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Analyzing If An Oncology Care Model Will Improve Care and Lower Costs

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Cancer strikes 1.6 million Americans each year. It imposes huge costs: heartache, death, and an estimated $263.8 billion in medical care and lost productivity in 2010, the most recent data available. Cancer care is complex and improving it faces a legal…
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Evaluating CMS’s InCK Model For Kids with Complex Health Needs

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Improving healthcare quality while reducing costs is a goal Abt Global has been helping the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pursue for more than a decade through evaluations and more. CMS’s Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) payment and…
Partnering With CDC to Achieve Public Health Impact Through Research

Supporting Priority Public Health Initiatives at CDC

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is charged with creating the expertise, information, and tools needed for health promotion, disease prevention, injury and disability, and preparedness. As a result, CDC needs partners poised to…
Spotlight On: Opioid Use, Misuse and Overdose

Spotlight On: Opioid Use, Misuse and Overdose

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Our work has helped address the supply of and demand for illegal drugs and the misuse of legal substances for federal, state and local agencies, as well as other key stakeholders.
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Messaging Campaign to Reduce Orphanage Use in Cambodia Provides Mixed Results

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Some Cambodian parents fear they can’t give their kids food, clothes, and education – a future. So these desperate parents hand their children over to orphanages, though they aren’t orphans. The children often face poor care and family separation at best…
Is Your State’s Literacy Approach Aligned with the Evidence?

Is Your State’s Literacy Approach Aligned with the Evidence?

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Cara Jackson offers tips on using evidence-informed resources to help states, districts, & schools improve literacy instruction. 
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Assessing the Massachusetts Education Evaluation Framework

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From 2012-2015, Abt helped assess the implementation of Massachusetts’s new educator evaluation framework. The purpose of the research was to provide the Commonwealth and districts with real-time, usable feedback to support implementation of the…
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Impact of Ready to Work Partnership Grants

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The Ready to Work (RTW) Partnership Grant program, funded by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) following the 2008-2009 recession, was designed to prepare middle- to high-skilled individuals who had experienced long-term unemployment for occupations in…