratively to promote practices and strategies to improve our nation's response to domestic violence.

• Domestic Violence Screening and Assessment Protocol for Preventive Services (2012) Details

  - A set of tools to assist in the screening for child and intimate partner abuse.

• Domestic Violence Shelter Grant Program: Mary Kay Foundation Details

  - Each year, the Foundation awards a grant to at least one domestic violence shelter in every state that applies. Any remaining funds are distributed based on state population.

• Domestic Violence/Domestic Abuse Definitions and Relationships Details

  - This website outlines state laws on domestic violence or abuse, the individual definitions of conduct amounting to domestic violence or abuse, and the relationships which may be considered domestic violence or abuse.

• Domestic Violence: A Public Health Priority Details

  - Domestic violence represents a significant public health problem that has received limited attention from the field of health philanthropy.

• Domestic Violence: Understanding the Basics Details

  - This 1 hour interactive eLearning module is designed to acquaint new advocates and health care professionals with the issues surrounding domestic violence.

• Donor Government Funding for Family Planning in 2016 Details

  - Donor government funding for family planning decreased in 2016 compared to the prior year, with bilateral support falling from $1.34 billion in 2015 to $1.19 billion (-12%).

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• The Downstream Consequences Of Per Capita Spending Caps In Medicaid Details

  - Post outlines the potential impact of changing federal Medicaid financing to a per capita cap system.

• Dr. Know: A Knowledge Commons in Health Details

  - This paper argues for an open system of knowledge, what it would mean, and how to reach the goal.

• Dr. Rima Rudd on Health Literacy Details

  - Dr. Rudd discusses the need to define and develop health literacy environments that support scientific principles, integrate health literacy findings and are conducive to efficacious action at an April 2015 conference.

• Draft Research Plan for Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse of Elderly and Vulnerable Adults: Screening Details

  - The final Research Plan will be used to guide a systematic review of the evidence by researchers at an Evidence-based Practice Center. The resulting Evidence Review will form the basis of the USPSTF Recommendation Statement on this topic.

• Driving Patient Safety and Quality through Opioid Stewardship Details

  - May 1, 2018 8:30am-3:30pm ET; Washington, DC.

• Drought and Your Health Details

  - A discussion of how drought can impact human health, and the public health implications of drought.

• Drug Approvals and Databases Details

  - Links to various FDA databases, i.e., Adverse Event Reporting post-marketing safety surveillance program, Orange Book, Clinical Investigator Inspection List, Bioresearch Monitoring Information System, Dissolution Methods, etc.

• Drug Effectiveness Review Project (DERP) Details

  - Collaboration of the Center for Evidence-based Policy and the Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center who have joined together to produce systematic, evidence-based reviews of the comparative effectiveness and safety of drugs in many widely used drug classes, and to apply the findings to inform public policy and related activities in local settings.

• Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999-2016 Details

  - The age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths in 2016 (19.8 per 100,000) was 21% higher than the rate in 2015 (16.3).

• Drug Overdose Rates Are Highest in Places With the Most Economic and Family Distress (2018) Details

  - Brief analyzes the role of economic and social conditions in drug mortality.

• Drugs and Alcohol: Open Access Sources Details

  - This web portal uses open access initiatives to provide drug abuse prevention, treatment, and policy stakeholders with access to journal articles, monographs, book chapters, conference proceedings, technical manuals, and education and training resources.

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