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RAND Health
All Items (10)
Report
Shares the results of Safe Start Promising Approaches, a community-based initiative that implemented and evaluated promising and evidence-based programs to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence in 15 U.S. program sites.
Journal Article
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.
Report
The impacts of Measure 11 on crime and its prosecution in Oregon.
Journal Article
Discusses Oregon's Physicians orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form.
Journal Article
To identify predictors of the transition from experimentation to regular smoking in middle adolescence, late adolescence, and young adulthood.
Journal Article
The qualitative study described in this article addressed whether medical necessity remains a salient and useful concept in the Oregon Health Plan.
Journal Article
This paper reports on a qualitative study of how health care providers in the states of Washington and Oregon define and implement medical necessity.
Journal Article
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
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.
Report
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.