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Link Library
Health Foundation of South Florida seeks to advance knowledge and learning about critical health issues and to inform health care policy and practice in our state. Here we offer a collection of timely information resources for grantees, policymakers, employers, journalists and individuals. Over time we will be building an extensive repository of data, information on health-related groups and initiatives as well as key health-related reports.
Local, State, National Data and Health Sources
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Part of the federal Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC collaborates to create the expertise, information, and tools that people and communities need to protect their health, through health promotion, prevention of disease, injury and disability, and preparedness for new health threats.
Florida CHARTS: Short for the Community Health Assessment Resource Tool Set, this website, an initiative of the State Department of Health, provides county, community and state data on a number of health indicators.
Healthy People: A national health promotion and disease prevention initiative bringing together many individuals and agencies to improve the health of all Americans and eliminate disparities in health.
Miami Matters: An initiative of the Health Council of South Florida, Miami Matters is a dynamic, interactive web-based information system that provides easy to understand health, environmental and other quality of life indicators for Miami-Dade County.
Advocacy and Public Policy
Florida CHAIN: A statewide consumer health advocacy organization dedicated to improving the health of all Floridians by promoting access to affordable, quality health care
Health Affairs: Health policy journal publishing original, peer-reviewed research and commentary.
National Conference of State Legislatures: Provides information about state governing bodies, current legislation and reports, surveys, and policies
National Health Policy Forum: A participant driven information-exchange program that aims at fostering more informed government decision making.
Urban Institute: Analyzes policies, evaluates programs, and informs community development to improve social, civic, and economic well-being.
Philanthropy
Chronicle of Philanthropy: The newspaper of the nonprofit world
Commonwealth Fund: A private foundation that supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy.
Donor's Forum of South Florida: Nonprofit regional membership association comprised of private and public funders that support nonprofits
Florida Philanthropic Network: A coalition of Florida's leading grantmakers who seek to organize and promote philanthropy in Florida, help develop the research agenda in philanthropy and encourage dialogue and collaboration among nonprofits, businesses and government
Foundation Center: Comprehensive directory offers links to private foundations, corporate-giving programs and other sources of nonprofit funding
Grantmakers in Health: A nonprofit educational organization that helps funders and corporate giving programs improve the health of all people
Philanthropy Journal: Online publication of state, national and international news on fundraising, giving, managing, grant seeking, volunteering, and technology in the nonprofit and philanthropic community
The Nonprofit Sector
Board Source: The premier resource for building strong and effective nonprofit boards
C-One, The Center: Dedicated to strengthening the nonprofit sector in Miami-Dade County by building the management capacity of nonprofit organizations
Guidestar: The national database of nonprofit organizations
Nonprofit Resource Center: Directory of sites of interest to nonprofits. Covers legal and board of directors issues; support organizations; finance, accounting, and management; fundraising and marketing
Other Funding Opportunities
The Children’s Trust: A dedicated source of revenue established by voter referendum to improve the lives of the children and families in Miami-Dade County
United Way of Miami Dade: A powerful partnership strategically investing in quality programs, building partnerships, advocating for better policies, engaging people in their community and leveraging resources in the Miami Dade community.
Healthy Eating Active Communities/Health Promotion
4woman.gov: The national Women's health information Center, a service of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health. The site is a gateway to women's health information resources and covers more than 800 topics.
BAM: Body and Mind (BAM) site is an interactive tool based on two years of market research and development for adolescents, providing up-to-date information and encouragement to increase their level of physical activity and establish fitness habits.
Nutrition.gov: Easy, online access to government information on food and human nutrition for consumers
Verb: Interactive web site provides children ages 9-13 with ideas on how to become physically active. The site is part of an overall youth media campaign overseen by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Prevention/Preventive Health
American Cancer Society: a nationwide, community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem.
Cancer Control PLANET: This Cancer Control P.L.A.N.E.T. portal provides access to data and resources that can help planners, program staff, and researchers to design, implement and evaluate evidence-based cancer control programs.
National Cancer Institute: The NCI, established under the National Cancer Institute Act of 1937, is the Federal Government's principal agency for cancer research and training.
The Prevention Institute: As a national non-profit organization, the Institute is committed to preventing illness and injury, to fostering health and social equity, and to building momentum for community prevention as an integral component of a quality health system.
Trust for America’s Health: A non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to saving lives by protecting the health of every community and working to make disease prevention a national priority.
Oral Health
American Association of Public Health Dentistry: A membership organization for those concerned with improving the public’s oral health, providing a forum for ideas exchange and support of effective programs for oral health promotion and prevention
American Academy of Pediatrics Oral Health: American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 60,000 pediatricians committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental and social health and well-being for children. Their Oral Health Initiative provides a multitude of resources including state listings and resources, information on oral health issues and a video trainings.
American Dental Association: Founded in 1859, the American Dental Association is the oldest and largest national dental society in the world. Since then, the ADA has grown to become the leading source of oral health related information for dentists and their patients
Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors: ASTDD provides leadership to promote a governmental oral health presence in each state and territory, to formulate and promote sound oral health policy, to increase awareness of oral health issues, and to assist in the development of initiatives for prevention and control of oral diseases
Community Voices Miami: Works to effectively inform policy decisions in Miami-Dade County so that all medically uninsured and underinsured individuals will be able to receive quality medical care. Oral Health is one of their focus areas.
