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11-Sep-2007 -- Expanding opportunities for immigrants to obtain legal residency and citizenship may be the best option to offer them better access to health care, according to an article published today by the RAND Corporation in the journal Health Affairs.

“Immigrants now make up 12 percent of the U.S. population,” said Kathryn Pitkin Derose, the lead author of the article and a policy researcher at RAND, a nonprofit research organization. “Ultimately, the health of this large segment of our population will affect the health of the nation.”    » read more »

4-Sep-2007 -- Most patients with depression who are treated by primary care physicians do not receive care consistent with quality standards, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

Physicians had high rates of adherence to just one third of the 20 measures of quality that researchers examined and had low rates of adherence to nearly half of the treatment recommendations studied, according to the report in the September 4 edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine.    » read more »

August 20, 2007 -- The RAND Gulf States Policy Institute (RGSPI), a division of the RAND Corporation, is expanding with the addition of a new office in the central business district of New Orleans.    » read more »

Minorities No Longer More Likely to Be Undiagnosed but Less Educated Are

August 13, 2007 -- The number of men in the United States with undiagnosed diabetes has declined sharply over the past 25 years, with Hispanics and African-Americans no longer more likely than whites to unknowingly have the disease, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today.

Study author James P. Smith found that in 1999-2002 about 20 percent of American men who had diabetes did not know they had the disease, in contrast to 25 years ago when about half of the men with diabetes were undiagnosed.    » read more »

August 7, 2007 -- The U.S. Army is following the Department of Defense policy barring the assignment of women to units whose primary mission is ground combat, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today. However, the study concludes that the policies of the Department of Defense and the Army governing the assignment of military women are difficult to understand, and that there is no consensus among senior defense officials about the objectives of the policies.    » read more »

August 8, 2007 -- The United States should focus its political, security and economic efforts in Iraq toward the single goal of reducing sectarian strife and other violence, but should also start planning now for the possibility that these efforts will not succeed, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today.    » read more »

May 9, 2007 -- Terrorist groups around the world with different ideologies and from different religious and ethnic backgrounds have improved their effectiveness by teaching each other deadly skills such as bomb-making and guerilla warfare techniques, according to a RAND Corporation report issued today.

“Terrorist groups that have little in common and with very different goals are sharing knowledge for their mutual benefit, and that's bad news,” said Brian A. Jackson, one of the authors of the report and the associate director of the RAND Homeland Security Research Program.    » read more »

May 3, 2007 -- A RAND Corporation report issued today says Save the World Air Inc. would need to conduct further laboratory studies and in-use testing to determine the effectiveness of its Zero Emission Fuel Saver (ZEFS) technology that is intended to reduce tailpipe pollutants and increase fuel efficiency in gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles.    » read more »

May 3, 2007 -- Children's exposure to alcohol advertising during early adolescence appears to influence both beer drinking and their intentions to drink a year later, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today.

The study of children in the sixth and seventh grades found that those exposed to alcohol advertising at high levels – from television, magazines, in-store displays and promotional items like T-shirts and posters – were 50 percent more likely to drink and 36 percent more likely to intend to drink than children whose exposure to alcohol advertising was very low.    » read more »

April 27, 2007 -- A RAND Corporation study examining whether women-owned small businesses are underrepresented among firms contracting with the federal government finds that the results vary depending on the way the measurement is made.

The study, conducted for the U.S. Small Business Administration and issued today, is the most thorough analysis done to date of whether women-owned small businesses are underrepresented among firms awarded contracts by federal agencies.    » read more »

April 19, 2007 -- A RAND Corporation study issued today says school playgrounds and athletic facilities can be important tools in the fight against childhood obesity, but many are locked and inaccessible to children on weekends – especially in poor and minority neighborhoods.    » read more »