2012-05-24T14:16:03Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/infectious-diseases.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9667.html May 16, 2012 May 16, 2012

Vaccine-preventable diseases take a heavy toll on U.S. adults despite the widespread availability of vaccines. Office-based providers can do more to promote adult vaccinations but need clearer guidance and a better business case to offer them.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120082.html May 1, 2012 May 1, 2012

Affirming norms and attitudes are not a prerequisite for urban congregations to initiate HIV prevention and care activities, a finding relevant for HIV services providers and researchers seeking to engage congregations on this issue.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120071.html Apr 1, 2012 Apr 1, 2012

The authors evaluated the benefit of socioeconomic support (S-E support), comprising various financial and nonfinancial services that are available based on assessment of need, in reducing mortality and lost to follow-up (LTFU) at Reach Out Mbuya, a community-based, antiretroviral therapy program in Uganda.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120052.html Apr 1, 2012 Apr 1, 2012

This study seeks to evaluate longitudinal trends in people's risk perceptions and vaccination intentions during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2012/03/15.html Mar 15, 2012 Mar 15, 2012

Researchers from the RAND Corporation and other institutions have begun pilot-testing a web-based tool designed to help parents and adult caregivers determine whether to seek urgent medical attention for a sick child with flu-like symptoms.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120083.html Mar 1, 2012 Mar 1, 2012

A majority of HCP support influenza vaccination requirements. Moreover, providing HCP with information about the safety of influenza vaccination and communicating that immunization of HCP is a patient safety issue may be important for generating staff support for influenza vaccination requirements.

http://www.rand.org/randeurope/research/projects/malaria-prevention.html Feb 17, 2012 Feb 17, 2012

RAND Europe is working to capture a broader view of malaria's impacts on the economy and to estimate the potential effects that reduced malaria could have over time on consumption inequality, poverty, and dynamic growth.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120055.html Feb 1, 2012 Feb 1, 2012

Patients who miss clinic appointments make unscheduled visits which compromise the ability to plan for and deliver quality care.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120068.html Feb 1, 2012 Feb 1, 2012

The authors conducted a non-randomized evaluation examining relationships of HIV treatment advocacy participation to adherence, care engagement, social services utilization, unmet needs, patient self-advocacy, and adherence self-efficacy among 121 HIV-positive clients.

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/news/press/2012/01/11.html Jan 11, 2012 Jan 11, 2012

Promoting immunizations as a part of routine office-based medical practice is needed to improve adult vaccination rates, a highly effective way to curb the spread of diseases across communities, prevent needless illness and deaths, and lower health care costs.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1169.html Jan 11, 2012 Jan 11, 2012

Promoting immunizations as a part of routine office-based medical practice is needed to improve adult vaccination rates, a highly effective way to curb the spread of diseases across communities, prevent needless illness and deaths, and lower health care costs.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP360.html Jan 10, 2012 Jan 10, 2012

Climate change, water scarcity, and pandemics are examined for their national security implications and impacts on the global commons. This paper describes four clusters of policy approaches for these complex, interconnected issues and uses suggestive examples to build the case for policy evolution away from fixing problems and toward innovative alternatives, such as anti-fragile systems, that actually benefit from change and uncertainty.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120061.html Jan 1, 2012 Jan 1, 2012

HIV prevention programs for homeless YMSM may warrant a multipronged approach that helps these youth strengthen their ties to prosocial peers, develop more positive condom attitudes, and access needed mental health and housing services.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120060.html Jan 1, 2012 Jan 1, 2012

This study uses an event-based approach to examine individual, relationship, and contextual correlates of heterosexual condom use among homeless men.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201200115.html Jan 1, 2012 Jan 1, 2012

HIV continues to be a serious public health problem for men who have sex with women (MSW), especially homeless MSW.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2011/12/29/AJC.html Dec 29, 2011 Dec 29, 2011

To assure the health security of the United States, we must be capable of stopping anything a terrorist or Mother Nature might throw at us. Wholesale cuts to public health are taking us farther from that goal, write Art Kellermann and Melinda Moore.

http://www.rand.org/multimedia/video/2011/12/15/global-hiv-programs-crossroads.html Dec 15, 2011 Dec 15, 2011

In this December 2011 Congressional Briefing, Gery Ryan discusses policy options and recommendations on how to most effectively fund HIV treatment initiatives throughout the world.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/12/14/index1.html Dec 14, 2011 Dec 14, 2011

With the need for HIV services in developing countries rising and the availability of funding flat or declining, existing resources should be better leveraged to help provide life-saving services to more people in need.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9636.html Dec 12, 2011 Dec 12, 2011

This brief summarizes options for improving value for money in HIV funding by using a case study that focuses on the two largest funders, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Global Fund, and antiretroviral therapy.