Global Health

Most nations face many of the same health challenges, including controlling costs, quality of care, and access to care and effectively addressing public health priorities. RAND Health has a distinguished tradition of analyzing health care and public health issues and providing technical assistance to governments and health organizations around the world. Current projects in global health are briefly described below.

How Can Faith-Based Organizations Help Address the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Central America?

The study identifies several areas in which faith-based organizations might enhance their involvement, including provision of care and support services for HIV patients, stigma reduction within the faith community, and advocacy.

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Improving Mass Delivery of Antiretroviral Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa

A study of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa identified six key challenges to scaling up ART programs efficiently (e.g., difficulty of new clinics to attract and maintain a steady rate of clients, bottlenecks at clinics due to large- scale patient flow) and potential strategies for addressing them (e.g., involvement of communities in ART outreach, efficient allocation of staff resources, and streamlining of clinic visit schedule protocols).

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Organizing for Quality: Inside the "Black Box" of Health Care Improvement in Europe and the United States.

This study on health care quality improvement efforts suggests that such efforts should pay attention to the organizational and human dimensions of change and the processes by which these dimensions are set in motion and unfold over time.

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