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Health Care Access RAND

WEBAccess to health care refers to the ease with which an individual can obtain needed medical services. RAND research has examined the social, cultural, economic, …

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About RAND Health Care RAND

WEBRAND Health Care possesses broad, deep, and longstanding expertise in health policy areas and key methodologies. Key policy areas include: Health insurance costs and …

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U.S. Health Care Policy RAND

WEBThe U.S. health care policy landscape is poised for great change. Extensive RAND research offers insights about the likely impact of repealing or revising the ACA along …

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Health Care Reform RAND

WEBThe debate within the U.S. government about reforming the health care system centers on ways to control rising costs and assure high-quality, affordable care. RAND Health Care …

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Health Equity RAND

WEBHealth equity is fair and just access to health resources, protection from health hazards, and health decisionmaking. RAND research aims to understand the causes of disparities in …

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Innovation in Delivery: How can the U.S. health care system

WEBIn the context of COVID-19, opioid treatment providers transitioning to telehealth during the pandemic quickly switched to providing telemedicine visits in high volume—most of …

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Affordable Care Act RAND

WEBThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) represents one of the most sweeping reforms of the U.S. health care system ever enacted. RAND’s work on the ACA has …

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Community Health and Well-Being RAND

WEBFocus on Wellbeing: Urban Environments, Culture of Health, Military Personnel and Veteran Wellness, and Workplace Wellness Programs. The issue of civic wellbeing has become …

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Distilling the Fundamentals of Evidence-Based Public Health Policy

WEBPublic health policy interventions are associated with many important public health achievements. To provide public health practitioners and decision makers with practical …

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Health Care and Reform Issues RAND

WEBTailoring Disaster and Public Health Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery to the Needs of Older Adults and Disabled Americans. RAND’s Mahshid Abir provides …

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Transforming Mental Health Care in the United States RAND

WEBReforming the U.S. mental health system has received strong bipartisan support at both the federal and state levels. Against this background, a RAND research team sought to …

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Rebuild Public Health for the Next Pandemic

WEBFunctions involved in a pandemic response include contact tracing, testing, isolating infected persons to prevent spread, treating patients, developing a vaccine, and …

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Average Cost of Providing Hospital Care to COVID-19 Patients …

WEBThe average cost of providing care to hospitalized COVID-19 patients increased five times faster than the rate of medical inflation during the first two years of the pandemic, at …

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Price Transparency RAND

WEBHealth care services and prescription drugs rarely come with a single, straightforward price tag. There are usually many different prices for the same service, and these prices vary …

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Patients & Families Co-Occurring Disorders Resource Center RAND

WEBRecovering from co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders, or COD, is possible and within your reach. For many people, it can be difficult to know where to …

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What Have We Learned About the Economic Effects of Vertical

WEBIn brief, we learned: . Over time, more physician groups have become integrated with hospitals or health systems, more physicians work in vertically integrated groups, and …

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Sleep Alliance: Rebranding Sleep Divorce for Better Rest and

WEBWhen both partners are well rested, they are likely to be less irritable and more supportive, leading to a stronger, more positive relationship. By viewing separate slumber as a sleep …

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Most Americans Consider Themselves Middle-Class. But Are They

WEBIn a 2015 Pew survey, only 10 percent of Americans said they considered themselves lower-class and just 1 percent thought they were upper-class. Earnings have been flat or …

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Working Conditions in the United States

WEBAmericans face unpleasant and potentially hazardous working conditions, physical exertion, unstable schedules, and have to work during their free time. Despite these challenges, …

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Adult Psychiatric Bed Capacity, Need, and Shortage Estimates …

WEBThe top-down estimates of psychiatric bed need—as drawn from the literature and our Techni-cal Expert Panel—also indicated a bed shortage: 8.9 beds per 100,000 adults at …

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