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Health Care Tools and Methods

Developing tools for improving health is part of RAND Health Care's ongoing commitment to translate research into real-world solutions. The tools help individuals, organizations, and government define—and tackle—their own challenges.

Dec 1, 2020
Multimedia

How Can We Achieve Herd Immunity?

RAND senior economist Krishna Kumar describes several factors that could affect the likelihood of achieving herd immunity against COVID-19.

Aug 5, 2020
News Release

Project Will Create First Digital Health Dataset That Includes Traditionally Underrepresented Groups

An initiative to create the first large-scale digital health dataset of Americans that is fully representative across all socio-demographic groups—including ethnic and economic groups usually underrepresented—has been launched by the University of Southern California Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, the RAND Corporation and Evidation Health.

Jul 28, 2020
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
Q&A

Balancing Public Health and Economic Effects of Physical Distancing: Q&A with Jonathan Welburn

Jonathan Welburn, an operations researcher at RAND, has spent years studying how economic shocks ripple outward like a contagion through the economy. He recently helped develop an online tool that policymakers can use to manage the health and economic effects of COVID-19 interventions.

Jul 13, 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
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
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
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

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
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
Commentary

After School Shootings, Children and Communities Struggle to Heal

School shootings leave wounds that affect students, school staff, families, and communities for years. Building community resilience, implementing evidence-based mental health support early, and providing access for survivors and the community immediately and in the long term could help promote healing and prevent more tragedy.

Jul 19, 2019
Commentary

Measuring Progress Toward a Culture of Health... at the Library

Libraries can provide much more than books and internet access. Libraries across the United States are evolving to play a bigger role in community health. Many offer nutrition programs, mental health support, and even free bike-shares.

Nov 21, 2018
Tool

Monitoring Prevention Mental Health Programs: Supporting California Counties to Meet Statewide Reporting Requirements

In this document, RAND researchers describe how they developed a tool to help the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health comply with regulations to report on outcomes for prevention mental health programs.

Sep 28, 2018
Commentary

Local Development of a Culture of Health: Learning from Sentinel Communities

The Culture of Health project focuses on making health a priority in communities. As the United States grapples with health care spending and changing demographics, the Sentinel Communities project will illuminate stories from local communities and paint a picture of the ways communities strive to improve population health.

Aug 1, 2018
News Release

Evaluation of Mental Health Service Act in L.A. County Shows Services Reaching Those in Need

Funding from California's special tax for mental health services has allowed Los Angeles County to reach the seriously mentally ill and those at risk for mental illness with services and prevention efforts, lowering both homelessness and the need for psychiatric hospitalizations, while improving employment and wellbeing.

Mar 13, 2018
Journal Article

A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Getting To Outcomes' Impact on Sexual Health Outcomes in Community-Based Settings

Getting to Outcomes, an implementation support intervention, can strengthen evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs.

Dec 5, 2017
Commentary

Raising Awareness of the Need for Collaborative Care to Treat PTSD

Post-traumatic stress disorder affects nearly 8 percent of American adults from all walks of life. Research suggests that more work is needed to improve and adapt models of care for PTSD.

Jun 23, 2017
Report

Evaluation Approaches for Mental Health Prevention and Early Intervention Programs

This handbook provides guidance to practitioners and organizations interested in evaluating mental health prevention and early intervention programs.

Jun 13, 2017

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