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Research conducted by: RAND Health

Research Briefs (5)

How Does Health Reform Affect the Health Care Workforce? Lessons from Massachusetts — Dec 13, 2011

Since Massachusetts enacted health reform legislation in 2006, health care employment in the state has grown more rapidly than in the rest of the United States, primarily in administrative positions.

How Will Health Care Reform Affect Costs and Coverage? Examples from Five States — Apr 1, 2011

Projects how the coverage-related provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will affect health insurance coverage and state government spending on health care in five states.

Hours of Opportunity: How Cities Can Use Data to Improve Services in Out-of-School Time Programs — Oct 19, 2010

Five cities that received a grant from The Wallace Foundation, along with three other cities that were not part of the initiative, were successful in using data from management information systems to improve out-of-school-time programs.

Hours of Opportunity: How Cities Can Build Systems to Improve Out-of-School-Time Programs — Oct 18, 2010

Five cities that received a grant from The Wallace Foundation to increase collaboration, access, quality, information sharing, and sustainability in their out-of-school-time systems used different planning approaches to meet the initiative's goals.

Controlling Health Care Spending in Massachusetts — Sep 10, 2009

In 2006, Massachusetts passed landmark legislation ensuring near-universal health insurance coverage to its residents, but rising costs threaten the initiative; this policy brief assesses 21 options for controlling health care spending in the state.

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