2012-05-10T18:02:53Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/p/parker_andrew_m.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR665.html 2009-09-03T18:15:00Z 2009-09-03T18:15:00Z

Presents assessments that test five critical elements of state and local health departments' capability to deliver countermeasures to the population under rapid timeframes.

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/research_briefs/RB9434.html 2009-04-01T16:20:00Z 2009-04-01T16:20:00Z

This research highlight summarizes the findings of RAND's initial evaluation of the Cities Readiness Initiative and the program's impact on communities' readiness to conduct mass dispensing of medications and other medical supplies.

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/WR688.html 2009-06-26T16:32:00Z 2009-06-26T16:32:00Z

Applies behavioral decision theory to develop hypotheses about how users choose passwords, and uses those hypotheses to suggest novel ways to help users choose passwords that are both memorable and secure.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR740.html 2010-02-17T16:23:00Z 2010-02-17T16:23:00Z

Examines the implications of two common measures - labeled overconfidence and unjustified confidence - showing how and where they can lead to different conclusions when used for prediction.

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/WR692.html 2009-10-11T08:52:00Z 2009-10-11T08:52:00Z

Introduces and explains two new modules for the RSS-POD Supply Chain Management Game, an Excel-based computer simulation game designed to provide practice in managing inventories of medical countermeasures during a largescale public health emergency.

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/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/WR544.html 2008-06-09T15:13:00Z 2008-06-09T15:13:00Z

Reviews the available (as of June 2007) information resources for military personnel and their families on post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and traumatic brain injury and describes the creation of new educational booklets on these topics.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR639.html 2009-08-04T11:13:00Z 2009-08-04T11:13:00Z

Contains a template that public health agencies can use to conduct a workshop to improve key aspects of Strategic National Stockpile planning: pediatric dispensing, altered standards of care, and allocation of scarce resources.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR708.html 2009-11-02T17:01:00Z 2009-11-02T17:01:00Z

Provides a review of theoretical and operational approaches to financial literacy, as well as a conceptual model and composite definition of financial literacy.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR640.html 2009-01-30T10:47:00Z 2009-01-30T10:47:00Z

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked RAND to provide an initial evaluation of the impact of the Cities Readiness Initiative on awardees' readiness and capability to conduct mass countermeasure dispensing.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100302.html 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although adolescents' expectations are accurate or moderately optimistic for many significant life events, they greatly overestimate their chances of dying soon. The authors examine whether adolescents' mortality judgments are correlated with their perceptions of direct threats to their survival. Contrary to the folk wisdom that adolescents have a unique sense of invulnerability, the individuals studied here reported an exaggerated sense of mortality, which was highest among those reporting greater threats in their lives.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100174.html 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This article describes an evaluation of the Cities Readiness Initiative, a federal program to improve communities' ability to dispense medications rapidly during emergencies.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100127.html 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although not all decision-making tasks showed age-related declines in performance, older adults perceived themselves as worse decision makers.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090905.html 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The authors analyze data on the intention of U.S. adults to receive novel H1N1 vaccine if available this fall, and studies the relationship between the intention to be vaccinated against novel H1N1 and the uptake of seasonal influenza vaccine last year.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20071201.html 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Existing research in bundling has primarily focused on consumer evaluations of a bundle as a whole.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070801.html 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The authors examine whether adolescents' probability judgments for significant life events are predictive and accurate.