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Press-Enterprise
March 26, 2018
Early one morning before the Inland heat burned the chill off the air outdoors, dozens of men and a handful of women in workout clothes sweated their way through pushups, sit-ups and a 1.5-mile run. A white-haired man in a tan Riverside County Sheriff's Department polo shirt gave everyone a pep talkÃâà...
Vox
February 7, 2018
Bruce Bennett, a senior researcher at the RAND Corporation who has spent decades studying North Korea generally and the Kim family specifically, believes those numbers are on the high side, but he thinks the US would .... One of the best explanations for why came from Bennett, the RAND researcher.
MedPage Today
December 13, 2017
But findings from a novel study by researchers at the RAND Corporation calls the strategy's effectiveness into question for teens at high risk for tobacco use. ... and when we analyzed the data we were shocked to find that this was not the case," RAND researcher William Shadel, PhD, told MedPage Today.
Home Health Care News
December 12, 2017
CMS and the RAND Corporation last month kicked off the second phase of a program to develop and implement a standard post-acute patient assessment data plan, as required under the IMPACT Act of 2014. But they're still ... “It's been challenging,” a RAND researcher said on the call. “It's a heavy lift.
Governing
December 6, 2017
For every $1 spent on the program, the county government saved $1.20 in health care and other social service costs, according to a report published on Tuesday by RAND Corporation, a research firm. “The study provides more fuel to say that what we're doing is effective,” says Marc Trotz, director ofÃâà...
PatientEngagementHIT.com
November 22, 2017
A 2017 report from the RAND Corporation found that federally-qualified health centers (FQHCs) receiving financial support from CMS were more likely to ... These improvements may result in overall better care quality for traditionally underserved patient populations, RAND researcher Justin Timbie said in aÃâà...
NPR
September 6, 2017
There's clear research that starting school at 8:30 a.m. or later has many benefits for teen health. But school districts aren't changing, citing the costs of making start times later. A new study from the RAND Corporation found the potential upside to a nationwide shift for the U.S. economy could be $83 billionÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
September 5, 2017
The researchers said the gain to the nation would be $9.3 billion within two years if every state made the change, a figure that is comparable to the annual ... "Bravo for Illinois," said Rand researcher Wendy Troxel, although the average reflects some starting times that are easier on students than others.
90.5 WESA
May 8, 2017
New research from the Rand Corporation shows that who you are – including your race, education and income – is a big predictor of how healthy you eat. ... 90.5 WESA's Virginia Alvino Young spoke with Rand researcher Tamara Dubowitz about the impacts of building a grocery store in The Hill, and theÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
March 20, 2017
For China, the first of its two “centennial anniversaries”—in 2021 (100 years since the Chinese Communist Party's (CPP) founding) and 2049 (100 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China) —arrives in just four years. Although Beijing has publicly disavowed any timeline for unification withÃâà...
