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Jan 11, 2024

Doing More with Less: A Proposal to Advance Cigarette Packaging Regulations in the United States

This commentary works through some of the conceptual, practical, and legal issues regarding cigarette packaging regulations in the United States.

William G. Shadel, Steven C. Martino, Claude Messan Setodji, Michael S. Dunbar, Desmond Jenson, Jody Chin Sing Wong, Grace Falgoust
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Acceptability of Telelactation Services for Breastfeeding Support Among Black Parents: Semistructured Interview Study

Telelactation may help reduce disparities by increasing access to lactation consultants, but there is limited research on acceptability among minoritized individuals.

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Resources for Organizations Serving Youth Exiting Foster Care

RAND researchers created an online directory of public funding sources for organizations providing critical services to youth exiting foster care and identified gaps in funding, as well as barriers and facilitators to accessing funding.

Petra W. Rasmussen, Sara G. McCleskey, Jamie L. Ryan, Emma Bianculli, Andrew Sloan, Amy L. Shearer
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Dec 22, 2023

Understanding the Landscape of Public Funding for Organizations Serving Transition-Age Foster Youth

RAND researchers created an online directory of public funding sources for organizations providing critical services to youth exiting foster care and identified gaps in funding, as well as barriers and facilitators to accessing funding.

Petra W. Rasmussen, Sara G. McCleskey, Jamie L. Ryan, Emma Bianculli, Andrew Sloan, Amy L. Shearer
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Dec 6, 2023

Barriers and Facilitators to Optimal Fluoride Varnish Application

Guidelines recommend that children under age six receive fluoride varnish (FV) in medical settings. However, application rates remain low. This study aimed to update understanding of barriers and facilitators to guideline concordant FV application.

Sarah L. Goff, Charlotte F. Gilson, Erin DeCou, Andrew W. Dick, Kimberley Geissler, Michelle Dalal, Ashley M. Kranz
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Dec 5, 2023

Co-Designing Capabilities for a Robust Pandemic Response: Stakeholder Engagement for Visioning, Backcasting, and Evaluating New Decision-Support Capabilities

The authors describe workshops convening public health policymakers to backcast a future in which pandemic response was improved, frame pandemic decision challenges, and demonstrate analytic capabilities to support robust decisions in such a future.

Pedro Nascimento de Lima, Abby Stevens, Raffaele Vardavas, Jonathan Ozik, Robert J. Lempert
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Oct 27, 2023

A Feasibility Study of Differentially Private Summary Statistics and Regression Analyses with Evaluations on Administrative and Survey Data

This paper studies the feasibility of using differentially private (DP) methods to make certain queries while preserving privacy.

Andrés F. Barrientos, Aaron R. Williams, Joshua Snoke, Claire McKay Bowen
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Oct 25, 2023

Bidirectional Associations Between Daily Sleep and Wake Behaviors in Urban American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Youth

This is the first study to examine daily, bidirectional associations between sleep and wake behaviors/mood in urban American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) adolescents.

Lu Dong, Elizabeth J. D'Amico, Daniel Dickerson, Ryan Andrew Brown, Alina I. Palimaru, Carrie L. Johnson, Wendy M. Troxel
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Oct 18, 2023

Defining Narrow Cost Analysis: A Brief for CCDF Lead Agencies

This brief has three goals: define narrow cost analysis; define and discuss child care costs and prices; explain how narrow cost analysis helps inform payment rates.

Julia Isaacs, Lynn A. Karoly, Pia Caronongan, Katie Gonzalez, Peter Willenborg, Sarah Prendergast
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Oct 18, 2023

Promoting Sustainability of Child Care Programs During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Considerations for States in Allocating Financial Resources

This paper provides basic background information about the structure of child care costs and revenues, and describes implementation issues for allocating financial resources to child care programs.

Andrew Burwick, Elizabeth Davis, Lynn A. Karoly, Theresa Schulte, Kathryn Tout
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Oct 16, 2023

Change in Caregiving to Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Differences by Dementia Status

Results demonstrate impact of COVID-19 on 3451 family caregivers of older adults on changes to care activities and support networks. Dementia caregivers lost more social ties and performed more care activities relative to before the pandemic.

Esther M. Friedman, Allison Kirkegaard, David P. Kennedy, Sarah E Edgington, Regina A. Shih
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Oct 16, 2023

Approaches to Narrow Cost Analysis: A Report for CCDF Lead Agencies

This is the second in a series on narrow cost analysis. The aim of the series is to help Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agencies understand the requirements, approaches, and uses of a narrow cost analysis.

Katie Gonzalez, Julia Isaacs, Pia Caronongan, Peter Willenborg, Lynn A. Karoly

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