Endowment for Health - Resources

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The following links will take you to the web sites of selected local, regional, and national organizations and foundations.

Grant Writing

EH Evaluation Handbook: http://www.endowmentforhealth.org/_docs/37.doc

This handbook is intended to support Endowment grantees and others in their evaluation and project improvement processes.
EH Outcomes Evaluation Plan Guidelines: http://www.endowmentforhealth.org/_docs/38.doc

Guidelines to help Grantees complete an Outcomes Evaluation Plan
Enhancing Program Performance with Logic Models: http://www1.uwex.edu/ces/lmcourse/

Produced by the University of Wisconsin, Extension, this is an on-line course on developing a logic model. Provides an overview and extensive discussion about components of a logic model, with much supplementary material.
Evaluation Resources-University of Wisconsin: http://www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande/evaluation/index.html

Evaluation resources from the University of Wisconsin, Extension.
Taking Stock: A Practical Guide to Evaluating Your Own Programs: http://www.horizon-research.com/publications/stock.pdf

Developed by Horizon Research, this manual provides: an overview of program evaluation including defining goals and objectives, quantitative and qualitative data, strategies for data collection and making use of data.
User-Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation: http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/rec/programs/evaluation/handbook/

Developed by the National Science Foundation, this handbook provides a basic understanding of selected approaches to evaluation. Includes an overview of the evaluation process, data collection and analysis and report writing. Support materials include examples of project evaluations, things to consider when hiring an evaluator, a glossary and a bibliography.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook: http://www.wkkf.org/Pubs/Tools/Evaluation/Pub3669.pdf

Developed by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, this handbook provides a framework for thinking about evaluation as a relevant and useful program tool. Includes an overview of the evaluation landscape and a step-by-step blueprint for conducting project-level evaluation based on a logic model approach.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Logic Model Development Guide: http://www.wkkf.org/Pubs/Tools/Evaluation/Pub3669.pdf

Developed by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the guide provides a discussion of the program logic model and its importance for program planning and evaluation planning. It includes templates and other tools to help develop a logic model and identify evaluation questions.

Health Information

A Pound of Prevention: http://www.steppingupnh.org/secure/docs/032207%20Pound%20of%20Prevention.pdf

NH Citizens Health Initiative
Assessing Language Interpretation Capacity Among NH Health Care Providers: http://www.accessproject.org/downloads/Interpreter%20Capacity%20Report.pdf

Nancy Kohn, The Access Project; Beau Stubblefield-Tave, The Cultural Imperative; Robert Seifert, The Access Project
Barriers to Primary Care - The NH Access Indicator Project: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dbott/report/

The intent of the NH Access Indicator Project is to provide NH policy makers and researchers with information about the scope and nature of barriers to primary care access within geographic areas most directly related to patient primary care utilization patterns.
Children's Mental Health In New Hampshire: http://www.nhpolicy.org/CMH%20Prevalence%20September%202007.pdf

NH Center for Public Policy Studies
Children's Mental Health in NH: Evidence Based Practice: http://www.nhpolicy.org/CMH%20EBPs%20September%202007.pdf

NH Center for Public Policy Studies
Few and Far Between? Children's Mental Health Providers in NH: http://www.nhpolicy.org/CMH%20Workforce%20September%202007.pdf

NH Center for Public Policy Studies
Filling the Gaps: Oral Health in America: http://www.oralhealthamerica.org/Oral%20Health%20Report%20Final1.pdf

Provides a report card for oral health in America in 2001. This project was funded in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and gives grades of A through F to prevention, access to care, oral health leadership, and oral health status.
Financing NH Hospitals: Cost Shifting in 2005: http://www.nhpolicy.org/hospital_costshift_2007.pdf

This paper is one of a series published by the NH Center for Public Policy Studies on the broad topic of health-care finance and insuring the NH workforce. The Concord-based Endowment for Health has sponsored this work.
Fourth NE Regional Minority Health Conference: http://www.une.edu/chp/transcultural/conference.html

The topic of the Fourth New England Regional Minority Health Conference will be "Eliminating Health Disparities by 2010: Assessing our Impact and Meeting the Challenge." The conference, co-hosted by the University of New England and the Maine Bureau of Health, will be held April 10-12, 2005 at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland.
Girls Speak Up!: http://www.adolescence.unh.edu/Girls%20Speak%20Up%20Report.pdf

