Quality improvement collaboratives have become a common strategy for improving health care. This paper uses social network analysis to study the relationships among organizations participating in a large scale public–private collaboration among major health plans to reduce racial and...

These summaries provide an overview of the mission, organization, and budget of every federal agency, including distinct units within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, along with a description and analysis of how each agency’s work relates to diabetes prevention, detection, and...

The federal government spent $79.7 billion more in 2005 to treat those with diabetes and care for its complications than it spent for those without diabetes—12 percent of total federal health care spending nationwide. A significant share of this spending is potentially avoidable, to the...

These summaries provide an overview of the mission, organization, and budget of every federal agency, including distinct units within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, along with a description and analysis of how each agency’s work relates to diabetes prevention,...