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     <title>RAND: Lois M. Davis</title>
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   <title type="html">Prison Health Care</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/commentary/2007/07/12/SDUT.html</id>
   <published>2007-07-12T15:04:00Z</published>
   <updated>2007-07-12T15:04:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Prison Health Care, in the San Diego Union-Tribune.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Prospective Payment for CHAMPUS Exempt Services: An Analysis of Children&apos;s Hospitals, Substance Abuse Services, and Psychiatric Services</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3700.html</id>
   <published>1992-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
   <updated>1992-01-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Presents the results of an analysis of prospective payment options for three services exempt from the CHAMPUS diagnosis-related group (DRG) payment system.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Securing Health: Lessons from Nation-Building Missions</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG321.html</id>
   <published>2006-03-15T11:55:00Z</published>
   <updated>2006-03-15T11:55:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Presents the results of a study that examined the success of international efforts to rebuild public health and health care delivery in seven cases: Germany and Japan immediately after World War II; Somalia, Haiti, and Kosovo in the 1990s; and Afghanistan</summary>
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   <title type="html">The Role of the United States Postal Service in Public Safety and Security: Implications of Relaxing the Mailbox Monopoly</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG800.html</id>
   <published>2008-10-07T04:10:00Z</published>
   <updated>2008-10-07T04:10:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">The United States Postal Service has a statutory monopoly to deliver mail to mailboxes, but there are arguments to relax that monopoly. This study assesses the public safety concerns of doing so and makes recommendations to address these concerns.</summary>
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   <link rel="related" type="text/xhtml" hreflang="en" title="Read More" href="http://www.rand.org/news/press/2008/10/23.html" />
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   <title type="html">State and Local Intelligence in the War on Terrorism</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG394.html</id>
   <published>2005-11-23T11:15:00Z</published>
   <updated>2005-11-23T11:15:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Examines how state and local law enforcement agencies conducted and supported counterterrorism intelligence activities after 9/11.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Combating Terrorism: How Prepared Are State and Local Response Organizations?</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG309.html</id>
   <published>2006-11-01T17:34:00Z</published>
   <updated>2006-11-01T17:34:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Results of a national survey of state and local response organizations&apos; activities following 9/11 to improve preparedness to deal with terrorist incidents and other disasters.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Tracking Inmates and Locating Staff with Active Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID): Early Lessons Learned in One U.S. Correctional Facility</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR786.html</id>
   <published>2010-06-28T16:30:00Z</published>
   <updated>2010-06-28T16:30:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">The lessons identified in this report pertain to the issues for a correctional facility to take into account when considering whether to deploy an active radio-frequency identification (RFID) system within the institution.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Exemplary Practices in Public Health Preparedness</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR239.html</id>
   <published>2005-03-01T13:29:00Z</published>
   <updated>2005-03-01T13:29:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Briefly describes the methods and criteria used to select exemplary practices in public health preparedness.</summary>
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   <title type="html">The National Computer Security Survey (NCSS): Final Methodology</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR544.html</id>
   <published>2008-09-16T04:03:00Z</published>
   <updated>2008-09-16T04:03:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">In 2006, RAND conducted the National Computer Security Survey (NCSS), the first nationally representative cybersecurity survey in the United States. This report documents the survey&apos;s methodology.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Public Health Preparedness: Integrating Public Health and Hospital Preparedness Programs</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR317.html</id>
   <published>2006-05-19T12:36:00Z</published>
   <updated>2006-05-19T12:36:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Examines different models for coordination that have been employed by local health departments and general acute-care hospitals to improve public health preparedness.</summary>
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   <link rel="related" type="text/xhtml" hreflang="en" title="Read More" href="http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR316.html" />
   <link rel="related" type="text/xhtml" hreflang="en" title="Read More" href="http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR318.html" />
   <link rel="related" type="text/xhtml" hreflang="en" title="Read More" href="http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR319.html" />
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   <title type="html">Learning from Experience: The Public Health Response to West Nile Virus, SARS, Monkeypox, and Hepatitis A Outbreaks in the United States</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR285.html</id>
   <published>2005-08-31T05:59:00Z</published>
