2013-05-08T07:11:05Z Copyright (c) 2013, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/l/leuschner_kristin_j.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR543.html 2008-05-16T11:58:00Z 2008-05-16T11:58:00Z

Discusses an effort to develop a clear and widely applicable definition of public health emergency preparedness (PHEP) that can provide a basis on which to develop PHEP standards and measures.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR577.html 2009-12-30T16:10:00Z 2009-12-30T16:10:00Z

Currently, there are no established tools for identifying, measuring, and improving public health crisis decisionmaking. As a first step toward meeting this need, this paper describes a tool to measure and improve key aspects of decisionmaking.

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/external_publications/EP20080717.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finds that a pilot quality improvement collaborative is a promising model for improving public health pandemic preparedness and may be useful for improving public health performance. Further efforts are needed to encourage robust implementation.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070403.html 2007-04-01T00:00:00Z 2007-04-01T00:00:00Z

Quality improvement (QI) methods have been used in many industries to improve performance and outcomes.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9512.html 2010-05-20T16:26:00Z 2010-05-20T16:26:00Z

Describes the role that faith-based organizations play in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras and how this role might be expanded.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9628.html 2011-12-05T10:00:00Z 2011-12-05T10:00:00Z

Describes a framework for thinking about commanders' critical information needs in countersurgency operations and offers practical ways for commanders to integrate influence activities into combined arms planning and assessment.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100180.html 2010-12-01T00:00:00Z 2010-12-01T00:00:00Z

National performance standards for public health preparedness can be developed based on existing evidence, but would be helped immensely by a stronger evidence base.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1146.html 2011-10-19T09:00:00Z 2011-10-19T09:00:00Z

Using geographic information system (GIS) technology to enhance provision of services by local health departments by enabling them to visually compare where health services are needed with where they are provided.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR712.html 2009-08-17T10:52:00Z 2009-08-17T10:52:00Z

Describes a tool for assessing key features of good crisis decision making that focuses on the processes of decision making -- situational awareness, action planning, and process control -- and can be used for exploratory analysis and process improvement.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR473.html 2007-09-16T05:38:00Z 2007-09-16T05:38:00Z

Collects and synthesizes the public health lessons learned from the response to Hurricane Katrina so that public health agencies can learn from the experience and improve their preparedness.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR660.html 2009-08-11T15:39:00Z 2009-08-11T15:39:00Z

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response asked RAND to facilitate the development of a public health systems research agenda for emergency preparedness with a focus on both short- and long-term priorities.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1231.html 2012-06-01T10:30:00Z 2012-06-01T10:30:00Z

Examines whether inclusionary zoning programs in the United States serve lower-income families and provide recipients with access to low-poverty neighborhoods and high-performing schools.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR475z1.html 2007-04-22T23:35:00Z 2007-04-22T23:35:00Z

A companion volume to TR-475-HLTH that offers the instructions to the hospitals that were used for the feasibility study documented in that report.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR475.html 2007-04-24T05:51:00Z 2007-04-24T05:51:00Z

Describes the first phase of an effort to develop an approach to redesigning the National Hospital Discharge Survey and to identify and recommend, through a feasibility study, specific data elements and field procedures for that survey.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR285.html 2005-08-31T05:59:00Z 2005-08-31T05:59:00Z

Describes the response of state and local health departments to outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), monkeypox, West Nile virus, and hepatitis A.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR598.html 2008-12-09T22:26:00Z 2008-12-09T22:26:00Z

A toolkit intended to help state and local health departments of all sizes incorporate quality improvement methods and promising strategies in six key domains into their current emergency preparedness activities.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG663.html 2007-10-19T03:06:00Z 2007-10-19T03:06:00Z

What are the differential effects of regulation and policy on small businesses? What is the impact of special regulatory treatment for small businesses? This book offers analysis of key public policy issues with implications for small businesses.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR764z1.html 2012-10-12T13:45:00Z 2012-10-12T13:45:00Z

RAND researchers developed an initial prototype tool to help determine capabilities and resources a locality will likely require during a disaster. The report also describes two social networking tools for local coordination of disaster preparedness.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1387.html 2001-01-01T12:05:00Z 2001-01-01T12:05:00Z

This report describes the challenges policymakers have faced as seen through the lens of the three major force structure reviews that have taken place over the past decade.