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     <title>RAND Research Topic: Spain</title>
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     <updated>2012-05-24T14:57:53Z</updated>
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   <title type="html">DISMEVAL Developing and validating disease management evaluation methods for European healthcare systems: Final report</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1226.html</id>
   <published>Apr 4, 2012</published>
   <updated>Apr 4, 2012</updated>
   <summary type="html">The report presents the overall findings of work carried out within the DISMEVAL project. It reviews approaches to chronic care in Europe and reports on methods and metrics for the evaluation of disease management interventions in six countries.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Impact of the Recession on Age Management Policies: Case Study: Abengoa, Spain</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120020.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 2012</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 2012</updated>
   <summary type="html">Abengoa has HR practices and policies that promote the employability and mobility of all workers regardless of age. The organisation also has specific age management policies including partial retirement policies.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Impact of the Recession on Age Management Policies: Case Study: Ford, Spain</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120023.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 2012</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 2012</updated>
   <summary type="html">In Spain, the Ford Collective Agreement has some specific policies aimed at older workers that affect seniority bonuses and retirement practices.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Low Fertility in Europe &#8212; Is There Still Reason to Worry?</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/06/17.html</id>
   <published>Jun 16, 2011</published>
   <updated>Jun 16, 2011</updated>
   <summary type="html">The post-war trend of falling birth rates has been reversed across Europe. However, despite an increasing emphasis on family and fertility policies in Europe, this recent development involves social, cultural, and economic factors more than individual policy interventions.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Low Fertility in Europe &amp;mdash; Is There Still Reason to Worry?</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1080.html</id>
   <published>Jun 16, 2011</published>
   <updated>Jun 16, 2011</updated>
   <summary type="html">The post-war trend of falling birth rates has been reversed across Europe. However, despite an increasing emphasis on family and fertility policies in Europe, this recent development involves social, cultural, and economic factors more than individual policy interventions.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Europe&apos;s demography: Are babies back? The recent recovery in EU period fertility due to older childbearing</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9566.html</id>
   <published>Jun 16, 2011</published>
   <updated>Jun 16, 2011</updated>
   <summary type="html">An update to the RAND Europe 2004 study into the causes and consequences of low fertility in Europe analysing the latest data, reviewing recent literature, and examining the situation in Germany, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the UK in depth.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Funding intensive care -- approaches in systems using diagnosis-related groups</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR792.html</id>
   <published>Mar 5, 2010</published>
   <updated>Mar 5, 2010</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;This report reviews approaches to funding intensive care in systems that use activity-based payment based on diagnosis-related groups to reimburse hospital care (Victoria/Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, US-Medicare).&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">International Comparison of Ten Medical Regulatory Systems: Egypt, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, South Africa and Spain</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR691.html</id>
   <published>May 18, 2009</published>
   <updated>May 18, 2009</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;This study was commissioned by the UK General Medical Council (GMC) to provide an evidence base on the systems of medical regulation in place in the countries of origin of doctors seeking to enter the UK and obtain registration to practise.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Health and Medical Research in Spain: Health Research Observatory</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB566.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 2007</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 2007</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;This report provides an overview of health and medical research in Spain. It describes the Structure, the Processes and Performance of Spain&apos;s Health Research System and an Outlook which considers current and emerging health research issues in Spain.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">The Real Analogy for Iraq</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/commentary/2007/08/24/UPI.html</id>
   <published>Aug 24, 2007</published>
   <updated>Aug 24, 2007</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;The conflict raging in Iraq has been compared to many earlier wars, but the best historical comparison has been largely overlooked, write John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt in a commentary appearing in United Press International.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/commentary/2004/05/13/KH.html</id>
   <published>May 13, 2004</published>
   <updated>May 13, 2004</updated>
   <summary type="html">Published commentary by RAND staff.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Quick Scan of Post 9/11 National Counter Terrorism Policymaking and Implementation in Selected European Countries</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1590.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 2002</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 2002</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;The Dutch Ministry of Justice asked RAND Europe to scan counter-terrorism policymaking and implementation among The Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The report features their initial reactions to 9/11 events, characteristics of their national institutional framework on counter-terrorism, and elements of their counter-terrorism policies and implementations.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">An Empirical Comparison of Substance and Alcohol Dependence Patterns in the Homeless in Madrid (Spain) and Los Angeles (CA, USA)</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20020030.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 2001</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 2001</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Alcohol and drug use continue to figure heavily in the experience of the contemporary homeless population.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Differential Patterns of Mental Disorders Among the Homeless in Madrid (Spain) and Los Angeles (USA)</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19981003.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1997</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1997</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;In this paper the authors compare rates of mental disorders (major depression, dysthymia, cognitive impairment, and schizophrenia) among homeless people in Madrid and Los Angeles (LA) and examine the ordering of the onset of both conditions (i.e., homelessness and mental disorders).&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Idoneidad Y Necesidad De Los Procedimientos Medicos: Criticas Y Fallos = Appropriateness and Necessity of Medical Procedures : Criticisms and Problems</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19960026.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1995</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1995</updated>
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