C. A. MacDonald & Associates: Evaluation, Research and Program Review

Evaluation

Baseline Evaluation of State General Assistance Programs 1996:

Introduction and Summary. Cori E. Uccello, Heather R. McCallum, L. Jerome Gallagher. The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.

Approaches to Evaluating Welfare Reform: Lessons from Five

State Demonstrations. Authors: Anne Gordon, Jonathan Jacobson, and Thomas Fraker of Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., October, 1996.

Welfare Reform Evaluations, Wisconsin. The University of

Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institute is currently working with local governments and schools in Milwaukee County to assess the impact of state and federal welfare reform proposals on families receiving AFDC. Policy papers discuss critical issues for integrating Milwaukee County welfare populations into the labor force and profile the demographic characteristics of working families with incomes below poverty and the welfare population expected to work in this urban county. The following entry is a sample of the work being done by this institute.

Evaluation of the Impact of Wisconsin's Learnfare Experiment

on the School Attendance of Teenagers Receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institute. February 1992.

The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Ontario (ICES)

is a non-profit research organization dedicated to conducting research that contributes to the effectiveness, quality and efficiency of health care in the province of Ontario.

The Evaluation Program in the U.S. Department of Health

and Human Services -

Performance Improvement 1996. Chapter II: Highlights of Selected

Evaluations Completed During Fiscal 1995. In this chapter, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) highlights evaluations of general interest to the public health and human services community and illustrates the diversity of HHS evaluations completed in fiscal 1995. Included are summaries of 11 evaluation projects.

Health Care Evaluation Section of the Australia Department of

Human Services, Public Health Division

Research

Statistics Canada

Health Reports. Canadian Dimensions: The People.

Health Reports from Statistics Canada.

Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research -

Newsletters

Research in Progress at the Office of Health Policy.

September, 1996. This compendium summarizes the content and status of health policy research in progress in FY 1996 sponsored by the Office of Health Policy (HP) of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Research within HP informs the HHS policy development process by producing information on the organization, financing, and delivery of health services within the United States.

The Centre for Health Economics (CHE) specialises

in health economics research, its principal areas of research activity include: economic evaluation of health technologies, outcome measurement, primary care, community care, the determinants of health.

Undertaking Systematic Reviews of Research on

Effectiveness: Centre for Reviews and Dissenmination (CRD) Guidelines for Those Carrying Out or Commissioning Reviews. CRD Report Number 4 January 1996

National Information Center on Health Services

Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR). The NICHSR was created at the National Library of Medicine to improve the collection, storage, analysis, retrieval and dissemination of health services research, clinical practice guidelines and health care technology assessment. Includes access to HSTAT (Health Services/Technology Assessment Texts), a fulltext database for clinical practice guidelines including those supported by the AHCPR and DIRLINE, an NLM database of organisations including those involved in technology assessment and practice guidelines development.

Welfare Research: The California Work-Pays Demonstration

Project. The California Work Pays Demonstration Project (CWPDP) is a collaborative effort of the California Department of Social Services Research Branch (CDSS-RB), the University of California Data Archive and Technical Assistance (UC DATA) and the Survey Research Center at the University of California.