2012-05-15T21:51:16Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/c/chandra_anita.html http://www.rand.org/commentary/2010/02/24/RAND.html 2010-02-24T20:18:00Z 2010-02-24T20:18:00Z

Previous efforts by the international community to stabilize Haiti have met with little or only short-term success. This time, following the earthquake, the U.S. response could actually leverage the response and recovery opportunities into a broader international plan, write Agnes Gereben Schaefer and Anita Chandra.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2009/10/17/MA.html 2009-10-17T13:30:00Z 2009-10-17T13:30:00Z

Four years after Hurricane Katrina, many people in the Gulf Coast region are still "just surviving," write Anita Chandra and Joie Acosta.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR553.html 2008-09-29T15:19:00Z 2008-09-29T15:19:00Z

This report presents recommended standards for points of dispensing (or PODs), locations where the public would receive life-saving antibiotics or other medical countermeasures during a large-scale public health emergency.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR772.html 2010-01-04T10:38:00Z 2010-01-04T10:38:00Z

Assists school-based mental health professionals, school personnel, and child welfare social workers in adapting two school-based interventions for use with youth in foster care who have symptoms of distress following exposure to trauma.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9401.html 2008-11-10T16:25:00Z 2008-11-10T16:25:00Z

This fact sheet summarizes the results of a RAND initiative to develop performance standards for distributing antibiotics and other lifesaving medical countermeasures on a large scale within the critical first 48 hours of a public health emergency.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9398.html 2008-11-03T08:01:00Z 2008-11-03T08:01:00Z

Offers some practical implications based on the first study to demonstrate a link between exposure to sexual content on TV and subsequently becoming pregnant or being responsible for a pregnancy before the age of 20.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR583.html 2008-07-08T04:08:00Z 2008-07-08T04:08:00Z

To assist planning and response efforts for vulnerable populations, the authors created a compendium of communication, outreach, and education materials related to emergency preparedness, response, and recovery for those populations.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR598.html 2009-01-09T16:41:00Z 2009-01-09T16:41:00Z

Analyzes risk communications and public health messaging strategies and approaches with at-risk populations to enhance emergency preparedness, response, and recovery.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR469.html 2007-04-11T20:31:00Z 2007-04-11T20:31:00Z

This report presents the findings of a project designed to identify system-level characteristics associated with consistently timely responses in telephone-based disease surveillance systems in local health departments.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR581.html 2008-07-07T01:41:00Z 2008-07-07T01:41:00Z

Reports on a literature review concerning promising risk communication approaches and messaging strategies to address the communication limitations or barriers facing vulnerable populations before, during, and after a public health emergency.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR566.html 2008-05-02T13:04:00Z 2008-05-02T13:04:00Z

Reports the results of a survey of families attending a summer camp program that children with a deployed parent attend, to learn more about the functioning and well-being of children of deployed military personnel.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR516.html 2007-12-09T12:14:00Z 2007-12-09T12:14:00Z

Lays out strategies and approaches for establishing or expanding a volunteer program to build workforce surge capacity in the event of a public health emergency.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR737.html 2010-01-11T17:02:00Z 2010-01-11T17:02:00Z

This review lays a foundation for upcoming analyses that will provide a working definition of community resilience, identify activities for building resilience, and offer associated metrics.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR534.html 2008-01-14T12:36:00Z 2008-01-14T12:36:00Z

Study of health and the health care delivery system, including an assessment of emergency medical services, in the District of Columbia.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1222.html 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Explore perceptions of stress, sources of social support, and use of coping strategies among urban African American ninth graders.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR913.html 2011-01-19T08:00:00Z 2011-01-19T08:00:00Z

Examines the behavioral and emotional well-being of a sample of military families over a year as they cope with the stress of war and deployment, using surveys and in-depth interviews with youth and their nondeployed caregivers.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100215.html 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Studies the effect of parental deployment on the well-being of children, and whether and how parental deployments affect the behavioral, social, and emotional outcomes of youth in the school setting.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9574.html 2011-02-22T09:00:00Z 2011-02-22T09:00:00Z

Examines ways in which communities can improve their ability to withstand and recover from adversity.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR815.html 2011-01-19T08:45:00Z 2011-01-19T08:45:00Z

Examine the benefits of outdoor education activities in Operation Purple® camps, which are free camps for youth from military families.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9488.html 2009-11-02T17:01:00Z 2009-11-02T17:01:00Z

Summarizes research showing that children from military families experience above-average levels of emotional and behavioral difficulties and that longer parental deployments are associated with greater difficulties.