Kaiser Family Foundation

Kaiser Family Foundation is a US-based company with headquarters in Menlo Park, California. The gemeinnütze company engages in research on health policy issues then the politicians, the media, health care companies and the public will be made available. It also operates public health education. The Foundation is equipped with more than half a billion dollars and has an annual budget of $ 40 million.

History

The company was founded in 1945 by Henry J. Kaiser and his wife Bess Kaiser. The conglomerate of Kaiser Family Foundation, Kaiser Industries and Kaiser Permanente fell apart in 1977. First, the Foundation was equipped with larger companies shares in Kaiser Permanente. By 1985, however, they separated from all the shares in Kaiser Permanente, so the Kaiser Family Foundation was able to operate as an independent company.

Business

Research and analysis

The company conducts research on complex issues of health care. It focuses on the situation of Medicare patients, HIV / AIDS patients, women with low incomes and from ethnic minorities. In 1991, the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured ( KCMU ) was launched to create a special research focus on the situation of Medicaid patients and the uninsured.

Similarly, opinion research is conducted on topics of healthcare.

Another research focus is the impact of the media on the lives of young people.

Dissemination of information

The company operates since 1993 training programs for journalists. In addition, on various websites and other publications disseminated information.

Further information on health policy, especially collected for health care reform and disseminated. The Health Care Marketplace Project disseminates information on issues of the healthcare market, in particular to insurance policies. The Medicare Policy Project provides information on topics relating to Medicare. The Race / Ethnicity and Health Care Program is designed to identify problems in the access to and quality of health care of minorities. The Women's Health Policy Program addresses the special problems of low-income women, especially from the point of insuring children in single-parent families and the higher costs of health insurance due to the statistical longer life expectancy of women. The HIV / AIDS Policy Program operates worldwide awareness about this disease. The Kaiser Family Foundation also supports the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.