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Examining Effects of Small Area Fair Market Rent on the Housing Choice Voucher Program

Project
Housing Choice Vouchers let residents choose housing units that meet rent and quality guidelines. Using a single metropolitan-wide standard to set the maximum subsidy for voucher holders can limit recipients’ access to neighborhoods with high-performing…
Spotlight On: Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC)

Spotlight On: Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC)

Spotlight On
By combining technical, communications, and behavior-change expertise while applying the principles of behavioral-economics, Abt campaigns successfully encourage audiences to adopt recommended actions.
Combatting Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)

Combatting Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)

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Ascend Lot 1 – The UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) set out to invest £100 million in 11 countries in East and Southern Africa and South Asia to advance the impact and sustainability of national programmes tackling NTDs…
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Service Function Review of Palliative Care Services

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Abt's review of palliative care services for the Australian Capital Territory Government identified critical gaps in service capacity and coordination.
Evaluating California’s Project Roomkey

Evaluating California’s Project Roomkey

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Implemented by the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) and counties across California, the Project Roomkey (PRK) Program was a statewide effort to protect people experiencing homelessness by giving them an alternative to staying on the street…
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Helping Get the Kinks out of Home Health Prospective Payments

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Changes in the complex prospective payment system (PPS) for home health agencies (HHAs) may have led to HHA behavior changes that thwarted the modifications’ goals. As a result, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wanted an assessment of…
Assessing FMLA: Results from 2018 Surveys

Assessing FMLA: Results from 2018 Surveys

Publication
56% of private workers are eligible for medical leave under the FMLA, and 95 percent of worksites reported positive or neutral perceptions of the law’s effects.
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Understanding Encampments of People Experiencing Homelessness and the Related Costs

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Homeless encampments have not been as visible on the American landscape since the Great Depression. Today’s encampments appear to reflect a complex set of factors, including increasing numbers of people living in deep poverty, underinvestment in new…
Three Tips for Observing National Health Quality Week … and Beyond

Three Tips for Observing National Healthcare Quality Week … and Beyond

Blog
Abt’s Lynn Hoffman offers three tips for observing National Health Quality Week based on our work for CDC and on AHRQ’s Making Healthcare Safer III Report.