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News Release
RAND Factbook Highlights Demographic, Mental Health and Labor Participation of Military Veterans
A factbook, accompanied by a collection of infographics, explores trends and estimates about the demographics of veterans. It focuses on the size, sex, age, race/ethnicity, educational attainment, and geographic distribution of the veteran population as compared with nonveterans.
Oct 24, 2023
Testimony
Improving Treatment Outcomes for Veterans with Mental Health Conditions
Current treatments for veterans experiencing PTSD and other mental health conditions are largely effective but they do not work for everyone. More treatments that yield better outcomes are needed. With sustained research investment and careful planning, psychedelic-assisted therapies hold great promise to improve care for veterans.
Oct 19, 2023
Journal Article
Comparing Organization-Focused and State-Focused Financing Strategies on Provider-Level Reach of a Youth Substance Use Treatment Model: A Mixed-Method Study
This study compared two US federal grant mechanisms, organization-focused and state-focused grants, on organization-level implementation outcomes for the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach, an evidence-based practice for youth substance use.
Oct 16, 2023
Journal Article
Housing Insecurity and Sleep Among Welfare Recipients in California
The objective of this study was to estimate the effect of housing insecurity on sleep duration and sleep quality.
Oct 16, 2023
Blog
Israel-Hamas War, Overdose Deaths, Striking Health Care Workers: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on historical context for the Israel-Hamas war, the link between education and fatal overdoses, why U.S. health care workers are striking, and more.
Oct 13, 2023
Journal Article
Changes in Sleep-Wake Patterns and Disturbances Before and During COVID-19 in Urban American Indian/Alaska Native Adolescents
Findings demonstrate positive and negative changes in sleep during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, including simultaneous increases in sleep duration and sleep-wake disturbances.
Oct 9, 2023
Journal Article
Longitudinal Associations Between Sleep and BMI in a Low-Income, Predominantly Black American Sample
This study provides further evidence that, among a sample of low-income Black adults, sleep problems are not longitudinally predictive of BMI.
Oct 9, 2023
Journal Article
Educational Attainment and US Drug Overdose Deaths
This paper studies how overdose rates have disproportionately changed for low education populations.
Oct 9, 2023
News Release
Rise in Overdose Deaths Increasingly Affects Those with Lower Educational Attainment
Drug overdose deaths increased sharply among Americans without a college education and nearly doubled over a three-year period among those who don't have a high school diploma. The findings further highlight a potential association between the rise in drug overdose deaths and barriers to education access, a social determinant of health.
Oct 6, 2023
Journal Article
US State Laws Relevant to Incentives for Health Behavior: A Qualitative Analysis
The research team conducted a systematic NexisUni legal database review of state statutes and regulations effective during 2022 to identify laws relevant to contingency management.
Oct 5, 2023
Report
The AIA Vitality Program in Australia: Assessing the association between engagement activities and changes in health outcomes
RAND Europe conducted an observational study using longitudinal data on AIA Vitality members to explore the impacts of types of physical activity and wellbeing engagement on health outcomes.
Sep 17, 2023
Blog
Teacher Pay, the Costs of Insomnia, Wildfire Prevention: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on teachers' dissatisfaction with their pay and work hours, the staggering costs of insomnia, connections between wildfires and food insecurity., and more.
Sep 15, 2023
Journal Article
Expert Consensus-Based Guidance on Approaches to Opioid Management in Individuals with Advanced Cancer-Related Pain and Nonmedical Stimulant Use
Palliative care and addiction experts considered continuing opioids, increasing monitoring, and avoiding opioid tapering in the context of cancer-related pain and nonmedical stimulant use to be appropriate.
Sep 13, 2023
Journal Article
What's Keeping Kids Up at Night? How Psychosocial Stressors Exacerbate the Relationship Between Sleep and Mental Health
This study examined the association between sleep duration and serious mental illness (SMI) and how this pathway is moderated by psychosocial stressors (discrimination, bullying, and perceived school and neighborhood safety).
Sep 13, 2023
Periodical
RAND Review: September-October 2023
Features explore the impact of four-day school weeks; the risk of people in the intelligence community experiencing trauma; and how insomnia affects societal health, well-being, and productivity.
Sep 11, 2023
Journal Article
How Are State Telehealth Policies Associated with Services Offered by Substance Use Disorder Treatment Facilities? Evidence from 2019-2022
An examination of the effect of state policies on the offering of telehealth at substance use disorder treatment facilities.
Sep 11, 2023
Essay
Insomnia: The Multibillion-Dollar Problem Sapping World Productivity
From the doctor's office to the office at work, good sleep is often overlooked as a key part of well-being. We pay for that. Chronic insomnia is associated with an average loss in workplace productivity of 45–54 days, resulting in estimated annual losses in GDP of more than $200 billion.
Sep 8, 2023
Commentary
The Solution to Telemedicine Prescribing of Buprenorphine Seems Clear to Everyone but DEA
For more than a decade, Congress, clinicians, and policymakers have been requesting implementation of a special registration pathway that would allow registered clinicians to prescribe buprenorphine without an in-person visit requirement. It's clear to us that the time to implement the pathway is now.
Sep 5, 2023
Journal Article
Does Removing Menthol Cigarettes in Convenience Stores Reduce Susceptibility to Cigarette Smoking?
Conducted in the RAND StoreLab — a life-sized research convenience store — researchers evaluated whether the absence of menthol products from a convenience store influenced young people’s susceptibility to cigarette smoking.
Sep 5, 2023
Blog
The State of Public Education, the Opioid Crisis, Defending Taiwan: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on the state of public education in America right now, a missing piece of the strategy for addressing the opioid crisis, emerging technology that could help defend Taiwan, and more.
Sep 1, 2023

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RAND Topic:
Health Behaviors

Topic Synonyms:
Health Behaviour

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Researcher Spotlight

Alina I. Palimaru

Policy Researcher

Alina I. Palimaru is a policy researcher at RAND and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. With a background in mixed methods, her research focuses on the juncture of poverty and health, including health outcomes measurement, quality of life, disability, mental health and substance use…
Evan D. Peet

Codirector, RAND Center for Causal Inference

Evan D. Peet (he/him/his) is an economist at the RAND Corporation, a professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, and codirector of the RAND Center for Causal Inference. His research focuses on health and health policy. Currently, Peet is focusing on substance use disorders…

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