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The Role of Faith-Based Organizations During the Pandemic

Apr 16, 2020

Maintaining social and spiritual connections in the midst of COVID-19 are not the only challenges facing communities of faith. Congregations play critical roles in providing social services within communities. How can their services, such as food assistance, be delivered safely?
Essay

Stress Accumulates in Marginalized Communities, Generation After Generation

Jul 8, 2020

Psychologists and biologists have known for years that prolonged stress is toxic to the human body. A better understanding of how stress builds in communities—and the burden it puts on them—can lead to more effective policies to address it.

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Journal Article

Journal Article

A Pilot Test of Game Changers, a Social Network Intervention to Empower People with HIV to Be Prevention Advocates in Uganda

We developed and conducted a pilot test of Game Changers, a 6-session group-based intervention that aims to empower people with HIV to be agents for HIV prevention by initiating conversations about HIV with social network members.

Aug 7, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

Engaging Community Networks to Improve Depression Services: A Cluster-Randomized Trial of a Community Engagement and Planning Intervention

The study results help to identify plausible mechanisms of action for the Community Partners in Care interventions for depression and can be used to guide development of future community health engagement interventions and evaluations in under-resourced communities.

Aug 4, 2020
Report

Report

Conceptualising and measuring quality of life to inform local policy and decisionmaking: A literature review

This literature review identifies quality of life (QoL) measures that may be used by local decision makers. The study found that QoL is a multidimensional concept and many measures were identified, but there was little evidence that they are used.

Jul 29, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

Factors Related to Health Civic Engagement: Results from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes to Understand Progress Towards a Culture of Health

Health civic engagement may help improve conditions that influence health and well-being for all. Focusing on individuals' sense of community and highlighting investments in community health may be associated with increased health civic engagement and improved community and population health.

Jul 24, 2020
Periodical

Periodical

RAND Review: July-August 2020

Feature stories explore what research says about learning loss after extended school breaks; how stress and trauma affect individual and community health; and how a critical care surge response tool is helping hospitals during the pandemic.

Jul 13, 2020
Blog

Online Shopping, Living in a Riskier World, Stress in Communities: RAND Weekly Recap

This weekly recap focuses on Americans' online shopping habits during the pandemic, living in a riskier world, how stress builds in communities, and more.

Jul 10, 2020
Report

Building Community Resilience to Large Oil Spills

How can communities build resilience to large oil spills? This report examines the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and how communities' resilience to similar threats could be improved.

Jul 6, 2020
Dissertation

Dissertation

Not All Housing Is Created Equal: A Mixed Methods Analysis of the Well-Being of Adults in Permanent Supportive Housing in Los Angeles County

Explores the relationship between living environment, subjective well-being and objective well-being outcomes, for a cohort of participants in the Housing for Health's Permanent Supportive Housing program in Los Angeles.

Jun 19, 2020
Multimedia

Policies to Improve Policing in the U.S.

In this Call with the Experts podcast, RAND researchers who work on policing and community safety issues share their insights on the recent Black Lives Matter protests and efforts to reform policing. They discuss findings from RAND research, what defunding the police means, and more.

Jun 15, 2020
Multimedia

COVID-19 Briefing Series: Catalyzing Solutions for a Changed World

Dean Susan Marquis discusses how the Pardee RAND Graduate School quickly pivoted during the COVID-19 pandemic, initiating a series of projects and partnerships to help communities directly respond to the crisis.

Jun 11, 2020
Multimedia

COVID-19 Briefing Series: Evidence for Pandemic Recovery Action

Peter Hussey and Courtney Gidengil discuss how RAND can help rethink and retool our emergency management systems.

Jun 5, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

Assessing and Expanding the Evidence Base for Project ECHO and ECHO-Like Models: Findings of a Technical Expert Panel

Building a strong evidence base will help leverage the innovative aspects of EELM by better understanding how, why, and in what contexts EELM improve care access, quality, and delivery, while also improving provider satisfaction and capacity.

Jun 3, 2020
Multimedia

COVID-19 Briefing Series: Communities, Equity, and COVID-19

Anita Chandra discusses RAND’s efforts to understand COVID-19’s toll on particularly vulnerable populations.

May 28, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

Examining the Association Between Religiosity and Medical Mistrust Among Churchgoing Latinos in Long Beach, CA

The present study examined the association between religiosity and medical mistrust in a sample of Latino adults attending Catholic and Pentecostal churches in Long Beach, CA.

May 19, 2020
Commentary

Relaxing COVID-19 Restrictions Presents Stark Choices

RAND's new COVID-19 interventions impact tool uses epidemiological and economic models and continually refreshed data to estimate what could happen as restrictions are eased. The tool won't make the choices confronting state leaders less painful. But it can provide clear, evidence-based estimates of the health and economic trade-offs.

May 18, 2020
Q&A

Reopening America—The Health and Economic Tradeoffs: Q&A with RAND Experts

Local and state officials are thinking through whether, when, and how to lift social-distancing restrictions. We asked three RAND researchers about the complex problem of reopening.

May 4, 2020
News Release

News Release

RAND Creates Online Tool to Help State and Local Policymakers Manage Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic

A new tool designed to help state and local officials estimate the effects of social distancing and other public health interventions used to combat the COVID-19 pandemic has been released by the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation.

May 4, 2020
Tool

Helpers in Plain Sight: A Guide to Implementing Mental Health Task Sharing in Community-Based Organizations

The United States is facing a mental health crisis, but a large proportion of those who need treatment never get it. Task sharing -- training the staff of community-based organizations to provide some mental health support -- can be part of the solution.

May 4, 2020
Tool

New Tool Can Assess the Effects of COVID-19 Interventions

State and local leaders have taken unprecedented measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 and prevent health care systems from being overwhelmed. As states plan the way to recovery, a new tool can help them estimate both the public health and economic consequences of imposing or lifting restrictions.

May 4, 2020

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RAND Topic:
Community Health and Well-Being

Topic Synonyms:
Neighborhood Health

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