Research Briefs

RAND research briefs present policy-oriented summaries of individual published, peer-reviewed documents or of a body of published work.

2011

How Does Health Reform Affect the Health Care Workforce? Lessons from Massachusetts

How Federal Education Policy Under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Can Support States in School Improvement

How Should Drugs be Identified in Electronic Prescribing Systems?

How Will Health Care Reform Affect Costs and Coverage? Examples from Five States

Human Capital Strategy for the Army's Human Resources Command

Improving Value for Money in Funding HIV Services in Developing Countries

Is There a Cheaper and Faster Way to Distribute Medical Supplies?

Malpractice Risk, by Physician Specialty

Monitoring and Evaluation in Stabilisation Interventions: Rationale, challenges and principles of effective monitoring and evaluation

Moving Toward Vehicle Miles of Travel Fees to Replace Fuel Taxes: Assessing the Path Forward

Perceptions of Charter and Traditional Schools in New Orleans

Pittsburgh Community Perspectives on the Design of the New Environmental Center at Frick Park

Preventing Obesity and Its Consequences: Highlights of RAND Health Research

Project Retrosight: Understanding the returns from cardiovascular and stroke research

The Public Health System a Decade After 9/11: Key Successes and Continuing Challenges

Reducing Costs, Increasing Capability: A New Equipping Strategy for Combat Support Hospitals

Reducing Future Flood Damage in New Orleans Through Home Elevation and Land Use Changes

Reducing the Impact of Children's Exposure to Violence: Results of the National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches

Results from the Congressionally Mandated Study of U.S. Combat and Tactical Wheeled Vehicle

Seasonal Flu Vaccination: Why Don't More Americans Get It?

Should the Joint Medical Education and Training Campus Have an Office of Institutional Research?

Standing Up a More Capable Joint Task Force Headquarters

Summer Counts: Making Summer Programs Part of the Learning Equation

Targeted Use of Theater Inventory to Effectively Sustain Overseas Forces While Minimizing Supply Chain Costs

Using Student Performance to Evaluate Teachers

Views from the Homefront: How Military Youth and Spouses Are Coping with Deployment

The War Within: Suicide Prevention in the U.S. Military

What Are the Public Health Implications of Prisoner Reentry in California?

What Is the Impact of Using Evidence-Based Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression in Veterans?

What Is the Impact of Workplace Policies to Promote Influenza Vaccination Among Health Care Personnel?

What New York City's Experiment with Schoolwide Performance Bonuses Tells Us About Pay for Performance

What Should Be Stocked in War Reserve? A New Method for Allocating Resources

Why Are Many Emergency Departments in the United States Closing?

Will Adoption of Electronic Health Records Improve Quality in U.S. Hospitals?

A Worksite Parenting Program That Works

2010

The Air Force Should Continue to Use the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test for Officer Selection

Alternatives for the Maritime Prepositioning Force (Future)

Analysis of the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962)

Analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590)

Are Adolescents Talking with Their Parents About Sex Before Becoming Sexually Active?

Are Performance-Based Accountability Systems Effective? Evidence from Five Sectors

The Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Programs: The Impact of One State's Investment in the Health of its Residents

Better understanding efforts to reduce the supply of illicit drugs

Building a More Resilient Haitian State: Key Recommendations and Priorities

Call for Reform in the Residential Insurance Market after Hurricane Katrina

Cost and Health Consequences of Air Pollution in California

Coverage, Spending, and Consumer Financial Risk: How Do the Recent House and Senate Health Care Bills Compare?

Diagnosing and Treating Food Allergies: The State of the Research

Diversity and the Success of Entering Classes at the U.S. Service Academies

Do Bonuses Affect Enlistment and Reenlistment?

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