Health and Society

Journal, blog, briefs and more that focus on the serious exploration of domestic and global health policy

Rigorous research and evidence-based insights to guide health policy decisions

Health policy research, analysis and news coverage; basic facts and numbers, and graphics, charts and slides

Reports that cover important health threats and what can be done to drive down disease.

Produces independent, non-partisan analyses of budgetary and economic issues to support the Congressional budget process; does not make policy recommendations.

For more than 20 years, the Dartmouth Atlas Project has documented glaring variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project uses Medicare data to provide information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as hospitals and their affiliated physicians.

From the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID)

Formerly the Institute of Medicine (IOM), NAM is an independent organization of eminent professionals from diverse fields including health and medicine; the natural, social, and behavioral sciences; and beyond. Through its domestic and global initiatives, the NAM works to address critical issues in health, medicine, and related policy and inspire positive action across sectors.

Focuses on the initiation, formulation, and implementation of health policy and analysis of the relations between government and health—past, present, and future.

Original research, policy analysis, and commentary that explores the social origins of health in our society and examines the implications of different health policies.

A policymaker and consumer guide to state insurance mandated coverage, Medicaid coverage and state-sponsored health programs.

An independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress, the GAO investigates how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars using audit policies consistent with the Fundamental Auditing Principles (Level 3) of the International Standards of Supreme Audit Institutions.