First Smiles Project: The projects goal is to educate 30,000 dental professionals, 10,000 medical professionals and deliver intensive training to 14,000 dental professionals and over 3,500 medical professionals statewide.
National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center: Responds to the needs of states and communities in addressing current and emerging public oral health issues. The resource center collaborates with federal, state, and local agencies; national and state organizations and associations; and foundations to gather, develop, and share quality and valued information and materials.
National Oral Health Policy Center: A HRSA-supported resource to further the understanding of oral health care financing, workforce, and disparities, in order to inform policy development and improve the oral health status of vulnerable populations.
National Oral Health Surveillance System: Designed to monitor the burden of oral disease, use of the oral health care delivery system, and the status of community water fluoridation on both a national and state level.
Safety Net Dental Manual: Designed to help safety net dental clinic staff with all aspects of clinic development and ongoing operations.
Primary Care/Chronic Care Management
American Heart Association: A national voluntary health agency whose mission is to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
American Lung Association of Southeast Florida: The mission of the American Lung Association of South Florida is to prevent lung disease and promote lung health. This is accomplished through research, education, direct services and advocacy.
American Diabetes Association: The nation's leading nonprofit health organization providing diabetes research, information and advocacy.
Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC): BPHC funds Health Centers in underserved communities, providing access to high quality, family oriented, and comprehensive primary and preventive health care for people who are low-income, uninsured or face other obstacles to getting health care.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention- Diabetes Public Health Resources: Reduce the preventable burden of diabetes through public health leadership, partnership, research, programs, and policies that translate science into practice.
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): Helps provide health resources for medically underserved populations and also works to build the health care workforce and maintains the National Health Service Corps.
Improving Chronic Illness Care: ICIC is a closed project that worked for more than a decade with national partners toward the goal of bettering the health of chronically ill patients by helping health systems, especially those that serve low-income populations, improve their care through implementation of the Chronic Care Model (CCM). CCM identifies the essential elements of a health care system that encourage high-quality chronic disease care: the community, the health system, self-management support, delivery system design, decision support and clinical information systems.
Center for Health Evidence: provides a range of information and communication services to a variety of health organizations and professional associations.
Office of Minority Health: Works to improve and protect the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will eliminate health disparities.
Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative: A coalition of major employers, consumer groups, patient quality organizations, health plans, labor unions, hospitals, physicians and many others who have joined together to develop and advance the patient centered medical home
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Diabetes Initiative Archive: From 2002-2009 this program focused on improving self management supports for adults with diabetes in real world clinic and community settings. The site is now a repository for program models, materials, tools, resources, and lessons learned over the course of the Initiative.
Medical Homes Resources:
(PCMH): A collaboration between American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians, American Osteopathic Association setting forth principles to describe the characteristics of the PCMH.
Supported by the National Council on Quality Assurance, PCC-PCMH works to identify physicians who delivery superior care using standards based on medical evidence, measuring multiple aspects of care to deliver a score.
The Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative: a coalition of major employers, consumer groups, patient quality organizations, health plans, labor unions, hospitals, clinicians and many others who have joined together to develop and advance the patient centered medical home (PCMH).
The Safety Net Medical Home Initiative: This project is a collaboration between Commonwealth Fund, Qualis Health and MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation to help primary care safety net clinics become high performing patient-centered medical homes, designed to promote improved patient-provider communications and improving clinical quality and reduced healthy system costs.
Quality and Safety Resources
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: As part of its effort to help consumers become better informed and participate as partners in their own health care, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has developed materials that will help patients get safer, higher quality care. Part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, AHRQ is leading the Government's efforts to improve the quality, safety, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans.
The American Board of Medical Specialties: The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), a not-for-profit organization, represents 24 medical specialty boards which establish and maintain high standards for physician certification and the delivery of safe, quality medical care by certified physician specialists.
American Health Quality Association: AHQA represents Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) and professionals working to improve the quality of health care in communities throughout America. QIOs share information about best practices with physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, and others. In collaboration with health care providers, QIOs identify opportunities and provide assistance for improvement.
Center for Health Evidence: a not-for-profit organization based at the University of Alberta dedicated to helping health organizations and associations find and apply best evidence in daily practice. CHE works on a project basis using a variety of communication and information technologies to create decision support tools and services.
Healthcare Communities: A web-based knowledge management system that provides multiple means for the healthcare quality improvement community to share knowledge and contribute to each others’ QI work.
HealthGrades: HealthGrades' award-winning physician, hospital, and nursing home reports are used by more consumers than any other.
National Commission on Quality Assurance: A private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality by developing quality standards and performance measures for a broad range of health care entities
The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care: This initiative uses Medicare data to provide comprehensive information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as individual hospitals and their affiliated physicians. Reports found on their website can be used by policymakers as well as practitioners to understanding factors affecting the efficiency and effectiveness of our health care system.
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