Community-Based Health Care

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Cultivating the Magic Sauce for Surviving Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest vary significantly by location, highlighting the need to identify and disseminate best practices from high-performing communities. What are the key factors that improve survival?
Aug 27, 2024

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Mental Health First Aid: Training People to Help Others
An innovative program trains and empowers people to not look away from those experiencing mental illness, but to listen to them, reassure them, and encourage them to get help. Most trainees of the program in New York City were still using what they had learned five years later.
May 3, 2023
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Remembering Slain LA Bishop David O'Connell and His Tireless Community Work
Bishop Dave left a mark on so many lives, and, even after becoming bishop, remained close to the community he so loved. The world has lost a fearless and compassionate leader.
Mar 3, 2023
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RAND Experts on Veteran Mental Health Respond to the White House Mental Health Research Priorities
The White House identified eight research priorities to better manage America's current mental health crisis. RAND researchers highlight why each area is critical for veteran mental health and how RAND is contributing to address them.
Feb 20, 2023
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Investing in Social Change: Lessons Learned from Foundation-Funded Criminal Justice Research
Investing in policy-focused research can be among the ways foundations catalyze change. Impactful work may involve strong collaborations across funders, researchers, and community partners. And it may require flexibility in design and execution as well as a commitment to getting the findings into the hands of decisionmakers who can use the findings to create change.
Jul 20, 2021
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Medical Mistrust Could Reduce Vaccine Uptake: Q&A with Laura Bogart
Laura Bogart, a senior behavioral scientist, studies how discrimination feeds medical mistrust and conspiracy beliefs. Her research on how mistrust became a barrier to treatment for Black Americans during the HIV epidemic sheds light on why some might question the safety of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Dec 23, 2020
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What Telemedicine Needs to Succeed Beyond COVID-19
Virtual doctor visits have become part of the new normal. Since the first COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, Medicare and other payers have relaxed their rules to make it easier for patients to connect to care. But without permanent policy changes, physicians may not continue telemedicine services.
Sep 2, 2020
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Supportive Housing Can Help Keep People with Mental Illness Out of Jail
Hundreds of thousands of people with serious mental illnesses cycle in and out of American jails every year. In Los Angeles, some of them are getting diverted into a supportive housing program where they can get the treatment they need. And the results are promising.
Feb 27, 2020
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A Novel Approach to Helping People Returning from Prison
Many services try to address the needs of individuals returning from prison, but they're often designed without much input from the very people who need the services. A group of county agencies, service providers, and former prisoners collaborated to identify ways to improve reentry services in Los Angeles.
Oct 30, 2019
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Faith-Based Organizations Promote Well-Being in Underserved Communities
Kathryn Derose, a senior policy researcher at RAND and an Episcopal deacon, works with Latino and African-American churches to address health issues in their communities. Her research has shown the power of the pulpit to fight health disparities, counter stigma, and encourage healthy living.
Jan 4, 2019
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Is Los Angeles County Successfully Creating a Youth Movement Around Mental Health Issues?
A new community engagement campaign called WhyWeRise seeks to increase awareness of mental health access as a civil rights issue and increase civic engagement. The campaign reached its target audience—people aged 14 to 24—and showed signs of changing attitudes toward mental illness.
Dec 6, 2018
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Doing More with Less: Lessons from Cuba's Health Care System
High U.S. health care costs do not yield corresponding health outcomes for its citizens. But Cuba, for less than a tenth of U.S. costs, has attained comparable outcomes on many indicators, such as life expectancy and infant mortality. Cuba prioritizes primary care and prevention and addresses social determinants of health.
Oct 6, 2017
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Anti-Drug Education: Time for a New Bumper Sticker
Effective drug prevention in America could start by helping school districts adopt programs that work. These evidence-based programs can teach children to make wise and responsible decisions about drugs, and they won't break the bank.
Jul 20, 2017
announcement

