RAND's evaluation of the Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration grants program found that programs improved access to integrated primary and behavioral health care for people with serious mental illness but had mixed success improving health.
This report is one of a series of RAND reports describing the noncontributory pension program in Yucatan, Mexico; its implementation; its evaluation; and related topics. This report describes a pilot test of debit-card disbursal of pensions there and explores the results from several surveys of this pilot group.
In an evaluation of a pension program in Yucatan, researchers found that low literacy, language barriers, and cultural biases hindered older adult respondents' ability to answer mortality-expectation questions and experimented with new ways of asking the questions. They tried variations of the questions with and without visual aids. They report here what they learned for constructing subsequent survey items.
In July 2012, the City of Santa Monica Human Services Division and the Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District contracted with the RAND Corporation to conduct an assessment of child care programs in Santa Monica. The project sought to assess how well Santa Monica's early and school-age care programs meet the needs of families. Recommendations for improvement focused on advancing access, quality, service delivery, and financial sustainability.
Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration (PBHCI) is intended to improve the overall wellness of people with serious mental illness by providing integrated health care services in a setting where the population already receives care. This report describes the results of RAND's evaluation of the PBHCI grants program, including how grantee programs were implemented, whether the program leads to improvements in outcomes, and which program models and features lead to better processes of care and consumer outcomes.
Comprehensive and reliable statistics are crucial for policy formulation in any region or country. The Kurdistan Region — Iraq is hampered by the lack of such statistics as it aims to improve infrastructure, encourage private-sector development, attract foreign investment, and create a sustainable economy. This volume examines how the Kurdistan Regional Government can assemble the core elements of a quality data system.
The cover story describes ways to account for climate change in water management plans, using the Colorado River Basin and the Sierra Nevada as case studies. Other features explore the burdens borne by military caregivers, the drawbacks of joint aircraft programs, and growing inequalities across the European Union.
Many children in low-income families in the United States are not able to access and use technology in the same ways as their more-advantaged peers. This means they may not be able to benefit from enhanced educational opportunities, and they will have fewer chances to develop the workforce skills they will need to succeed in later life. This Perspective explores the potential role of early childhood education in addressing the digital divide.
The RAND Corporation evaluated the Population and Poverty Research Initiative (PopPov) and its progress in achieving its goals of building and advancing the field of economic demography, orienting the work toward policy-relevant research, increasing economic policymakers' recognition of the value of lowering population growth rates and investing in family planning, and strengthening research capacity in sub-Saharan Africa.
Mothers' work hours are likely to affect their time allocation towards activities related to children's diet, activity and well-being.
A primer on the state of America's poor in the wake of the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009.
This report analyses key societal challenges for the EU until 2030 by exploring the evidence base and uncertainties underpinning global trends — in areas such as migration, employment, inequality or empowerment — and their impact on the EU.
This article empirically examines the 'Big Sort hypothesis'—the notion that, in recent years, liberal and conservative Americans have become increasingly spatially isolated from one another
There is evidence to suggest that antiretroviral therapy (ART) and testing for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) reduce the probability of transmission of HIV.
Analyzes the composition, dynamics, poverty patterns, and individual and family characteristics of young people not in education, employment or training in Mexico.
We examined the relationship between parent-perceived neighborhood safety and children's physical activity, sedentary behavior, body mass, and obesity status on a cohort of US kindergartners from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study.
The presence of food outlets near home is not associated with dietary intake or BMI. In general, shopping patterns are weakly related, if at all, to neighborhoods, perhaps because of easy access to cars.
This paper discusses three broad, diversity-related lessons from the Military Leadership Diversity Commission that can inform police department hiring and personnel management: qualified minority candidates are available, career paths impact diversity, and departments should leverage organizational commitment to diversity. Additionally, specific suggestions are given as to how law enforcement agencies can incorporate each of these lessons.
Effective and accessible pregnancy prevention and family planning programs for homeless youth are needed.
The creation of treatment guidelines and recommendations for future research represents an effort by leading experts to improve access to services for children with ASDs while acknowledging that the research evidence has many gaps.
In November 2012, the Department of Energy and Climate Change unveiled the UK's national Energy Efficiency Strategy, setting out the direction of their policy for the coming decades. RAND Europe's research on
To the extent that there is an association between food environment and youth obesity, the existence of more types of food outlets in an area, including supermarkets, is associated with higher BMI.
Men who have sex with men (MSM) may account for most new HIV infections in Lebanon, yet little is known about the factors that influence sexual risk behavior and HIV testing in this population.
Daunting challenges lie ahead for countries undergoing political transitions in the Arab world. Researchers identify the challenges these countries face and suggest policy approaches that may help foster enduring democracies.
Daunting challenges lie ahead for countries undergoing political transitions in the Arab world. Researchers identify the challenges these countries face and suggest policy approaches that may help foster enduring democracies.
