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Health Interventions

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
Blog

Reopening America, China's 'Mask Diplomacy,' State Police Powers: RAND Weekly Recap

This weekly recap focuses on a RAND tool that estimates the public health and economic effects of reopening America, China's “mask diplomacy,” using police powers for pandemic response, and more.

May 8, 2020
Journal Article

A Natural Experiment to Test the Effect of Sanction Certainty and Celerity on Substance-Impaired Driving: North Dakota's 24/7 Sobriety Program

Over half of participants ordered to abstain from substance use complete 24/7 Sobriety without a detected substance use event. At the county level, the program is associated with a 9% reduction in substance-impaired driving arrests.

May 7, 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
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
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
Report

Estimating the Economic Costs of Social-Distancing Policies

To support state and local officials making policy decisions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, RAND researchers developed a series of economic models aimed at estimating the economic consequences associated with a small set of social-distancing policies.

May 4, 2020
Multimedia

The Health and Economic Tradeoffs of Reopening America

In this Call with the Experts podcast, RAND researchers consider the health and economic effects of relaxing social distancing restrictions.

May 1, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

The Relationship Between Engagement in Online Support Groups and Social Isolation Among Military Caregivers: Longitudinal Questionnaire Study

It is unclear how well online groups reduce social isolation and improve mental health among military caregivers. This study focused on members of a new online community for military caregivers, compared with caregivers who were members of existing groups.

Apr 29, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

Eat, Pray, Move: A Pilot Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of a Multilevel Church-Based Intervention to Address Obesity Among African Americans and Latinos

Implementing a multilevel intervention across diverse congregations resulted in small improvements in obesity outcomes. A longer time line is needed to fully implement and assess effects of community and congregation environmental strategies and to allow for potential larger impacts of the intervention.

Apr 28, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

Cost Analysis of a Randomized Trial of Getting to Outcomes Implementation Support of CHOICE in Boys and Girls Clubs in Southern California

This study estimates the societal costs of implementing CHOICE, a voluntary after-school alcohol and other drug prevention program for adolescents, in Boys and Girls Clubs across Southern California with and without an implementation support system called Getting To Outcomes.

Mar 11, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

A Systematic Review of Church-Based Health Interventions Among Latinos

This article reviews interventions that have been tested in congregations with majority Latino populations in the U.S.

Mar 10, 2020
Journal Article

We Need a Taxonomy of State-Level Opioid Policies

Developing and using a state-level opioid policy can facilitate the design and implementation of more effective state-level policies-an essential tool in addressing the opioid crisis.

Feb 7, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

Advancing LGBTQ Health Equity Via Human-Centered Design

Human-centered design (HCD; also known as user-centered design) is well-suited to advance the field of substance use prevention interventions for LGBTQ youths by designing interventions that simultaneously target several the complex, multilevel factors that drive health disparities.

Feb 4, 2020
Tool

Medications for Alcohol Use Disorder in Mental Health Settings

This tool reviews how clinicians who work in mental health settings can provide pharmacotherapy treatment for an alcohol use disorder that co-occurs with a primary mental health condition.

Dec 13, 2019
Commentary

At the Nexus of the Health Care System and the Community

Asthma is a common and expensive childhood condition that erodes quality of life for kids and families. Researchers sought to identify patient-centered interventions to reduce avoidable asthma-related acute care use and improve outcomes. They found that the solutions lie at the nexus of the health care system and the community.

Dec 3, 2019
Report

Report

Gender Differences in Response to Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment: A Systematic Review

If men and women respond differently to treatments for alcohol use disorder, this would be important to consider in treatment selection. The authors of this systematic review sought to synthesize evidence for gender differences in treatment effects.

Nov 6, 2019
Journal Article

Journal Article

Church-based Interventions to Address Obesity Among African Americans and Latinos in the United States: A Systematic Review

The present systematic literature review of church-based interventions was conducted to assess their efficacy for addressing obesity across different racial/ethnic groups (eg, African Americans, Latinos).

Oct 17, 2019
Journal Article

Journal Article

A Religiously-Tailored, Multilevel Intervention in African American Churches to Increase HIV Testing: Rationale and Design of the Taking It to the Pews Cluster Randomized Trial

We describe the rationale and design of a 2-arm cluster randomized trial to test a religiously-tailored HIV testing intervention against a standard information arm on HIV testing rates among AA church members and community members they serve.

Oct 17, 2019
Journal Article

Journal Article

Feasibility and Acceptability of a Mobile Messaging Program Within a Church-Based Healthy Living Intervention for African Americans and Latinos

This study explores the feasibility of using text messaging to send healthy eating and active living messages to congregants from churches whose membership were predominantly AA or Latino that participated in an intervention to address obesity.

Oct 15, 2019

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