RAND Research Topic: Mortality2024-03-27T17:55:06ZCopyright (c) 2024, The RAND CorporationRAND Corporationhttps://www.rand.org/topics/mortality.htmlProper Care for Life-Threatening Child Diarrhea Is Limited by Health Providers' Perceptions of Caregivers' WishesRAND Corporationhttps://www.rand.org/news/press/2024/02/08.html2024-02-08T17:00:00Z2024-02-08T17:00:00ZYoung children in India who suffer from life-threatening diarrhea frequently are given ineffective treatments because health providers misperceive the wishes of a child's caregiver.More Than 40 Percent of Americans Know Someone Who Died of Drug Overdose; 13 Percent Say Deaths Have Disrupted Their LivesRAND Corporationhttps://www.rand.org/news/press/2024/02/21.html2024-02-21T19:00:00Z2024-02-21T19:00:00ZMore than 40 percent of Americans know someone who has died of a drug overdose and about one-third of those individuals say their lives were disrupted by the death. While the overdose crisis has had wide-ranging negative impacts on people who use drugs, their employers, and public health systems, little research has explored the experiences of those left behind by fatal drug overdoses.