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Independent Review of the Homeland Security Grant Program Terrorism Risk Formula and Data
Researchers evaluated the Federal Emergency Management Agency ' s terrorism risk formula, which considers threat, vulnerability, and consequences of terrorist attacks for allocating resources to the Homeland Security Grant Program. (Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care)
Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care - April 19, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Ian Mitch; Lisa Saum-Manning; Jonathan Cham; Karishma R. Mehta; Kristin J. Leuschner; Henry H. Willis Source Type: research

Trends in Geographic Proximity to Substance Use Disorder Treatment
This study aims to assess trends in the number and characteristics of substance use disorder treatment (SUDT) facilities within the county of residence of adults aged 50+ over time. (Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care)
Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care - April 18, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Kandice A. Kapinos; Maria DeYoreo; Tadeja Gracner; Bradley D. Stein; Jonathan H. Cantor Source Type: research

Getting Students To and Through Advanced Math
Students who take precalculus, calculus, and advanced placement math classes get a leg up when it comes to securing college admission and careers in STEM fields. But a large portion of U.S. high school students don ' t take advanced math. What explains this gap and what can be done to close it? (Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care)
Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care - April 17, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Rebecca L. Wolfe; Elizabeth D. Steiner; Jonathan Schweig Source Type: research

Development of a Medicare Plan Dashboard to Promote Health Equity
The HESS dashboard is a potentially useful tool for presenting data on health equity to health plans. (Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care)
Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care - April 14, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Steven C. Martino; Megan Mathews; Megan K. Beckett; Denis Agniel; Katrin Hambarsoomian; Sarah Scholle; Sierra Collins; Denise D. Quigley; Biayna Teni Darabidian; Marc N. Elliott Source Type: research

RAND HRS Longitudinal File 2020 (V1) Documentation
This tool is a cleaned, easy-to-use, and streamlined data product containing information from the Health and Retirement Study, a longitudinal household survey that facilitates research into different aspects of population aging in the United States. (Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care)
Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care - April 13, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Delia Bugliari; Joanna Carroll; Orla Hayden; Jessica Hayes; Michael D. Hurd; Stephen Lee; Regan Main; Colleen M. McCullough; Erik Meijer; Philip Pantoja; Susann Rohwedder Source Type: research

Improving Transition Assistance for Reserve Component Members
The authors identify unmet needs for transitioning reserve component members, assess the Transition Assistance Program (TAP), and recommend ways to improve TAP ' s effectiveness in addressing reserve component members ' transition needs. (Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care)
Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care - April 12, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Agnes Gereben Schaefer; Maria McCollester; Molly Dunigan; Michelle Gris é ; Katherine Kuzminski Source Type: research

Practice Patterns, Work Environments, and Job Outcomes of Rural and Urban Primary Care Nurse Practitioners
This study compares urban and rural NPs using data from a survey of 1,244 primary care NPs in Arizona, California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington. (Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care)
Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care - April 12, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Hayley D. Germack; Jordan M. Harrison; Lusine Poghosyan; Grant R. Martsolf Source Type: research

Surveying Primary Care Nurse Practitioners
The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of national sampling frames that can be used by researchers interested in surveying or studying the U.S. primary care nurse practitioner workforce. (Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care)
Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care - April 12, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Jordan M. Harrison; Hayley D. Germack; Lusine Poghosyan; Grant R. Martsolf Source Type: research

Methodology for a Six-State Survey of Primary Care Nurse Practitioners
To overcome the limitations of administrative data, we fielded a cross-sectional, mixed-mode (mail/online) survey of primary care NPs in six states to collect data directly from NPs on their clinical roles and practice environments. (Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care)
Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care - April 12, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Jordan M. Harrison; Hayley D. Germack; Lusine Poghosyan; Thomas A. D ' Aunno; Grant R. Martsolf Source Type: research

Audio-Only Telehealth Remains Common At Many Safety Net Clinics
In August 2022, more than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, audio-only telehealth visits still accounted for 1 in 5 primary care visits and 2 in 5 mental health care visits at safety net clinics in California. (Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care)
Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care - April 11, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: research

Does Integration of Palliative Care and Infection Management Reduce Hospital Transfers Among Nursing Home Residents?
We evaluated integration of palliative care and infection management (i.e. merging the goals of palliative care and infection management at end of life) in nursing homes and its association with hospital transfers for residents with advanced illness. (Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care)
Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care - April 11, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Jordan M. Harrison; Mansi Agarwal; Patricia Stone; Tadeja Gracner; Mark J. Sorbero; Andrew W. Dick Source Type: research

Supporting the Mental Health Needs of Community College Students
This report is a descriptive study of eight community colleges at the forefront of implementing multilevel approaches to support student mental health and key facilitators for and barriers to their success. (Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care)
Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care - April 5, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Lisa Sontag-Padilla; Denise Williams; Holly Kosiewicz; Lindsay Daugherty; Heidi Kane; Sarah Gripshover; Trey Miller Source Type: research

How Community Colleges Can Support Student Mental Health Needs
This report is a descriptive study of eight community colleges at the forefront of implementing multilevel approaches to support student mental health, as well as key facilitators for and barriers to their success. (Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care)
Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care - April 5, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Lisa Sontag-Padilla; Denise Williams; Holly Kosiewicz; Lindsay Daugherty; Heidi Kane; Sarah Gripshover; Trey Miller Source Type: research

Understanding Decision Making Around Changing the State Pension Age
This report presents findings from a review commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions to investigate how high-income OECD countries change State Pension age (SPa) and the variables considered when they changed the SPa. (Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care)
Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care - April 5, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Natalie Picken; Merrilyn Groom; Frederico Cardoso; Madeline Nightingale; Joanna Hofman; David Blake Source Type: research

Could Dementia in the National Security Workforce Create a Security Threat?
Individuals who handle classified material could become a security threat if they develop dementia and unwittingly share government secrets. This Perspective proposes a framework to assess this risk and guides further study of this potential threat. (Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care)
Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care - April 4, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Kristie L. Gore; Samantha Cherney; Regina A. Shih; Richard S. Girven Source Type: research