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Health Care Resources

• Alaska Health Care Data Book: Selected Measures, 2007
• State Health Reform Initiatives - A Comparative Review
• Alaska Physician Supply Task Force report
• Moving Forward
• Alaska State Health Plans and Special Reports
• SORRAS II: Status of Recruitment Resources and Strategies 2005–2006
• Directory of Health Care Sites
• Alaska Senate Medicaid Program Review - Pacific Health Policy Group Report (pdf)
• Long Term Forecast of Medicaid Enrollment and Spending in Alaska: 2005-2025 - Lewin Group Report
• Alaska Long Term Care and Cost Study
• Alaska's $5 Billion Health Care Bill - Who's Paying?
• Alaska Health Care Roundtable
• Alaska Primary Care Health Care-Opportunities and Challenges
• Healthy Alaskans 2010

Following resources added July 2007

Increasing the capacity of people to build better communities—a Municipality of Anchorage Community Building Assessment (McDowell Group, October 2003) (pdf 700KB)

• National Survey of Enrollees in Consumer Directed Health Plans (The Kaiser Family Foundation, November 2006) (210 KB)
• Consumer-Directed Health Plans & Potential Effects on Health Care Spending and Outcomes (Congressional Budget Office, December 2006) (4MB)
• Governor's Council on Disabilities and Special Education (2006-2011 State Plan) (2MB)
• A Framework to Guide Health Care System Reform (McKinsey Global Institute, October 2006) (2.8 MB)
• Impacts of Medicaid and SCHIP on Low-Income Children's Health (The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, May 2007) (87 KB)
• Alaska Health Status Indicators, 1996-2005 (compiled by Alaska Division of Public Health, published December 2006) (2 MB)
• Compass II® Community-Building Assessment, Prepared for United Way of Southeast Alaska (McDowell Group, August 2005) (360 KB)
• Ketchikan Compass II® Community Building Assessment, Report to the Community (Prepared by United Way of Southeast Alaska and McDowell Group, January 2007) (900 KB)
• Massachusetts Health Care Reform Plan (Kaiser Commission, Medicaid and the Uninsured, April 2006) (140 KB)
• Aiming Higher, Results from a State Scorecard on Health System Performance (The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System, June 2007) ( 3 MB)
• 2002 Medicaid Data for the State of Alaska (Muse & Assoc., May 2003) (PowerPoint 1.2 MB)
• Preliminary Exploration of 2002 Mental Health Medicaid Data for the State of Alaska (Muse & Assoc., July 2003) (PowerPoint 1.7 MB)
• Overall Health Cost Implications of Newer Medicines (PowerPoint, 80 KB)
• State Planning Grant: A Project for Studying the Uninsured in Alaska (PowerPoint, 742 KB)
• Health Status Indicators (PowerPoint, 587 KB)
• Behavioral Health in Alaska (PowerPoint, 2.7 MB) Smaller download: Behavioral Health in Alaska (, 700 KB)

Following resources added August 2007

• Privacy and Security Solutions for Interoperable Health Information Exchange:
  Assessment of Variation and Analysis of Solutions Executive Summary (RTI International, June 2007) ( 101 KB)
• Washington State: Blue Ribbon Commission on Health Care Costs and Access Final Report (Blue Ribbon Commission, January 2007) ( 428 KB)
• Framework Assessment of Major Health Reform Proposals in California (Elliot Wicks, Ph.D. for the California HealthCare Foundation, July 2007) ( 96 KB)
• California Governor’s Health Care Proposal (State of California, Governor’s Office, January 2007) ( 120 KB)
• Comparison of California Health Coverage Expansion Proposals (California HealthCare Foundation, July 2007) (78.7 KB)
• CaliforniaSpeaks Preliminary Report (CaliforniaSpeaks, August 2007) (598 KB)
• Privacy and Security Solutions for Interoperable Health Information Exchange:
  Final Implementation Plans Executive Summary (Linda L. Dimitropoulos, PhD RTI International, June 2007) (62 KB)
• Could Health Information Technology Save Your Life? (AARP, DividedWeFail.org) ( 21 KB)
• Health Risks in Alaska Among Adults: Alaska Behavioral Risk Factor Survey, 2006 Annual Report (State of Alaska, Department of Health and Social Services, May 2007) (1.5 MB)
• Statewide Homeless Survey (James Wiedle, Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, winter 2007) ( 77.5 KB)
• Injury Disparities Fact Sheet 1 (Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health, May 2003) ( 341 KB)
• Injury Disparities Fact Sheet 2 (Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health, May 2003) (360 KB)
• Legal and Historical Roots of Health Care for American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States (Brett Lee Shelton, J.D., M.A. forThe Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, February 2004) ( 180 KB)
• Securing an Adequate Number of Physicians for Alaska’s Needs: Alaska Physician Supply Task Force Summary (Health Planning and Systems Development Unit, Alaska Department of Health and Social Services) (PowerPoint 137 KB)
• Commentary: Poor Poverty Yardsticks (Rea S. Hederman, Jr., The Heritage Foundation, September 2006) (24 KB)
• Substitution of doctors by nurses in primary care: Review (The Cochrane Collaboration, 2007) ( 896 KB)
• State Scorecard on Health System Performance (Common Wealth Fund, 2007) ( 427 KB)

