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Health Policy is a growing field throughout the United States. As more and more people realize that individual health choices
are profoundly shaped by policies, many organizations and institutions are turning their attention to creating healthy public
policies. These policies will bring benefits to communities for decades to come - through the improved health of community
members, lower health care costs, and a better quality of life for community residents.
Links below for some of the leading organizations in Healthy Policy in America today.
NOTE: The Forsyth County Healthy Community Coalition provides these links for information purposes only and does NOT necessarily support or endorse all policies listed in each of the links provided.
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation - The Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S., with a growing role in global health. The Foundation serves as a non-partisan source of facts, information, and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the public. Their product is information, always provided free of charge – from the most sophisticated policy research, to basic facts and numbers, to information young people can use to improve their health or elderly people can use to understand Medicare benefits.
National Health Policy Forum sponsored by George Washington University - The National Health Policy Forum seeks to inform the public policy process by helping participants—federal health policymakers in the legislative and executive branches and in congressional support agencies—engage in rigorous, constructive, and respectful dialogue.
North Carolina Institute of Medicine - The North Carolina Institute of Medicine is an independent, non-profit organization that serves as a non-political source of health policy analysis and advice in North Carolina.
Health Policy Guide by the Center for Health Improvement - The Health Policy Guide provides evidence-based, peer-reviewed policy guidance and resources to support advocacy and decision-making at the state and local levels. Over 150 policy topics are included. The Guide is offered by the Center for Health Improvement, a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit health policy center based in Sacramento, California.
The Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University - The Institute for Policy Research is an interdisciplinary public policy research institute founded at Northwestern University. Their mission is to stimulate and support excellent social science research on significant public policy issues and to disseminate the findings widely -- to students, scholars, policymakers, and the public at large.