Conversations with Young Women About Critical Issues in Their Lives, UNH Center on Adolescence - UNH
Mental Health Services for NH's Children: http://www.nhpolicy.org/CMH%20Service%20Use%20and%20Cost%20September%202007.pdf

NH Center for Public Policy Studies
NAMI NH Children's Mental Health Report: http://www.naminh.org/NHChildrensMHReport2007.php

The NH Children's Mental Health Focus Groups were convened by The National Alliance on Mental Illness NH (NAMI NH) in New Hampshire.
New Hampshire Health Data Inventory: http://www.nhhealthdata.org

This website provides statistics for several areas of health and health care in New Hampshire for the purpose of connecting community residents to health data and data sources.
Oral Health Bibliography: http://dentalpipeline.columbia.edu/resources_fr.html

A bibliography of Oral Health literature regarding dental health for the underserved, enrollment of minority and low-income students in dental schools, and community-based oral education programs.
Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General: http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/sgr/execsumm.htm

The Executive Summary of the Surgeon General's report.
Peeling the Onion: Inpatient Hospital Care in NH: http://www.unh.edu/nhcpps/health/discharges.pdf

This paper is one of a series to be published by the NH Center for Public Policies Studies on the broad topic of health care financing and insuring the NH workforce.
Project on Health Care Finance:: http://www.unh.edu/nhcpps/efhproject.htm

Covering the Uninsured in New Hampshire & Keeping Health Care Accessible
Describes a research project by the NH Center for Public Policy Studies. The project is sponsored by a grant from the Endowment for Health and will identify public policy proposals that will reduce the percentage of New Hampshire residents who lack health insurance, and help keep health care accessible to all.
Rural Data for Action, New England Rural Health Roundtable: http://www.newenglandruralhealth.org/policy/data.htm

Rural Data for Action A Comparative Analysis of Health Data for the New England Region A Report by the New England Rural Health RoundTable
Searching for Useful Health Care Prices: http://www.unh.edu/nhcpps/health/hcprices.pdf

This report anticipates changes that will occur if responsibility for paying for health care is further shifted onto individuals in the future. It identifies the kind of information consumers will need to make personal health care purchasing decisions. It presents the necessity of having actual prices (not just charges) available so consumers can make intelligent choicest. It presents sources of price and quality information that are currently being designed and built for future use in the New Hampshire health care marketplace, including the following websites:
Telling Our Story: New Hampshire's Community Benefits Report: http://www.dhhs.state.nh.us/DHHS/HPR/LIBRARY/Research/E5.htm

This report, Telling Our Story: New Hampshire's Community Benefits, is a 42 page report that analyzes the first year's experience with the community benefits process created by legislative action in 1999 and offers recommendations for next steps including addressing system and infrastructure issues and disseminating information to the public. Health care providers, District Health Councils, community members, advocacy groups, foundations, legislators and health care charitable trusts have all been interested in the outcome of this legislation.
The Oral Health of Children: A Portrait 2005: http://www.mchb.hrsa.gov

A chart book highlighting the major findings of the National Survey of Children's Health on children's oral health.
Transportation Reports: http://www.iod.unh.edu/projects/transportation.html

New Hampshire Resident Views on the Use, Availability, and Need for Public Transportation: Full Report(60 pages). Provides a detailed summary of responses gathered from the 2005 New Hampshire Transportation Survey. Includes details on the study methodology as well as a copy of the survey.
New Hampshire Speaks Out: We Want Public Transportation Summary Report. ( 20 pages). Provides key findings from the 2005 New Hampshire Transportation Survey in the context of current research and public policy initiatives.
Working Together to Assure a Healthy Public: http://www.dhhs.nh.gov/DHHS/DPHS/LIBRARY/Data-Statistical+Report/healthypublic.htm

The State of New Hampshire's Health - A Report to New Hampshire Residents

Other

Medicaid and Medicaid Reform Papers: http://www.unh.edu/nhcpps/medicaid.htm

Douglas E. Hall, NH Center for Public Policy Studies
NH Public Health Improvement Initiatives: http://www.dhhs.nh.gov/DHHS/DPHS/iphnh.htm

Improving the Public's Health in New Hampshire, A statewide effort organized by the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health Services, now has a website. The website will provide periodic updates on planning and performance improvement efforts and links to related initiatives past and present. Relevant reports, presentations, resources, and tools will be available through the web page. Visit us and bookmark it so you can keep abreast of developments.