Student-Authored Publications on Health and Health Care

May 1, 2024

Cover: Is Primary Care Patient Experience Associated with Provider-Patient Language Concordance and Use of Interpreters for Spanish-preferring Patients

Is Primary Care Patient Experience Associated with Provider-Patient Language Concordance and Use of Interpreters for Spanish-preferring Patients: A Systematic Literature Review

Healthcare provided by a bilingual provider or with the assistance of an interpreter improves care quality; however, their associations with patient experience are unknown.

Denise D. Quigley, Nabeel Qureshi, Zachary Predmore, Yareliz Diaz, Ron D. Hays

Apr 18, 2024

Navigating Funding Cliffs: An Exploration of the Dynamic Contextual Factors That Influence Evidence-Based Practice Sustainment

This longitudinal qualitative study described trajectories of sustainment for an evidence-based youth substance use treatment in community-based treatment organizations that were navigating "funding cliffs" (i.e., the end of initial grant funding).

Kerry Lindquist, Sapna J. Mendon-Plasek, George Timmins, Alex R. Dopp, Sarah B. Hunter

Apr 4, 2024

Evaluation of the California Multi-County Full Service Partnership Innovation Project

This report describes an evaluation of the California Multi-County Full Service Partnership Innovation Project. There is evidence that the project led to improvements in processes and outcomes among the first cohort of six participating counties.

Nicole K. Eberhart, J. Scott Ashwood, Wendy Hawkins, Alison Athey, Stephanie Williamson, Alejandro Roa Contreras, Ryan K. McBain, Stacey Yi, Priya Gandhi

Mar 27, 2024

Cover: Keeping Soft Targets and Crowded Places Safe from Mass-Casualty Attacks

Keeping Soft Targets and Crowded Places Safe from Mass-Casualty Attacks: Insights from a Landscape Assessment

Soft targets and crowded places, such as schools, are accessible to large numbers of people and have limited security measures in place. Researchers assessed vulnerabilities and recommended investments and priorities to prevent future attacks.

John S. Hollywood, Keith Gierlack, Pauline Moore, Thomas Goode, Henry H. Willis, Devon Hill, Rahim Ali, Annie Brothers, Ryan Bauer, Jonathan Tran

Mar 26, 2024

Incident Management Measurement Toolkit

This toolkit is designed to assess the effectiveness of incident management during and after real-life public health incidents and realistic exercises, which will help incident managers identify opportunities for improvement.

Christopher Nelson, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Vanessa Parks, Jalal Awan, Jay Balagna, Laura Fraade-Blanar, Grace Hindmarch

Mar 20, 2024

Cover: The Road to 988/911 Interoperability

The Road to 988/911 Interoperability: Three Case Studies on Call Transfer, Colocation, and Community Response

This report presents case studies of jurisdictions that have established interoperability between 911 and the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline—the national mental health emergency hotline—allowing the transfer of calls from 988 to 911 and vice versa.

Stephanie Brooks Holliday, Samantha Matthews, Wendy Hawkins, Jonathan H. Cantor, Ryan K. McBain

Mar 14, 2024

Cover: Staffing, Budget, Politics, and Academic Recovery in Districts

Staffing, Budget, Politics, and Academic Recovery in Districts: Selected Findings from the Fall 2023 American School District Panel Survey

Authors provide an update on four key challenges that U.S. school districts face today — school staffing, budgeting, the politicization of schooling, and academic recovery efforts — using data from the fall 2023 American School District Panel survey.

Melissa Kay Diliberti, Heather L. Schwartz

Aug 8, 2022

Identifying and Understanding Ways to Address the Impact of Racism on Patient Safety in Health Care Settings

RAND Corporation and MedStar researchers examined the intersection of patient safety and racism, focusing on patient safety and health equity from clinician leaders' perspectives.

Lucy B. Schulson, Angela D. Thomas, Jeannette Tsuei, Jason Michel Etchegaray

Jul 19, 2022

Cover: Districts Continue to Struggle with Staffing, Political Polarization, and Unfinished Instruction

Districts Continue to Struggle with Staffing, Political Polarization, and Unfinished Instruction: Selected Findings from the Fifth American School District Panel Survey

To obtain a national picture of districts' challenges at the end of the third school year during the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors assess nationally representative survey responses from 291 district leaders who completed the American School District Panel in spring 2022.

Melissa Kay Diliberti, Heather L. Schwartz

Jul 12, 2022

Technical Documentation for the Fifth American School District Panel Survey

This report provides technical information about the spring 2022 survey of the American School District Panel. The authors describe the survey administration and weighting processes they used to produce nationally representative estimates.

David Grant, Claude Messan Setodji, Gerald P. Hunter, Melissa Kay Diliberti

Jul 12, 2022

Cover: State of the Superintendent — High Job Satisfaction and a Projected Normal Turnover Rate

State of the Superintendent — High Job Satisfaction and a Projected Normal Turnover Rate: Selected Findings from the Fifth American School District Panel Survey

To obtain a national picture of U.S. superintendents' job satisfaction and intentions to remain in their position, researchers surveyed a nationally representative sample of 222 superintendents in the American School District Panel in spring 2022.

Heather L. Schwartz, Melissa Kay Diliberti

Jul 7, 2022

Depressive Symptoms Among US Adults During the Great Recession and Economic Recovery

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data show a statistically significant increase in depressive symptoms from 2005/2006 to 2007/2008 (the beginning of the Great Recession), but there were no significant or consistent changes after 2007/2008.

Annie Chen, Roland Sturm