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The Foreclosure Crisis, Community Change, and the Cognitive Health of Older Adults

Community-level foreclosures are associated with a faster decline in individual cognition at older ages, with implications for the cognitive health of older adults.

Dec 1, 2020

Esther M. Friedman, Jason N. Houle, Kathleen A. Cagney, Mary Ellen Slaughter, Regina A. Shih
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Developments in Child and Family Policy in the EU in 2019: European Platform for Investing in Children

This third annual trend report outlines and summarises 2019 policy developments in the area of child and family policy in the 27 EU Member States and the UK.

Dec 1, 2020

Michaela Bruckmayer, Natalie Picken, Barbara Janta
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Anti-bullying Practices from the Repository of the European Platform for Investing in Children

This report showcases a selection of practices that focus on anti-bullying interventions and have been collected and listed on the online practice repository of EPIC.

Dec 1, 2020

Michaela Bruckmayer, Silvia Galimberti
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Estimating the Global Economic Benefits of Physically Active Populations Over 30 Years (2020–2050)

We assess the potential benefits of increased physical activity for the global economy for 23 countries and the rest of the world from 2020 to 2050. The main factors taken into account in the economic assessment are excess mortality and lower productivity.

Dec 1, 2020

Marco Hafner, Erez Yerushalmi, Martin Stepanek, William D. Phillips, Jack Pollard, Advait Deshpande, Michael Whitmore, Francois Millard, Shaun Subel, Christian Van Stolk
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Vertical Integration of GP Practices with Acute Hospitals in England and Wales: Rapid Evaluation

The objectives of this report are to understand the rationale for and early impact of vertical integration in the National Health Service in England and Wales, and to develop a theory of change for vertical integration.

Dec 1, 2020

Manbinder Sidhu, Jack Pollard, Jon Sussex
Journal Article

Impacts of Health Care Industry Consolidation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: A Qualitative Study

This exploratory qualitative study describes industry and community stakeholder perceptions of the impacts of cumulative hospital, practice, and insurance mergers, acquisitions, and affiliations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Dec 1, 2020

Claire E. O'Hanlon
Report

Defense Security Cooperation University Expert Course of Instruction: Content, Design, Implementation

To develop an expert-level course of instruction for military and civilian security cooperation professionals, the authors of this report identify the needed knowledge and skills and the pedagogical methods that best cultivate them.

Dec 1, 2020

Jefferson P. Marquis, Jennifer D. P. Moroney, Pauline Moore, Rebecca Herman, Jonathan Welch, Reid Dickerson
Report

Trends in U.S. Air Force Aircraft Mishap Rates (1950–2018)

The authors describe trends in U.S. Air Force aircraft mishap rates and assess the impact of such factors as aircraft age on those rates over time.

Nov 30, 2020

Thomas Light, Thomas Hamilton, Spencer Pfeifer
Report

Human Aspects of Air Force Operations: The Roles of Social, Cultural, and Political Knowledge and Skills in the Full Spectrum of Multidomain Operations

The authors examine whether there is a need for a joint warfighting domain focused on human aspects of military operations and consider how sociocultural knowledge and skills could be better integrated into conventional Air Force operations.

Nov 30, 2020

Kirsten M. Keller, David E. Thaler, Kathleen Reedy, Caroline Baxter, Ryan Haberman, William Mackenzie, Miriam Matthews, Phillip Padilla, Yuliya Shokh
Journal Article

Intimate Partner Violence and Witness Intervention: What Are the Deciding Factors?

This report examines the factors that encourage witnesses of intimate partner violence to intervene (including reporting the violence to the relevant authorities). It draws on qualitative research in Denmark, Germany, France and Portugal.

Nov 25, 2020

Joanna Hofman, Madeline Nightingale, Clara Ellegaard, Cátia Pontedeira, Pedro Sanjurjo
Journal Article

After Parental Leave: Incentives for Parents with Young Children to Return to the Labour Market

This study examines the employment situation of parents with young children in the EU and specifically, the factors that affect parents' return to the labour market.

