Research, Demonstration, and Evaluation Activities FY 2003 Plan and Budget

	Department of Health and Human Services

	Research, Demonstration, and Evaluation Activities FY 2003 Plan and Budget February 2002

RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATIONS

(by HHS Strategic Plan Objective)

ENHANCE THE APPROPRIATE USE OF EFFECTIVE HEALTH SERVICES (OBJECTIVE 4.1)

Table XXV (Dollars in thousands)
PROGRAM	FY 2001 Actual	FY 2002 Appropriation	FY 2003 President’s Budget Request
Infectious Disease - Sexually Transmitted Diseases (CDC)	$231	$84	$1,084
Health Services Research (NIH)	$5,160	$5,900	$6,400
Total	$5,391	$5,984	$7,484

FY 2003 Priorities

INFECTIOUS DISEASE - SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES (CDC)

Research: FY 2003 priority areas include:

researching the effects of establishing and strengthening health communications, and surveillance.
applied research related to the most efficient delivery of partner services in different settings including “safety net” settings, as defined in IOM's publication America's Health Care Safety Net: Intact but Endangered.

HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH (NIH)

Evaluation: During FY 2003, NIH will continue to provide evaluation support for the National Forum for Health Care Quality Measurement and Reporting (NQF), whose key objective is to evaluate and select core measures used in national reporting on all asepcts of health care quality. We will evaluate health-related quality of life, functional, outcome, and summary measurement, patient satisfaction indices, psychometrics, statistics, and research methodology. We will also identify and evaluate measures for tracking progress on national aims for quality improvement and the extent of public and private sector availablity of quality measurement data.

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