2012-05-15T22:46:42Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/b/bird_chloe_e.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9055-1.html 2008-11-19T19:21:00Z 2008-11-19T19:21:00Z

This research highlight updates the cumulative effects of a study of a collaborative care-based quality-improvement treatment program for depression after nine years.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR686.html 2009-08-03T10:43:00Z 2009-08-03T10:43:00Z

Presents the results of interviews with internal medicine program directors about how they are preparing physicians-in-training to practice within the current health care delivery system.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1109.html 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

While health care spending on minorities, poor people, and men is oftenlower than spending on whites, higher-income people, and women, the spendinggap narrows or disappears in the last year of life for Medicare patients.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1276.html 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Assesses whether women, heterosexual men, and gay/bisexual men with HIV who experienced or perpetrated abuse within a close relationship were likely to engage in unprotected intercourse with that same partner.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201000150.html 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Individuals with more education benefit from living in highly educated neighborhoods to a greater degree than individuals with lower levels of education.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20081003.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Estimates place effects on racial health disparities. Controlling for a single point-in-time measure of residential context results in a 15-76% reduction of black/white disparities in self-rated health not accounted for by individual-level controls.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080510.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gender disparities in expenditures are generally small at the end of life for lung cancer decedents. The bigger observed differences are by age. Higher expenditures for women on social-supportive services may reflect fewer informal supports.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080804.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

This paper reports on health disparities research as a multilevel research domain from the perspective of a large national initiative.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080914.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A number of biomarkers have been shown to be affected by psychological stress, including allostatic load. Biomarkers can help characterize and quantify the biological impact of psychological stress on the etiology of health disparities.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080109.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Short-term quality improvement (QI) interventions for depression can improve long-term mental health but mechanisms are unknown.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20011110.html 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The motivation for working part-time differed significantly according to gender and age.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19910601.html 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When gender differences in social roles are controlled, being male is associated with poorer health than being female. If gender roles were more equal, women would experience better health than men, more consistent with their greater longevity.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19990609.html 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Social and biological assumptions about health shape research and affect the development and application of knowledge.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20000015.html 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This book represents the status of medical sociology at the millennium.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20000013.html 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This book represents the status of medical sociology at the millennium.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20000008.html 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Authors consider evidence from a variety of other disciplines about one possible pathway-physiological links between psychosocial processes and health

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070619.html 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The authors sought to examine whether diffusion of new HIV technologies differed by gender in the United States.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050308.html 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tracking quality-of-care measures is essential for improving care, particularly for vulnerable populations.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070427.html 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Studies report gender differences in medical service utilization among persons with HIV, although most compare women to heterogeneous groups of men.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070523.html 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

PURPOSE: To assess gender differences in the quality of care for cardiovascular disease and diabetes for enrollees in managed care plans.