Community Partners in Care Receives Accolade
Community Partners in Care, a partnership that uses a unique approach to improve depression care in under-resourced communities, has received the 2015 Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Award.
Jun 10, 2015
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Faith-Based Organizations as Force Multipliers
Faith-based organizations are an important community-based resource for veterans who are adjusting to civilian life. What current and potential roles can they play in reintegration?
Jun 2, 2015
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U.S. Needs to Improve Community-Based Drug, Alcohol Prevention
As familiar as Americans are with the problems of youth drug and alcohol abuse, we are not identifying all the potential solutions. While observers criticize overemphasis in U.S. policy on enforcement and scant resources devoted to treatment, the focus on these approaches often ignores a key piece of the puzzle: prevention.
Jan 31, 2014
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Support for Implementing Home Visiting Under the Affordable Care Act
One groundbreaking provision of the Affordable Care Act is its funding for home visiting programs that match the parents of young children with trained specialists who provide information, social support, parental skill instruction, and more.
Jan 8, 2014
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Using the Power of Communities to Beat Depression
Under-resourced communities of color have limited access to programs that could improve recognition and treatment of depression. RAND and UCLA investigators applied an engagement model to determine how to better serve these communities.
Aug 27, 2013
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Getting To Outcomes: Improvement of Prevention Capacity Unveiled at a Summit of Maine Officials and Stakeholders
Community-based practitioners can improve their programs using Getting To Outcomes®, a toolkit, training, and onsite-support package which enhances their ability to prevent drug and alcohol use among youth.
Apr 29, 2013
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'Implementation Science' May Help Providers Adopt New Treatments Despite Real-World Constraints
A new field called implementation science addresses the issue of how to best support providers to take up new, research-proven treatments and implement them well. A RAND study will test how well Boys & Girls Clubs carry out a program proven to prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, with and without an intervention called Getting To Outcomes.
Feb 18, 2013
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Shifting the Burden of Mental Health Care: Helping Families
In our national conversation on mental health, we should remember the role of families when thinking about treatment and ensure that our policies open up opportunities to support parents, siblings and relatives, and enhance their capacity for care, writes Ramya Chari.
Dec 21, 2012

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Ukraine's Kursk offensive was a tactical masterstroke that changed the geometry of the battlefield by extending Russian lines and obliging them to rethink their force allocation assumptions. This changes the military calculus.

Ann Marie Dailey

Policy Researcher

Source: The National Interest

While it may not be obvious to patients, AI is already integrated into daily health care systems, from predicting which patients are likely to develop infections to forecasting missed appointments. Other uses are not fully developed: while ChatGPT has demonstrated success on a number of medical board exams, hospitals are not outsourcing actual medical care to computers yet.

Shira H. Fischer

Physician Policy Researcher

Source: rand.org

The Veterans Left Behind: Eligibility for VA Benefits and Other Than Honorable Discharges

U.S. Military Basing and Access in the Indo-Pacific

Russia Is Riding an Anti-Colonial Wave Across Africa

Is AI Threatening Health Care Jobs? Or Just Changing Them?

Climate Change and Critical Infrastructure: Assessing the Risks and Identifying Mitigation Strategies

The Policy Currents Podcast

Getting to Know Military Caregivers and Their Needs

Managing Escalation in Crisis and War

Assessing and Articulating the Wider Benefits of Research

Improving Access to Early Childhood Education

Community-Based Health Care

Cultivating the Magic Sauce for Surviving Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Mental Health First Aid: Training People to Help Others

Remembering Slain LA Bishop David O'Connell and His Tireless Community Work

RAND Experts on Veteran Mental Health Respond to the White House Mental Health Research Priorities

Investing in Social Change: Lessons Learned from Foundation-Funded Criminal Justice Research

Medical Mistrust Could Reduce Vaccine Uptake: Q&A with Laura Bogart

What Telemedicine Needs to Succeed Beyond COVID-19

Supportive Housing Can Help Keep People with Mental Illness Out of Jail

A Novel Approach to Helping People Returning from Prison

Faith-Based Organizations Promote Well-Being in Underserved Communities

Is Los Angeles County Successfully Creating a Youth Movement Around Mental Health Issues?

Doing More with Less: Lessons from Cuba's Health Care System

Anti-Drug Education: Time for a New Bumper Sticker

Community Partners in Care Receives Accolade

Faith-Based Organizations as Force Multipliers

U.S. Needs to Improve Community-Based Drug, Alcohol Prevention

Support for Implementing Home Visiting Under the Affordable Care Act

Using the Power of Communities to Beat Depression

Getting To Outcomes: Improvement of Prevention Capacity Unveiled at a Summit of Maine Officials and Stakeholders

'Implementation Science' May Help Providers Adopt New Treatments Despite Real-World Constraints

Shifting the Burden of Mental Health Care: Helping Families

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