   <updated>2005-08-31T05:59:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Describes the response of state and local health departments to outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), monkeypox, West Nile virus, and hepatitis A.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Examining Possible Causes of Gulf War Illness: RAND Policy Investigations and Reviews of the Scientific Literature</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB7544.html</id>
   <published>2005-11-25T10:11:00Z</published>
   <updated>2005-11-25T10:11:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">This research brief outlines assistance that RAND provided to the OSAGWI in investigating the health effects of eight areas of possible causes of illness: infectious diseases, pyridostigmine bromide, immunizations, wartime stress, chemical and biological warfare agents, oil well fires, depleted uranium, and pesticides.</summary>
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   <link rel="related" type="text/xhtml" hreflang="en" title="Read More" href="http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1018z1.html" />
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   <link rel="related" type="text/xhtml" hreflang="en" title="Read More" href="http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1018z4-1.html" />
   <link rel="related" type="text/xhtml" hreflang="en" title="Read More" href="http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1018z5.html" />
   <link rel="related" type="text/xhtml" hreflang="en" title="Read More" href="http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1018z6.html" />
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   <title type="html">Prisoner Reentry:  What Are the Public Health Challenges</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB6013.html</id>
   <published>2003-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
   <updated>2003-01-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html"></summary>
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   <title type="html">An Individual&amp;rsquo;s Strategy for Responding to Chemical, Radiological, Nuclear, and Biological Terrorist Attacks</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB6014.html</id>
   <published>2003-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
   <updated>2003-01-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">This research brief describes work documented in Individual Preparedness and Response to Chemical, Radiological, Nuclear, and Biological Terrorist Attacks (MR-1731-SF).</summary>
   <link rel="alternate" type="text/xhtml" hreflang="en" title="Read More" href="http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB6014.html" />
   
   <link rel="related" type="text/xhtml" hreflang="en" title="Read More" href="http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1731.html" />
   <link rel="related" type="text/xhtml" hreflang="en" title="Read More" href="http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1731z1.html" />
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   <title type="html">When It Comes to Terrorism, How Prepared Are Local and State Agencies?</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9209.html</id>
   <published>2006-11-07T16:47:00Z</published>
   <updated>2006-11-07T16:47:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">This research brief presents results of a survey of state and local response organizations to learn what they have done to improve their ability to respond to terrorist incidents since 9/11, how they have improved, and what still needs improvement.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Health System Reconstruction and Nation-Building</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9237.html</id>
   <published>2007-02-26T16:30:00Z</published>
   <updated>2007-02-26T16:30:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">This research brief examines past attempts to rebuild public health and health care delivery systems during nation-building efforts after U.S. military deployments intended to underpin the transition to peace, democracy, and economic stability.</summary>
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   <title type="html">How Would Relaxing the Mailbox Rule Affect Public Safety and Security?</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9396.html</id>
   <published>2008-11-05T16:29:00Z</published>
   <updated>2008-11-05T16:29:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">This research brief assesses the potential public safety and security implications of relaxing the U.S. Postal Service&apos;s Mailbox Rule, finding that doing so could have a moderate negative impact.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Cybersecurity Economic Issues: Corporate Approaches and Challenges to Decisionmaking</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9365.html</id>
   <published>2008-07-19T00:33:00Z</published>
   <updated>2008-07-19T00:33:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">This research brief addresses key cybersecurity concerns, such as protecting critical products and services and ensuring that software will work. It identifies how organizations perceive the importance of cybersecurity in making investment decisions.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Effects of Medicare&apos;s Prospective Payment System on service use by depressed elderly inpatients</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP478.html</id>
   <published>1996-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
   <updated>1996-01-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Effects of Medicare&apos;s Prospective Payment System on service use by depressed elderly inpatients</summary>
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   <title type="html">When Terrorism Hits Home: How Prepared Are State and Local Law Enforcement?</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG104.html</id>
   <published>2004-11-09T15:39:00Z</published>
   <updated>2004-11-09T15:39:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Presents the results of a 2002 survey of state and local law enforcement agencies assessing their preparedness for terrorism in the post-9/11 environment.</summary>
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