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ZIP Code-Level Estimation of Air Quality and Health Risk Due to Particulate Matter Pollution in New York City
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Abt helped design the ZAPPA tool so New York City could evaluate the potential impacts of proposed environmental polices, down to the neighborhood level.
Promoting Children’s Savings Accounts
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Employment rates and earnings rise sharply for those with a post-secondary education. However, the high cost can put it out of reach for many children; fully 97 percent of college students from low-income households are unable to cover their costs…
Lake Superior Manoomin and Ecosystem Characterization Study
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A variety of environmental factors threaten manoomin (wild rice) in the Lake Superior Basin. Given that, as part of the Lake Superior Wild Rice Initiative, Lake Superior Basin Anishinaabe communities, NOAA, and state agencies sought to document and…
Association of Participation in the Oncology Care Model with Medicare Payments, Utilization, Care Delivery, and Quality Outcomes
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Abt’s evaluation of CMS’s OCM payment model found that it helped reduce Medicare payments for oncological care.
Gympie Nurse Practitioner Program Evaluation
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A high number of non-urgent cases that could be addressed by general practice (GP) doctors are presenting unnecessarily at hospital emergency departments (EDs); these are potentially avoidable. Strategies that can save ED health professionals’ time also…
A Research Agenda to Support the Optimal Use of Telehealth
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This white paper looks at how we can implement telehealth on an ongoing basis after the 154-percent increase in use in the wake of COVID-19.
Building a 21st Century Road Map to Child Welfare Transformation
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For far too long, the child welfare system has been designed to be reactive, where caseworkers respond after child maltreatment and other adverse childhood experiences have occurred, with the primary intervention being removal from the home. For young…
BRFSS Data Gets the Jump on Chronic Health Challenges
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With health departments at the state and local level, the United States need consistent data to identify trends, track benchmarks and implement solutions at national, state and local scales. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a…
Policy Briefs on HUD’s Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program
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These briefs explore the policy implications of Abt’s evaluations of Compass Working Capital’s financial capability model of the Family Self-Sufficiency program.
Using TAACCCT Grants to Develop and Expand Innovative Training
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Through the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program, the U.S. Department of Labor provided four rounds of grants to community colleges and other eligible institutions of higher education to expand and improve…