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National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches: Assessing Program Outcomes — 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.

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Reducing Early Smokers' Risk for Future Smoking and Other Problem Behavior: Insights from a Five-Year Longitudinal Study — Dec 31, 2007

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.

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Oregon’s Measure 11 Sentencing Reform: Implementation and System Impact — Dec 13, 2004

Measure 11, passed in Oregon in 1994, imposed long mandatory prison terms for designated offenses, prohibited “earned time,” 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…

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Oregon's Lessons for Improving Advance Care Planning — Dec 31, 2003

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

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Predictors of the Transition to Regular Smoking During Adolescence and Young Adulthood — Dec 31, 2002

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

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Defining and Implementing Medical Necessity in Washington State and Oregon — Dec 31, 1996

This paper reports on a qualitative study of how health care providers in the states of Washington and Oregon define and implement medical necessity.

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Medical Necessity and Defined Coverage Benefits in the Oregon Health Plan — Dec 31, 1996

The qualitative study described in this article addressed whether medical necessity remains a salient and useful concept in the Oregon Health Plan. Results indicate that defined coverage benefits, as described by the funded portion of the Prioritized List of Services, supplant medical necessity determinations for coverage, while managed care incentives limit the need for medical necessity determinations at the provider level.

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The Oregon Priority-Setting Exercise: Quality of Life and Public Policy — Dec 31, 1990

In 1989 the Oregon State legislature passed the Oregon Basic Health Services Act, which created a Health Services Commission charged with developing a priority list of health services. The goal of this legislation was to permit the expansion of Medicaid to 100 percent of all Oregonians living in poverty by covering only services deemed to be of sufficient importance or priority.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Setting Health Care Priorities in Oregon: Cost-Effectiveness Meets the Rule of Rescue — Dec 31, 1990

The Oregon Health Services Commission recently completed work on its principal charge: creation of a prioritized list of health care services, ranging from the most important to the least important.

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Diverting Prisoners to Intensive Probation: Results of an Experiment in Oregon — Dec 31, 1989

This Note presents the results of an evaluation of an ISP implemented by Marion County, Oregon, which documents a number of important lessons regarding implementing a prison-diversion ISP.

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