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Medicare Program To Promote Rural Health Care Delivers $381.5m in Net Savings

$381.5m in Net Savings Delivered by Medicare Program That Promotes Rural Health Care

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Abt’s evaluation of Medicare’s AIM found $381.5 million in savings, and raised questions about how those savings—and risks—are shared.
Expanding V-safe COVID-19 Vaccine Pregnancy Registry

Expanding V-safe COVID-19 Vaccine Pregnancy Registry

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COVID-19 may put pregnant women at risk for severe illness or death, but data are limited on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines for them. To monitor potential safety issues, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created the v-safe COVID-19…
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Medicare Part D Opioid Impact Evaluation

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The misuse of opioids is a national crisis. One aspect of the larger problem relates to prescription opioids for Medicare beneficiaries. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) needs to evaluate trends to fight potential fraud, waste, and…
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Mexico Competitiveness Program

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Good governance is critical to Mexico’s long-term competitiveness. Improved competitiveness, in turn, is the key to rational and efficient use of the country’s natural-resource base. This is particularly important for rural producers who live in…
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Drinking Water Treatability Database Update Tackles PFAS

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EPA’s Office of Research and Development needed to expand its online, publicly available Drinking Water Treatability Database (TDB). The goal was to allow the database to better support decision making about emerging contaminants of concern.
New HUD Funding Addresses Three Challenges Identified by Encampment Research

New HUD Funding Addresses Three Challenges Identified by Encampment Research

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Abt explains how the Biden administration’s Initiative for Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness addresses findings from our study of homeless encampments.
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Maternal Health in Rural America: Innovative Solutions

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States and communities are developing and implementing innovative approaches to reduce the alarmingly high rate of preventable maternal deaths in the rural U.S.
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Transition by Design, Not Drawdown: Lessons From Mozambique

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Abt Global’s proven health systems solutions — spanning financing, efficiency, resilience, private sector engagement, and digital integration — equip partner governments to sustain health gains and transition donor-funded programs to full country ownership.
Tracking COVID-19 in Pregnant Women and Infants

Tracking COVID-19 in Pregnant Women and Infants

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Pregnant women may be more vulnerable than the general population to respiratory infections and severe respiratory complications from COVID-19, and CDC needs more research on their potential effects on birth outcomes to continue to guide the public. In…
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The Vulnerabilities of Water Systems to Climate Change in the Philippines

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USAID released its climate-resilient development (CRD) framework in March 2014 to ensure consideration of climate issues in development decision-making. The goals included reducing climate vulnerabilities and improving development outcomes. The framework…