Report
This overview of the results of a survey of adults age 18 and over informs public health officials and other stakeholders about seasonal influenza vaccination of adults during the 2009-2010 vaccination season.
Report
This report describes the current policy context for domestic all-hazards risk-informed capabilities-based planning by local military and civilian authorities and provides a framework for a local planning support tool for their use.
Project
The Flu Vaccine Survey from RAND is a project that reviews nationally representative samples of adults to collect data on the receipt of seasonal influenza vaccine in the United States.
Journal Article
Compared with detection based on the presenting patient's chief complaint, data from an emergency room diagnosis can provide valuable information about influenza-like illness despite a potential delay in detection.
Journal Article
We analyzed data from a nationally representative survey of US adults 18 years and older fielded by Knowledge Networks (Menlo Park, California) between March 4 and April 7, 2009.
Journal Article
Reports estimates of H1N1 and seasonal influenza vaccination rates among health care personnel in the United States, August 2009 - January 2010.
Journal Article
Increased use of leukotriene inhibitors reduces ED visits for asthma but not enough to offset the drug costs, except for high-risk patients.
Journal Article
Information campaigns made more adults concerned about a pandemic, but didn't reassure them sufficiently about H1N1 vaccine safety and effectiveness that they got the vaccine.
Journal Article
Starting in 2010, healthy adults age 19-49 will be recommended for annual influenza vaccination. Boosting rates of vaccination in this population will require new and untraditional strategies aimed at encouraging first-time vaccination.
News Release
American adults are not being vaccinated against the seasonal flu any more often than they were last year, despite increased public discussion of the importance of influenza vaccines resulting from the worldwide outbreak of the H1N1 virus.
Report
This overview of the results of a survey of adults age 18 and over of seasonal influenza vaccine uptake will inform public health officials and other stakeholders on progress toward vaccinating adults prior to the end of the vaccination season.
Report
This detailed data from a survey of adults age 18 and over on their uptake of the seasonal influenza vaccine will inform public health officials and other stakeholders on progress toward vaccinating adults prior to the end of the vaccination season.
Journal Article
If fined tuned algorithms are used, emergency room-based syndromic surveillance focusing on unspecified infection cases in children is an effective way to determine the beginning of the influenza outbreak.
Journal Article
This project has implemented successful interventions to improve the quality of life and reduce disparities for children with asthma in Puerto Rico.
Past Event
Senior political scientist Christopher Nelson and operations researcher Edward Chan will discuss RAND's evaluation of federal efforts to improve public health preparedness in the nation's largest metropolitan areas in The H1N1 Pandemic: Lessons Learned from the Cities Readiness Initiative on September 14, 2009.
Multimedia
In this Congressional Briefing held on September 14, 2009, researchers Christopher Nelson and Edward Chan discuss RAND's recently published evaluation of the Cities Readiness Initiative, which helps the nation's largest metropolitan areas develop the ability to rapidly deliver life-saving medications and other medical supplies to their populations. The study has implications for pandemic influenza and other federal public health preparedness programs.
Research Brief
Presents an assessment of how effectively state and local health departments communicated information regarding the April 2009 H1N1 virus (swine flu) outbreak via the Web to their constituents.
News Release
State and local health departments get mixed marks for efforts to convey information about the H1N1 virus to the public using their Web sites immediately after U.S. officials declared a public health emergency in April.
Journal Article
On Sunday, 26 April 2009, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declared a public health emergency in response to the outbreak of H1N1 influenza (known as swine flu) in the United States. Through an analysis of state and local health department Web sites, we determined whether departments were able to provide online information to their constituents within twenty-four hours of the declaration. The overwhelming majority of state health departments, and more than half of health departments participating in the Cities Readiness Initiative--but only a quarter of smaller, local health departments--were successful in doing so.
Report
This overview of the results of a survey of adults age 18 and over on their receipt of the influenza vaccine will inform public health officials and other stakeholders on uptake of the vaccine by adults during the 2008-2009 vaccination season.
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