kaiserEDU BRINGS NEW RESOURCES
TO STUDENTS AND FACULTY INTERESTED IN HEALTH POLICY
Menlo Park, Calif. – Expanding its health policy analysis and information resources, the Kaiser Family Foundation is launching kaiserEDU, a new online resource for the academic community.
The free service, now online at www.kaiserEDU.org, was developed specifically for use by faculty and students across the country who are interested in health policy. kaiserEDU provides a range of information – compiled from the Foundation’s own work as well as that of the larger health policy and research community – that can be used as an integral part of an academic course or as an additional source for independent research.
“Through this site we hope to encourage interest by young people in health policy and support educators who are hoping to develop the next generation of health policy leaders,” said Drew E. Altman, Ph.D., president and CEO of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Current resources examine such subjects as the Medicare prescription drug benefit, health coverage for the uninsured, Medicaid, medical errors and nursing shortages. In the next few months, kaiserEDU will add material on topics such as HIV/AIDS, racial disparities, long term care, women's health, and private health insurance.
Bringing together the most recent policy analysis, news, academic literature, historical information, public opinion research, and webcasts and multimedia presentations, kaiserEDU materials can serve as virtual textbooks providing real-time information on policy issues and debates. These online modules were designed so professors can easily assign some or all of them as reading/viewing for their students’ coursework. Faculty and students can also use them as a resource for research projects.
kaiserEDU features include:
Issue Modules focusing on specific policy issues and featuring key sources of data; the latest proposals and analysis; links to the academic literature, news, public opinion; and webcasts. Modules include:
The New Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
Expanding Health Coverage for the Uninsured
Reducing Medical Errors
Addressing the Nursing Shortage
Syllabus Library containing syllabi from health policy related courses from across the country.
Tutorials using multimedia presentations to educate users on policy topics and research methods.
Reference Libraries providing bibliographies and background information on broad health policy topic areas.
Additional Online Resources from the Kaiser Family Foundation
www.kff.org - The Kaiser Family Foundation’s main Web site provides complete access to the Foundation’s reports, surveys, issue briefs, charts, and fact sheets containing in-depth analysis and the public’s views on timely and critical issues such as the rising numbers of uninsured, Medicare reform, how states’ fiscal situations are affecting Medicaid, rising health care costs, global HIV/AIDS, racial disparities, and women’s health policy. Reports and analyses by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured are also featured.
www.kaisernetwork.org - An online resource for non-partisan, timely, and in-depth coverage of health policy developments, debates, and discussions, provides: summaries of the latest press coverage of health policy on Capitol Hill and in the states; background information on health policy issues; transcripts and live and archived webcasts of congressional hearings, issue-based briefings, and other health policy events; and polling information on more than 300 health topics.
www.statehealthfacts.org - Provides up-to-date and easy-to-use health information and data on all 50 states, covering a broad range of topics including health insurance coverage and the uninsured, state legislative policies, Medicaid, Medicare, health care costs, prescription drugs, health status, and population demographics. The information can be displayed as tables or color-coded maps, and raw data may be downloaded for custom analyses.
