However, awardees may be asked to fine tune their data collection strategies, instruments used, etc. to further the cooperative goals. Decisions to undertake such changes will not be imposed unilaterally by the Project Officers, but will be part of a group process of the Coordinating Committee in which all Principal Investigators participate along with the Project Officers. The RFA calls for studies of features of public insurance programs and delivery systems. However, the focus of the study should be the public insurance program. However, the investigator might select an instrument that has been widely tested and used in the particular ethnic community that the investigator has chosen to study.
Health insurance features pertain to how the insurance program is structured.
Health care delivery system features pertain to how the delivery of care is organized. The RFA is not intended to fund program evaluations as such. The RFA solicits studies on low-income children. Children are almost always situated in families and can be studied in the context of their families. There are no requirements regarding data collection.