2012-05-24T14:57:16Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/northwestern-states.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR991-1.html Jan 4, 2012 Jan 4, 2012

Safe Start Promising Approaches (SSPA) is the second phase of a community-based initiative focused on developing and fielding interventions to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence. This report shares the results of SSPA, which was intended to implement and evaluate promising and evidence-based programs in 15 program sites across the country.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/04/05.html Apr 5, 2011 Apr 5, 2011

A series of new reports by the RAND Corporation outlines the impact that national health care reform will have on individual states, estimating the increased costs and coverage that are expected in five diverse states once reform is fully implemented in 2016.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/04/05/index4.html Apr 5, 2011 Apr 5, 2011

National health care reform will help 125,000 Montana residents obtain health insurance and increase health care spending by state government by about 3 percent when it is fully implemented in 2016.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9589.html Apr 1, 2011 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.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR973z2.html Apr 1, 2011 Apr 1, 2011

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contains substantial new requirements aimed at increasing rates of health insurance coverage. This report provides estimates, based on the RAND COMPARE microsimulation model, of how the law will affect health insurance coverage and state government spending on health care in Montana through 2020.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR947.html Mar 15, 2011 Mar 15, 2011

In 2008, the Minnesota Early Learning Foundation created the Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program, a pilot program to provide families with scholarships to cover the cost of high-quality early childhood education (ECE) programs. This report provides detailed cost and program data for a sample of 12 ECE programs participating in the scholarship program, including the per-child per-hour cost for participation of children in the programs.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9581.html Mar 15, 2011 Mar 15, 2011

Shares results of a RAND analysis of programs participating in Minnesota's Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program, which provides scholarships to cover the cost of high-quality early childhood education programs.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR811.html Apr 29, 2010 Apr 29, 2010

<p>An estimated 36 percent of American adults have health literacy levels rated at &ldquo;basic or below,&rdquo; indicating that they have difficulty obtaining, processing, and understanding basic health information and services. To help healthcare decisionmakers in Missouri identify neighborhood-level &ldquo;hotspots&rdquo; of suboptimal health or healthcare that may be due to low health literacy, RAND developed a prototype interactive web-based mapping tool. This report describes the tool and includes a User's Guide and Case Study.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100307.html Dec 31, 2009 Dec 31, 2009

This study investigated the applicability of Multinomial logit (MNL) models to predict the proportion of crashes by collision type and to estimate crash counts by collision type.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20091023.html Sep 30, 2009 Sep 30, 2009

This article reports on a formative evaluation of efforts to build community-based prevention capacity in two states (Tennessee and Missouri) using an Internet-based system known as interactive Getting To Outcomes&reg; (iGTO).

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR725.html Aug 24, 2009 Aug 24, 2009

<p>Presents the results of a two-year study that analyzes how patient safety practices are being adopted by U.S. health care providers, examines hospital experiences with a patient safety culture survey, and assesses patient safety outcomes trends. In case studies of four U.S. communities, researchers collected information on the dynamics of local patient safety activities and on adoption of safe practices by hospitals. </p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090804.html Dec 31, 2008 Dec 31, 2008

<p>To establish the prevalence of recanting of life-time inhalant use, the authors identify correlates of recanting to gain insight to its causes and develop a method for distinguishing recanters who truly are versus are not life-time users of inhalants.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080506.html Dec 31, 2007 Dec 31, 2007

<p>This study underscores the diversity of drug use within rural communities, suggesting that living in a very rural area is protective against some forms of drug use but that living in a rural area that includes a medium or large town is not.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20081008.html Dec 31, 2007 Dec 31, 2007

<p>Finds risk and protective factors during adolescence that predict future regular smoking and multiple problem behavior among youth who had tried smoking by grade 7. Protective factors include good grades and parental disapproval of smoking/drug use.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080611.html Dec 31, 2007 Dec 31, 2007

<p>Examines the extent to which time-varying factors, including substance use, influence the likelihood of heavy and persistent marijuana users dropping out of school and determines that parental and peer influences drive this result.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR142.html Dec 13, 2004 Dec 13, 2004

<p>Measure 11, passed in Oregon in 1994, imposed long mandatory prison terms for designated offenses, prohibited &ldquo;earned time,&rdquo; and provided for mandatory waiver of youthful offenders to adult court. This study analyzes the implementation of Measure 11 and its impact on prosecution, sentencing, and convictions. Findings show that Measure 11 has altered sentencing and case processing practices in Oregon, with offenders convicted of violent and sex-related offenses serving longer prison terms, but fewer being sentenced for these offenses.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040926.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003

<p>Discusses Oregon's Physicians orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20031009.html Dec 31, 2002 Dec 31, 2002

<p>The time is upon us to rethink how to evaluate resuscitation. People coming to the end of life with fragile health do not do well with resuscitation.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030404.html Dec 31, 2002 Dec 31, 2002

<p>To identify predictors of the transition from experimentation to regular smoking in middle adolescence, late adolescence, and young adulthood.</p>

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2002/09/30/ST.html Sep 30, 2002 Sep 30, 2002

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