About the Healthcare Assessment Research Branch

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Research Branch (HARB) is one of three branches in NCI's <a href="/about/">Healthcare Delivery Research Program</a>.</p> <p>Our mission is to promote population-based research on demographic, social, economic, and health system factors as they relate to providing screening, treatment, and survivorship services for cancer.</p> <p>The Branch carries out its mission by <strong>assessing:</strong></p> <ul> <li>cancer-related health services utilization and outcomes among individuals in the general population and among selected population subgroups;</li> <li>the dissemination and effective delivery of cancer-related health services by community-based health care providers and health care delivery organizations; and</li> <li>the role of economic factors related to the equitable, efficient, and effective provision of cancer-related health services.</li> </ul> <p>Furthermore, the Branch works towards its mission by <strong>developing, improving, and disseminating:</strong></p> <ul> <li>data 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