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Health Care Insurance — June 2008
This feature collects recent research by RAND Health on health care coverage in the U.S. Topics include immigrant health care issues, how having insurance affects health, consumer-directed health plans, considerations for employers providing health care, health and cost effects of drug-spending caps and co-payments, and assessments of past and current attempts to cover the uninsured.
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Scope of rapid HIV testing should widen
Rapid HIV testing is increasing in urban U.S. hospitals, but policies should encourage greater diffusion of rapid testing at the point of care and in ethnically and racially diverse communities.
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More HIV, STDs and sexual behavior research
Fruit and vegetable consumption linked with neighborhood socioeconomic status
Higher neighborhood socioeconomic status is associated with greater fruit and vegetable intake. This link is an important pathway through which social environments affect population health.Read abstractMore neighborhood influences on health research
Ian Coulter has been appointed to DHF, ACAM, and the Steering Committee for the UCLA Collaborative Centers for Integrative Medicine
Ian Coulter has just been appointed to three influential advisory groups: the Board of the Dental Health Foundation (DHF), the Board of the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM), and the Steering Committee for the UCLA Collaborative Centers for Integrative Medicine.Suzanne Wenzel has been elected a Fellow in the Association for Psychological Science
Suzanne Wenzel has been elected a Fellow in the Association for Psychological Science. The Association for Psychological Science (APS), previously the American Psychological Society, is a society for scientific psychology, whose mission is to "promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application, teaching, and the improvement of human welfare. Fellow status is awarded to APS Members who have made sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, service, and/or application.
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Latino social networks may affect substance use among Latino youth
Parental monitoring and some characteristics of social networks account for the relationship between Spanish language use and substance use among Latino adolescents.Read abstractMore diversity and health research
Assessing Health and Health Care in the District of Columbia
This second interim report includes findings and recommendations from a study of health and the health care service delivery system in the District of Columbia. Recommendations include how $135 million in funding from the tobacco settlement should be spent to strengthen the District's health care system. The first report is RAND Working Paper 534.
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Chloe Bird elected to the American Sociological Association's Committee on Committees
Chloe Bird has been elected to a two-year term on the American Sociological Association’s Committee on Committees as a sociologist working outside of a traditional academic setting. The Committee on Committees is one of the constitutional standing committees of the ASA and key to its governance.Read more at American Sociological Association
RAND Summer Institute to be hosted at RAND July 7-10.
This is the 15th annual RAND Summer Institute. It consists of two conferences addressing critical issues facing our aging population: a Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists and a workshop on the Demography, Economics and Epidemiology of Aging.AHRQ provides consumer resource for osteoporosis
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has used work from RAND's Southern California Evidence-based Practice Center to help consumers learn about treatment for osteoporosis.Read more from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
New method is efficient for estimating racial/ethnic data to address disparities in care
The Bayesian Surname and Geocoding (BSG) method of estimating race and ethnicity offers a powerful tool that can help health care organizations address disparities until self-reported race/ethnicity data are available.Read abstractMore diversity and health research
Comparison of health systems in China and India
Health care has improved in China and India, but little has been done to protect patients against financial risk. This paper compares the two health systems along key dimensions and recommends improvements in the areas of financing, access, overuse of care, monitoring emerging diseases, and matching hospital capabilities with local needs.Full documentMore global health research
June RAND Health Congressional Newsletter
The June RAND Health Congressional newsletter topics include teen virginity pledges, a fact sheet discussing the potential cause of overeating behaviors, and research on the differences between men and women in maintaining healthy lifestyles.
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