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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
Patricia O'Campo, PhD, Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltmore, MD 21205, (410)502-5448, pocampo@jhsph.edu, Lucia Rojas-Smith, DrPH, Health Economics Research Division, RTI International, 1615 M Street N.W., Washington D.C., DC 20036-3208, and Holly A. Grason, MA, Population and Family Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 615 North Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD 21205.
By October 2002, TANF will have to be reauthorized and several components of this PROWRA legislation will be reviewed, debated and revised. Crucial to informing the reauthorization, as well as the progress on the existing and future components of the TANF program, are data collection and monitoring efforts of the multiple aspects of the PROWRA legislation. To date, comprehensive efforts to collect data for and to monitor the broad impact of welfare reform on health and well-being has been limited. Rather, monitoring the multiple aspects of TANF current and former recipients lives affected by the 1996 legislation is being conducted by several public and private organizations. The presentation is part of a larger panel concerned with welfare reform and reauthorization (Welfare Reform: Developing Poicy Supportive of Women's Health.") The extent to which States are taking on this monitoirng role will be a focus of this presentation. Results from state interviews with TANF progrms and Office of Wmen's Health contracts in 1999-2000 about the data collection and use of data to monitor the effects of welfare reform are presented. States are limited in their abilities to monitor the impact of welfare reform yet consider monitoring activities for a wide variety of health related issues is a high priority. Strategies that may increase state capacity to collect and monitor TANF related datea will be discussed.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this session the participant will be able to
Keywords: Welfare Reform, Women
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.