Nov 25, 2020

Joanna Hofman, Madeline Nightingale, Michaela Bruckmayer, Annemari de Silva, Natalie Picken, Linda Kunertova
Journal Article

Food Insecurity, Participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and the Degree to Which Patients Anticipate Help from Clinics to Find Food in Los Angeles County

Healthcare clinics are uniquely positioned to screen for food insecurity and refer patients to food resources. This is an exploratory analysis informing low-income clinics' efforts to intervene on food insecurity in their patient population.

Nov 25, 2020

Julia I. Caldwell, Dipa Shah-Patel, Deborah A. Cohen, Alina I. Palimaru, Tony Kuo
Journal Article

Examining Design and Statistical Power for Planning Cluster Randomized Trials Aimed at Improving Student Science Achievement and Science Teacher Outcomes

In this study, we consider strategies to maximize the efficiency of the study design when both student and teacher effects are of primary interest.

Nov 25, 2020

Qi Zhang, Jessaca Spybrook, Fatih Unlu
Journal Article

What Happens When You Combine High School and College? The Impact of the Early College Model on Postsecondary Performance and Completion

What happens when you combine high school and college? The impact of the early college model on postsecondary performance and completion.

Nov 25, 2020

Julie Edmunds, Fatih Unlu, Jane Furey, Elizabeth J Glennie, Nina Arshavsky
Journal Article

Effects on Mathematics and Executive Function of a Mathematics and Play Intervention Versus Mathematics Alone

Effects on mathematics and executive function of a mathematics and play intervention versus mathematics alone.

Nov 25, 2020

Douglas H. Clements, Julie Sarama, Carolyn Layzer, Fatih Unlu, Lily Fesler
Journal Article

Effects of Opting-Out from Federal Nurse Anesthetists' Supervision Requirements on Anesthesiologist Work Patterns

In response to California opting out of a supervision requirement for CRNAs, anesthesiologists' did not change time spent working, or time spent supervising CRNAs. They did decrease direct care clinical work hours and worked more in intraoperative care and less in postoperative care.

Nov 25, 2020

Matthew D. Baird, John M. O'Donnell, Grant R. Martsolf
Report

The Benefits and Costs of Decarbonizing Costa Rica's Economy: Informing the Implementation of Costa Rica's National Decarbonization Plan Under Uncertainty

The authors evaluate the benefits and costs of Costa Rica's National Decarbonization Plan, using a novel methodology for planning under deep uncertainty, and find a net economic benefit in virtually all scenarios.

Nov 24, 2020

David G. Groves, James Syme, Edmundo Molina-Perez, Carlos Calvo Hernandez, Luis F. Víctor-Gallardo, Guido Godinez-Zamora, Jairo Quirós-Tortós, Felipe De León, Andrea Meza Murillo, Valentina Saavedra Gómez, Adrien Vogt-Schilb
Journal Article

The Surgical and Anesthesia Workforce and Provision of Surgical Services in Rural Communities: A Mixed-Methods Examination

This mixed-methods study describes the distribution of the surgical and anesthesia workforce and qualitatively explores how such workforce and other factors influence rural hospitals' provision of surgical services.

Nov 24, 2020

Catherine C. Cohen, Matthew D. Baird, Nirabh Koirala, Ryan Kandrack, Grant R. Martsolf
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Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups: A Tutorial on the TWANG Shiny Application for Three or More Treatment Groups

This tutorial describes how to use a menu-driven Shiny application based on the Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups (TWANG) R package.

Nov 24, 2020

Beth Ann Griffin, Chuck Stelzner, Ricardo Sanchez, Matthew Cefalu, Daniel F. McCaffrey
Report

Independent Evaluation of the Flow Coaching Academy Programme: Final report

RAND Europe conducted an independent evaluation of the Flow Coaching Academy programme. The evaluation looked at the effectiveness, impact and ability to scale of the programme.

Nov 24, 2020

Miriam Broeks, Eleftheria Iakovidou, Jack Pollard, Rachael Finn, Sarah Ball, Joanna Hofman, Tom Ling

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