Consumer Health: Health Advocacy

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A non-partisan, non-profit group for changing American health care with goals of extending health coverage to all Americans and containing health care costs.

Consumers & Patients, Navigating Health Care

Politics, Charitable Giving, Community Service, Volunteering, Independent Living

A coalition of national consumer, advocacy, provider and professional organizations headquartered in Washington.

A Kaiser Family Foundation resource for health data in all 50 states. State-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation.

The mission of the US Department of Health & Human Services Office of Minority Health (OMH) is to improve and protect the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will eliminate health disparities.

This group, coordinated by the American Medical Association, does legislative advocacy on issues surrounding the patient-doctor relationship and patients’ access to health care.

The Urban Institute investigates social and economic problems confronting the nation and analyzes efforts to solve these problems.

List of recalls, safety alerts, and field safety notices of medical devices and their connections with their manufacturers.

The National Institutes of Health is part of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.