Office of Human Services Policy
The Office of Human Services Policy (HSP)/HHS Chief Economist focuses on welfare, poverty, service delivery
issues, data for research, policies affecting children, youth, and families, and economic matters affecting the
Department. HSP is in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the Department of Health and
Human Services. Below are major areas HSP covers click there for publications, ongoing work, and related topics.
Subject Areas:
- Child Welfare
- Consumer Choice
- Data and Information Policy
- Data Sources and Statistics
- Disability
- Early Childhood and School Readiness
- Employment
- Expenditures
- Family and Marriage Issues
- Food and Nutrition
- Health Care/Long-Term Care Financing
- Health Services, Formal
- Home and Community-Based Services
- Homelessness
- Immigration/Foreign-born
- Insurance
- International
- Medicaid
- Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment
- Modeling and Simulation
- Poverty, Income, and Assets
- Prevention, Health Promotion, and Wellness
- Public Health
- Public Safety and Terrorism
- Quality of Services and Information
- Science and Technology
- Service Delivery
- State Initiatives and Programs
- Substance Abuse (Alcohol and Drug Abuse)
- Violence
- Welfare, Work, and Self-Sufficiency
- Youth/Teens/Adolescents