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Improving childhood asthma outcomes in the United States
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ISBN: 0833032429 0833029975 9780833032423 9780833029973 Year: 2001 Publisher: Santa Monica Rand

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An estimated five million US children have asthma. This report argues that many asthma attacks could be avoided - and much suffering prevented and many medical costs saved - if more children received good-quality, ongoing asthma care.

National priorities for the assessment of clinical conditions and medical technologies
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ISBN: 0309042364 9786610212569 128021256X 0309564786 0585149143 9780585149141 9780309042369 0309078741 9780309078740 9780309564786 Year: 1990 Publisher: Washington, D.C. National Academy Press

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Improving Childhood Asthma Outcomes in the United States : A Description of Group Process Methods Used to Generate Committee Recommendations
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ISBN: 1598753800 Year: 2002 Publisher: Santa Monica : RAND Corporation,

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Over the course of 2000, RAND Health engaged an interdisciplinary committee of nationally recognized leaders in childhood asthma in a structured group process to arrive at the policy recommendations proposed in Improving Childhood Asthma Outcomes in the United States: A Blueprint for Policy Action, by M.


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Municipalities on the front lines of Puerto Rico's recovery : assessing damage, needs, and opportunities for recovery after Hurricane Maria
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. RAND Corporation

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To fulfill Congress's requirement for an economic and disaster-recovery plan for Puerto Rico following Hurricanes Irma and Maria, a team from the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center conducted an analysis for the government of Puerto Rico and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The team assessed the hurricanes' effect on Puerto Rico's municipalities and the municipalities' ability to govern, deliver services, and recover from the damage they incurred. To address information gaps in Puerto Rico, the team surveyed officials from all 78 municipal governments, conducted 12 regional roundtables with municipal officials, collected and analyzed available municipal-level data, and consulted with subject-matter experts. The team's analysis shows that municipal governments faced the hurricanes while dealing with severe fiscal constraints caused by declining income — something that complicated response and recovery efforts. FEMA data revealed that the most–heavily affected municipalities were clustered in the southeast coast of the main island, where Maria made landfall, and the central mountainous region, where the rugged terrain exacerbated the hurricane's effects. The team created a framework to evaluate the rate at which different municipalities are recovering, which revealed that the most–heavily damaged municipalities are generally also the ones recovering most slowly. Finally, working with the government of Puerto Rico and FEMA, the team developed a set of courses of action (COAs) for recovery aimed at improving municipalities' capacity to govern and deliver key services. These COAs focus on improving municipal fiscal conditions, implementing regional approaches to service delivery and planning, rebuilding urban centers, increasing transparency, and enhancing municipal capacity.

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