Following resources added September 2007

• Alaska Tribal Health System Overview Powerpoint (Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, February 2007) ( 861KB)
• Alaska Tribal Health System history & maps
• Alaska Behavioral Risk Factor Survey (State of Alaska DHSS, May 2007) (833KB)
• Report to Legislative leadership on DHSS progress under SB 61 (DHSS, July 2007) (903KB)
• HBR Next 20 Years Workforce Executive Summary (Harvard Business Review, August 2007) ( 23KB)
• Getting Ready for Reform: Massachusetts (Sharon Long, Mindy Cohen, Urban Institute, Fall 2006) ( 260KB)
• Municipality of Anchorage 10-Year Plan on Obesity and Health (MOA, Department of Health Human Services) ( 215KB)
• 2006 National Health Care Disparities Report (Department of Health & Human Services; AHRQ, December 2006) ( 5.3MB)
• Alaska Poverty Guidelines 2007 (Federal Register, January 2007) ( 281KB)
• State of the States (State Coverage Initiatives; Academy Health, January 2007) ( 1.5MB)
• Presentation on the Uninsured in AK  to Anchorage Chamber of Commerce (Sen. Bill Wielechowski, Sen. Hollis French, and Rep. Les Gara, August 2007) ( 1.4 MB)
• www.statehealthfacts.org
  Statehealthfacts.org is a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and is designed to provide free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data on all 50 states.
• www.alegent.com
  Alegent.com is the main web portal for Alegent Health which is the largest not-for-profit, faith-based healthcare system in Nebraska. This website has interactive cost and quality tools available to citizens of Nebraska.
• Common Wealth Value-Driven HC
  Value-Driven Health Care Purchasing: Four States that are Ahead of the Curve (The Commonwealth Fund, August 2007) ( 591 KB)
• CW Mass Case
  Value-Driven Health Care Purchasing: Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission (The Commonwealth Fund, August 2007) ( 277 KB)
• CW Minn Case
  Value-Driven Health Care Purchasing: Case Study of Minnesota’s Smart Buy Alliance (The Commonwealth Fund, August 2007) ( 264 KB)
• CW Wash Case
  Value-Driven Health Care Purchasing: Case Study of Washington State’s Puget Sound Health Alliance (The Commonwealth Fund, August 2007) (252 KB)
• CW Wisc Case
  Value-Driven Health Care Purchasing: Case Study of Wisconsin’s Department of Employee Trust Funds (The Commonwealth Fund, August 2007) ( 272 KB)
• Fishermen HC
  Alaska Fishermen’s Health Care Press Release/Challenges & Opportunities (United Fishermen of Alaska, August 2007  ) ( 99 KB)
• HR 976 SCHIP Bill in Congress
  HR 976 SCHIP Bill in Congress (House of Representatives, August 2007) ( 351 KB)
• Triple Solution GSK
  Changing the Debate on Healthcare Costs in the US (GlaxoSmithKline, January 2007) ( 331 KB)
• Underage Drinking Plan
  Plan to Reduce and Prevent Underage Drinking (SOA: Alaska Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking, August 2007) ( 2.3 MB)

Following resources added October 2007

• Alaska State Plan for Senior Services (SOA: Alaska Commission on Aging, June 2007) ( 2.2 MB)
• Covering a Nation: Our Vision for U.S. Health Care (Catholic Health Association of the United States, 2007) ( 276 KB)
• Alaska Legislature Joint Senate HESS/Senate LC Committee Meeting (September 2007) ( 49 KB)
• Leading the Way: State Health Reform Efforts (National Governors’ Association, July 2007) ( 187 KB)
• Access to State-Funded Brain Injury Services in Virginia (Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, September 2007) ( 3.4 MB)
• The Massachusetts Health Reform: Assessing Its Significance and Progress (The Heritage Foundation, September 2007) ( 866 KB)
• State-Based Health Reform: A Comparison of Health Insurance Exchanges and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (The Heritage Foundation, June 2007) ( 138 KB)
• University of Alaska Behavioral Health Programs | Behavioral Health Alliance | UA Statewide Health Programs (University of Alaska Behavioral Health Program, August 2007) ( 452 KB)
• The Quality of Ambulatory Care Delivered to Children in the United States (The New England Journal of Medicine, October 2007) ( 135 KB)