2012-05-24T14:13:06Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/community-based-health-care.html http://www.rand.org/publications/randreview/issues/2011/winter/prisoner.html Jan 13, 2012 Jan 13, 2012

The confluence of three events has broadened the public health implications of prisoner reentry into California communities: the recession, state realignment, and federal health care reform.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1146.html Oct 19, 2011 Oct 19, 2011

Geographic information system (GIS) mapping software is a promising tool for enhancing priority-setting and resource allocation in local health departments (LHDs) by displaying complex geospatial information in an integrated, visual way, enabling comparison of where health services are needed with where they are provided. The study describes options for accessing GIS data and suggests ways for LHDs to integrate GIS into their planning activities.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120037.html Jun 1, 2011 Jun 1, 2011

This article presents the content and lessons learned from a national conference designed to stimulate application of community-based participatory mental health services research.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110090.html May 3, 2011 May 3, 2011

This commentary argues that involving communities in the formation of accountable care organizations would be a dramatic step toward more patient-centered care.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110055.html Apr 5, 2011 Apr 5, 2011

A paradigm shift involving acknowledgement of the value of clinicians in the context of community research, establishment of a stable infrastructure to support a cohort of clinicians across time and research studies, and realignment of incentives to encourage participation in clinical research is required.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110053.html Apr 3, 2011 Apr 3, 2011

<p>New National Institutes of Health policies call for expansion of practice-based research to improve the clinical research enterprise and facilitate dissemination of evidence-based medicine. This paper describes organizational strategies that influence clinicians' decisions to participate in clinical research.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110054.html Apr 3, 2011 Apr 3, 2011

<p>This paper presents a model for the reorganization of clinical research to foster long-term participation by community clinicians.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110078.html Jan 31, 2011 Jan 31, 2011

Since most poor women deliver at home in developing countries, efforts to reduce maternal deaths should prioritize community-based interventions aimed at making home births safer.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100175.html Jan 1, 2011 Jan 1, 2011

The authors estimated at pounds 1.8 billion the cost to the taxpayer of care for the 127,000 patients dying from cancer in 2006. The equivalent cost for the 30,000 people dying from organ failure was pounds 553 million. Resources of pounds 16 to pounds 171 million could be released for cancer.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110099.html Dec 31, 2010 Dec 31, 2010

Youth with marijuana problems who received a research-based treatment (motivational enhancement therapy plus cognitive behavioral therapy [MET/CBT5]) had better outcomes than similar youth treated in community-based programs.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100104.html Jul 31, 2010 Jul 31, 2010

Community-based participatory research promotes community engagement in improving depression care.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201000198.html Jun 30, 2010 Jun 30, 2010

Using surveillance data, researchers identified neighborhoods in a Georgia county with a persistently high incidence of cardiac arrest and low rates of bystander CPR. Such neighborhoods are promising targets for community-based interventions.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2010/03/16/index1.html Mar 16, 2010 Mar 16, 2010

New results from a major initiative on the quality of cancer care in the U.S. have found that patients with a common type of colon cancer&mdash;especially older patients&mdash;often are not treated as aggressively with chemotherapy as research shows is necessary to improve survival.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9489.html Nov 2, 2009 Nov 2, 2009

<p>Summarizes the evidence for the ban on new fast-food chain restaurants in South Los Angeles (LA), including the density of such restaurants in the area and the eating habits of South LA residents, and concludes that the data do not support the ban.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090024.html Dec 31, 2008 Dec 31, 2008

<p>This article describes the planning phase of the Community Partners in Care (CPIC) initiative, a community-based effort to improve quality and outcomes of depression treatment for adults.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090021.html Dec 31, 2008 Dec 31, 2008

<p>The authors describe a community based participatory research (CBPR) effort to develop, pilot test, and conduct a randomized controlled trial of a school-based adolescent obesity prevention program.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9375.html Aug 11, 2008 Aug 11, 2008

<p>This fact sheet summarizes a study examining the variation of the intake of fruits and vegetables for blacks, whites, and Mexican Americans, in addition to the relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic status and this intake.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9339.html Apr 10, 2008 Apr 10, 2008

<p>This fact sheet describes a model of constrained choice that explains how policy decisions at the family, work, community, and government levels can have unintended consequences that ultimately produce differences in men's and women's health.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20081003.html Dec 31, 2007 Dec 31, 2007

<p>Estimates place effects on racial health disparities. Controlling for a single point-in-time measure of residential context results in a 15-76% reduction of black/white disparities in self-rated health not accounted for by individual-level controls.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20081111.html Dec 31, 2007 Dec 31, 2007

<p>The Dimensions of Change Instrument (DCI) assesses aspects of the therapeutic community treatment process. The DCI predicts retention at the next stage, but the direction of the scale prediction varies as a function of client tenure in treatment.</p>