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Achieving Health Targets in Papua New Guinea

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An alarmingly high prevalence of HIV in certain populations in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is limiting the nation’s ability to advance its economy and achieve lasting prosperity. The country also is dealing with an emergency situation with the rise of multi…
Ensuring Making Health Care Safer III Lives up to Its Name

Ensuring Making Health Care Safer III Lives up to Its Name

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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Making Health Care Safer (MHCS) reports have had an important role in reducing harm and improving the safety and quality of care for patients. 
Housing project in Harlem, New York

Studying the Moving to Work Demonstration Program

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Under federal law enacted in the 1990s, a limited number of public housing agencies (PHAs) have received demonstration authority under which they may experiment with alternatives to the standard rules under which the Housing Choice Voucher and public…
man spoon feeding young child

Market-Based Solutions to Improve Nutrition in Tanzania

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In Tanzania, children are especially vulnerable to malnutrition: 42 percent of the country’s children under age five suffer from stunting, anemia, and other micronutrient deficiencies. Tuboreshe Chakula (Swahili for Let’s Improve Food) was a USAID-funded…
Medical Team Meeting With Senior Couple In Hospital Room

Design & Implementation Support for Maryland Value-Based Healthcare Programs

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Abt helped Maryland design and benchmark a statewide value based care model that saved $689 million and informed national health policy.
Study of COVID-19 in Retirement Villages

Study of COVID-19 in Retirement Communities

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Older adults are among those with the highest risk for medically attended COVID-19. From early in the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC needed data to characterize risk factors and clinical epidemiology of COVID-19 among older adults. The information would inform…
Vehicles partially submerged in flooded area

National Flood Risk Characterization Tool

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Extreme weather volatility has increased the need for more effective and cost-efficient risk assessment tools. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers worked with Abt to address this challenge...
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Evaluating the Healthy Incentives Pilot Demonstration

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Most U.S. adults do not meet the Dietary Guidelines for fruit and vegetable intake, especially people who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits and other low-income Americans. While evidence suggests that improved diet quality…
Evaluating Programs to Prevent Drug Misuse

Evaluating Programs To Prevent Drug Misuse

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As the opioid crisis and misuse of prescription drugs continue, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) wants to ensure its investments in states, tribes, and their grantees created effective prevention programming to…
Collecting Infectious Disease Data in Nursing Homes

Collecting Infectious Disease Data in Nursing Homes

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Infectious diseases can spread quickly through nursing homes, leading to high morbidity and mortality in this vulnerable population. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored this, causing over 1.7 million SARS-CoV-2 cases and almost 168,000 deaths among nursing…