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How Private Health Care Providers Could Better Serve Veterans
Almost a third of U.S. veterans live 40 miles or more from the nearest VA medical center, so the VA is trying to make it easier for them to use private providers closer to home. But it will take significant efforts to better prepare civilian doctors to deliver high-quality care to veterans.

Health Care Program Evaluation

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Evaluating Los Angeles County's Mental Health Community Engagement Campaign

The WeRise/WhyWeRise campaign targeted young people to encourage them to engage with mental health issues and create a movement to lower barriers to mental health access. People exposed to the campaign reported more-supportive attitudes toward people with mental illness and greater mobilization toward action around mental health issues.
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What Does America's Political Polarization Mean for Competition with China?

Political polarization in the United States potentially carries significant implications for America's strategic competition with China. Leaders in Washington will need to work to mitigate the effects of polarization and manage competition with China in a stable, effective manner.
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Strategies to Counter Russian Social Media Influence

The Russian government's disinformation campaigns have found a comfortable home on social media. No single approach to countering their influence is likely to produce a conclusive victory over the threat. Therefore, it would be prudent to adopt approaches that target multiple links in the disinformation chain.
Gender Equity in the Workplace

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Women's Representation in the U.S. Department of Defense Workforce

When compared with the civilian labor force, there is less women's representation among those who work for the U.S. Department of Defense. What accounts for this gap? And what could be done to address it?

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Alternative Paths to Korean Unification
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Growing Evidence Supports Best Practices in Palliative Care
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How AV Safety Can Be Defined, Tested, and Measured
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Finding the Right Assessment Tool: Another Resource for Educators and Researchers

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The WhyWeRise campaign was intended to elevate mental health as a civil rights issue and leverage youth enthusiasm for activism as a way to create social change. Our findings show that they reached an impressive proportion of the target audience and seem to have influenced people's attitudes toward mental health.
Rebecca L. Collins

Senior Behavioral Scientist
Source: RAND News Release
Every dollar spent on a consultant because the payment model is so complex is kind of a dead weight loss. You could be achieving the same goals without a consultant if you had a model that's simple enough to understand.
Mark W. Friedberg

Senior Physician Policy Researcher
Source: Modern Healthcare
European countries could not manage without the U.S. in a big crisis. By and large, all of them have militaries designed to work as a coalition run by the U.S.
Michael Shurkin

Senior Political Scientist
Source: TIME
A holistic defense model is better able to convey a client's life circumstances to prosecutors and judges, who are then more willing to accept alternatives to detention such as drug treatment. We hope the research encourages other jurisdictions to experiment with this model.
Paul Heaton

Adjunct Economist
Source: WNYC-AM
There are about 20 symptoms associated with the disorder. One of them is anger and irritability, but that is not the predominant picture of post-traumatic stress disorder. Most people who have PTSD are not violent.
Lisa H. Jaycox

Senior Behavioral Scientist
Source: Los Angeles Times

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How Private Health Care Providers Could Better Serve Veterans

Evaluating Los Angeles County's Mental Health Community Engagement Campaign

What Does America's Political Polarization Mean for Competition with China?

Strategies to Counter Russian Social Media Influence

Women's Representation in the U.S. Department of Defense Workforce

Alternative Paths to Korean Unification

Growing Evidence Supports Best Practices in Palliative Care

How AV Safety Can Be Defined, Tested, and Measured

Finding the Right Assessment Tool: Another Resource for Educators and Researchers

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