Requests for Assistance on Health Initiatives

As part of AHRQ's mission to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans, research and data development efforts are supported to help inform health care policy and practice. The Agency administers surveys and develops large primary data sets to support health care policy and behavioral research and analyses. These activities fall along a continuum ranging from data development, evaluation, and dissemination, to basic research, and on to applied research to inform health care decisions and support policy analysis.

This new section of the AHRQ Web site has been developed to post summaries of staff responses to recent requests for assistance on health initiatives, and to help ensure transparency and efficiency in responding to such informational needs and requests for substantive assistance by public policymakers.

Requests for Assistance on Health Initiatives

AHRQ Analyses of Medical Expenditure Survey Panel (MEPS) Data
Inform Estimates of the Concentration and Persistence in the Level of Health Expenditures over Time
Inform Estimates of the Number of Long-Term Uninsured
Inform HHS Report on Declining Employer-Sponsored Insurance Coverage
Inform HHS Report on Health Insurance Reform and Costs for Small Businesses
Used in New Report on How Health Insurance Reform Will Help America's Older Women

Distribution of Population by Percentile Ranking of Medical Expenditures and Insurance Coverage: United States and New York State, 2006

Health Care in Urban and Rural Areas, Combined Years 2004-06: Update of Chartbook 13

Informing Health Initiatives: Summary of Requests and Assistance Provided
   February-May 2009
   June 2009
   July-October 2009

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Data in New Report on Hidden Costs of Health Care

MEPS Data in Report on Middle Class and Health Reform

National Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage, Mental Health Utilization, and Spending for Low-Income Individuals

Near-Elderly Adults, Ages 55-64: Health Insurance Coverage, Cost and Access

Current as of December 2009

Internet Citation:

Requests for Assistance on Health Initiatives. Agency for Healthcare Research Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/data/mreqahi.htm