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Patient-Centered Care: It’s Not Just a Buzzword

Patient-Centered Care: It’s Not Just a Buzzword

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The AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting inspired this blog on the benefits of Abt’s approach to including patient perspectives in health care delivery.
Climate Impacts and Risk Assessment (CIRA) Modeling

Climate Impacts and Risk Assessment (CIRA) Modeling

Project
Abt Global’s staff has developed and implemented spatially specific modeling approaches for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to quantify, and often estimate the cost of, the impacts of climate change on a number of sectors and dynamics in…
The C5+1 Project Helped Nations Plan Climate Resilience

The C5+1 Project Helped Nations Plan Climate Resilience

Project
To support climate resilience activities at the regional level and in Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, high-level discussions between the U.S. Secretary of State and C5 Foreign Ministers led to the launch…
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Food, Agribusiness and Rural Markets in South Sudan

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Abt Global led the USAID- and Feed the Future-funded Food, Agribusiness, and Rural Markets (FARM) projects, which established a strong foundation for agricultural development in South Sudan’s fertile Greenbelt region. The first FARM project, which ran…
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Estimating the Prevalence of ‘Doctor Shopping' for Prescription Drugs

Project
Misuse of opioid analgesics threatens public health and results in rising numbers of overdose deaths and admissions to emergency departments and treatment facilities. In the absence of adequate patient information systems, patients who engage in “doctor…
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Exclusive-Gas Infrastructure Across Europe Leaking Planet-Warming Methane - Video Footage

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In this article, Abt’s Jonathan Dorn discussed ways to address leaking methane—a greenhouse gas—in industrial gas facilities across the EU.
Evaluation of the Cascades Job Corps College and Career Academy Pilot: Technical Appendix

Evaluation of the Cascades Job Corps College and Career Academy Pilot: Technical Appendix

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This technical appendix describes the practices, data, and methods used in the Evaluation of the Cascades Job Corps College and Career Academy Pilot.
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Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Evaluation (BPCI)

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Under traditional Medicare, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pays providers separately for each service delivered, which may incentivize medically unnecessary care.  Providers who participate in CMS’s Bundled Payment for Care…
Evaluation of CMS’s Oncology Care Model

Evaluation of CMS’s Oncology Care Model

Publication
CMS’s Oncology Care Model did not deliver enough savings to offset costs, but the cost reductions it achieved may point the way for future models.