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Treating Breast Cancer Is Not Just About the Disease: Its Wider Impacts Need to Be Considered, Too

Oct 22, 2019

Successes in the early treatment of breast cancer are to be celebrated. But those achievements need not limit the development of further and better treatment for patients. Understanding the disease's wider effects could help bring this about.
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Long-Term Care Policy: Who Should Be at the Table?

Feb 2, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored that long-term care residents, their families, and staff have limited representation when it comes to facility policies. Recognizing them as stakeholders with perspectives to include in decisionmaking could improve infection control practices and also address residents' health-related quality of life.

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Beyond Sweatpants: Waking Up in a Post–COVID-19 World

When it comes to morning wake schedules, adjusting to post–COVID-19 life may be a challenge. Small steps now may help get you better prepared for the shock of returning to the morning rush.

Apr 14, 2021
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The Debate Over Daylight Saving Time

RAND senior behavioral/social scientist Wendy Troxel discusses the ongoing debate over whether or not to observe Daylight Saving Time (DST).

Mar 16, 2021
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Don't Let 'Springing Forward' Set You Back in Your Relationship

When we're sleep-deprived, we're more irritable, more prone to conflict, our communication skills suffer, and we're less empathic. Here are five tips to help you protect the health of your body and your relationship as you and your partner weather the storm of daylight saving time.

Mar 10, 2021
Journal Article

Education and Health Over the Life Cycle

We extend the Grossman (1972) model of the demand for health and use it to analyze the effect of education on health at different ages.

Jan 26, 2021
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Redesigning Surgical Decision Making for High-Risk Patients

This article discusses how patients should be counseled about the risks of complications and functional impairment after major surgery.

Dec 30, 2020
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When In Doubt, Do What Doesn't Come Naturally

When we are feeling anxious or depressed or otherwise bad, we experience a variety of urges toward things that we think will make us feel better, but ultimately make us feel worse. Connecting with a friend, exercising, accomplishing a task, and helping others are some things that can actually help.

Nov 5, 2020
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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

Assessing the Burden of Nocturia in the Workplace: The Associations Between Nocturnal Voiding, Subjective Well-Being, Work Engagement and Productivity

Using large-scale international workplace survey data, this study assessed the burden of nocturia in the workplace by investigating associations between nocturia and subjective well-being, work engagement and productivity.

Jun 5, 2020
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How to Avoid the Season of Regret

The holiday season can bring with it not only the sting of cold air, but also the sting of regret. Regret is a slippery slope for mental health. RAND's Wendy Troxel shares simple, science-backed strategies to dodge year-end regrets.

Dec 20, 2019
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Healthy Vitality Age

Healthy Vitality Age, an extension of the updated Vitality Age Calculator, uses the Health Adjusted Life Expectancy to account for both mortality and morbidity while adjusting the life expectancy by the amount of time lived in suboptimal health.

Jun 27, 2019
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Vitality Age with pre-existing conditions

The Vitality Age with pre-existing conditions (VAPC) is an extension to VA.3, allowing explicit differentiation between individuals with one or more selected pre-existing conditions that negatively affect their health and life expectancy.

Jun 25, 2019
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Waking Up to the Costs of Nocturia

Nocturia is a troublesome lower urinary tract condition that causes people to wake up two or more times a night to empty their bladder. Researchers calculated the overall economic cost associated with nocturia in a working-age population across six countries.

Jun 18, 2019
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Findings from a systematic review to explore the patient and societal impacts of disease progression in women who were treated for early breast cancer: Implications for future research, policy and practice

RAND Europe conducted a study on the societal impact of early breast cancer. This study was divided into three connected phases. The second phase was a systematic review on non-clinical outcomes of recurrence after treatment of early breast cancer.

Jun 11, 2019
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A Review of the Research Landscape for Treatment of Early Breast Cancer: Implications for future research, policy and practice

RAND Europe conducted a study on the societal impact of early breast cancer. This study was divided into three interconnected phases. The first phase was a mapping review on the published literature on the impacts of treatment of early breast cancer.

Jun 11, 2019
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Factors affecting access to treatment of early breast cancer: Case studies from Brazil, Canada, Italy, Spain and UK: Implications for future research, policy and practice

RAND Europe conducted a study on the societal impact of early breast cancer, divided into three interconnected phases. The third phase was a qualitative study assessing the factors affecting access and delivery of treatment for early breast cancer.

Jun 11, 2019
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Understanding the societal impact of treatment of early breast cancer: What are the non-clinical outcomes associated with disease progression?

RAND Europe conducted a study on the societal impact of early breast cancer. This study was divided into three interconnected phases. This is the summary report of the cross-analysis of data gathered through the three phases.

Jun 11, 2019
Journal Article

Evaluation of a Policy Intervention to Promote the Health and Wellbeing of Workers in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial

A cluster randomised controlled trial was designed to establish whether small-medium enterprises will improve their health and wellbeing offer and achieve higher employee awareness and participation in the offer due to a monetary wellbeing incentive.

May 29, 2019
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A scoping study on the link between exposure to or interaction with the natural environment and mental health outcomes

This scoping review explores the association between exposure to the natural environment and mental health. While no definitive conclusions can be made, the study highlights.

May 20, 2019

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