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State Policies Requiring Education for Buprenorphine Prescribers Boosts Use of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
States that want to increase access to buprenorphine, a lifesaving medication used to treat opioid use disorder, should consider efforts to enhance professional education and clinician knowledge.
May 26, 2023
Report
How to Strengthen Virginia's Health Care Workforce
Like the United States as a whole, Virginia faces a significant shortage of health care workers in nursing, primary care, and behavioral health. Multiple interventions could boost recruitment, retention, and the structural efficiency of health care delivered by these professions.
Nov 15, 2023

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Stacking Educational Credentials in Ohio: Pathways Through Postsecondary Education in Health Care, Manufacturing and Engineering Technology, and Information Technology
RAND researchers examine students who earned postsecondary certificates in Ohio and went on to earn additional educational credentials. The researchers describe which types of credentials were earned and how students progressed through institutions.
May 11, 2020
Commentary
How COVID-19 May Affect NHS Staff
COVID-19 may leave a long legacy of poor health and well-being in the National Health Service workforce. This could affect quality of care and the financial performance of the system. We need to ensure that NHS organizations provide significant support for health care workers.
Apr 15, 2020
Blog
COVID-19's Effects on Mental Health, Food Access, and Education: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on COVID-19 and mental health, food security challenges during the pandemic, supporting children while schools are closed, and more.
Apr 3, 2020
Commentary
Amidst a Pandemic, a Mental Health Crisis May Be Looming
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on health care workers' mental health could be significant and may weaken the health care system's ability to resolve the crisis and survive over the long term. Interventions to promote psychological well-being should be implemented now.
Apr 1, 2020
Journal Article
Differences in Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Clinician and Group Survey Scores by Recency of the Last Visit: Implications for Comparability of Periodic and Continuous Sampling
Patient experiences an be collected by sampling patients periodically (visits over a 1-year period)or continuously (any visit in a monthly interval). We explored differences in Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Clinician and Group scores using both sampling methods.
Mar 18, 2020
Journal Article
Association Between Opioid Prescribing in Medicare and Pharmaceutical Company Gifts by Physician Specialty
The value of opioid-related gifts given to physicians varies substantially by provider specialty, as does the relationship between payment amounts and prescriber behavior in the following year.
Mar 13, 2020
Q&A
Coronavirus Outbreak Intensifies: Q&A with RAND Experts
Cases of the coronavirus have now spread to several dozens of countries, infecting thousands and thousands of people across the globe. With concerns about the disease rising, we asked a group of RAND researchers to answer a wide range of questions about the crisis.
Mar 5, 2020
Journal Article
When Financial Incentives Backfire: Evidence from a Community Health Worker Experiment in Uganda
Despite stronger financial incentives for community health workers, the entrepreneurial model led to substantially less effort (fewer household visits) than the free delivery model. Our results call into question the notion that an entrepreneurial model necessarily increases community health worker effort relative to free distribution.
Feb 13, 2020
Dissertation
Physician Professional Satisfaction, Job Role and Income in the United States
Three papers covering different aspects of physicians' working lives: factors related to professional satisfaction; perceptions about administrative work; and physician job roles; and an analysis of sex differences in income.
Jan 14, 2020
Tool
User Guide for the Training in Psychotherapy (TIP) Tool 2.0
The Training in Psychotherapy (TIP) Tool assesses how well psychotherapy trainings for community-based providers include elements of trainings identified as potentially effective. This guide provides an update of the TIP Tool based on pilot testing.
Dec 11, 2019
News Release
Federal Disability Payments Encourage More Caregiving Assistance from Family Members
Federal disability benefits can lead to increases in other support for beneficiaries, such as in-kind assistance from adult children. They also increase the likelihood that children are paid for their in-kind assistance and enable children who provide that assistance to reduce the amount that they work.
Dec 10, 2019
Commentary
Recognizing Family Caregivers as Part of the Health Care Team
Recent shifts in health care practices have left family caregivers increasingly responsible for medical tasks. Given family caregivers' central role in medical care, there are efforts underway to improve family caregiver integration into the health care team, but there are barriers to effective integration and engagement.
Nov 18, 2019
Journal Article
Growth and Distribution of Child Psychiatrists in the United States: 2007–2016
Despite the increased ratio of child psychiatrists per children over the past decade, a shortage remains, particularly in places with lower levels of income and education.
Nov 6, 2019
Commentary
Review of Behavioral Health Technician Training, Policies, and Practice Identifies New Opportunities
Behavioral health technicians are trained to be an essential part of the mental health clinical team, serving as provider extenders who work alongside and support licensed mental health providers. What are the factors that affect these roles? And how can the Military Health System most effectively incorporate them into mental health care settings?
Oct 15, 2019
Research Brief
Military Behavioral Health Technicians: Understanding and Optimizing Their Role
Military behavioral health technicians provide clinical services alongside licensed independent behavioral health providers, but they may not get the training and support they need or opportunities to use their full range of skills.
Oct 7, 2019
Report
Understanding Behavioral Health Technicians Within the Military: A Review of Training, Practice, and Professional Development
Are military behavioral health technicians adequately prepared for their roles? Are their skills being put to the best use? The authors examine selection, training, and responsibilities and offer recommendations to optimize training and roles.
Oct 7, 2019
Commentary
Is Training for NHS Staff to Manage Workplace Violence Effective?
Going to work should not mean being subjected to physical or verbal assault, but this is the reality faced by thousands of frontline NHS staff. De-escalation training may help staff manage patient violence and aggression, but there is not enough research about what works in specific healthcare contexts.
Sep 4, 2019
Journal Article
Medical Practice Consolidation and Physician Shared Patient Network Size, Strength, and Stability
Practice consolidation can increase the stability of physician networks, which may have positive implications for organizational effectiveness.
Aug 20, 2019
News Release
California Rules to Limit Surprise Medical Bills Are Working, but Influence Insurer-Provider Bargaining
A California law that limits the size of bills from out-of-network physicians for care delivered in hospitals appears to be protecting patients' financial liability. But it has shifted bargaining leverage in favor of insurance plans and had potential unintended consequences.
Aug 12, 2019
Report
Reviewing the Evidence Base for De-escalation Training: A Rapid Evidence Assessment
RAND Europe conducted an evidence assessment of the de-escalation training literature and found that training may help staff manage patient violence and aggression but de-escalation training may not reduce the number of violent/aggressive incidents.
Aug 6, 2019

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Jason Michel Etchegaray

Associate Director, Disaster Management & Resilience Program, RAND Homeland Security Research Division

Jason M. Etchegaray is an associate director of the Disaster Management & Resilience Program, part of the RAND Homeland Security Research Division, and a senior behavioral social scientist at the RAND Corporation. He focuses on researching areas where industrial/organizational psychology…
Allyson D. Gittens

Policy Analyst

Allyson Gittens (she/her) is a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation. Her research focuses on the social determinants of health, health equity, the health care workforce, teacher workforce and education equity. Gittens has served as project manager and task lead on a number of complex projects…

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