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The Impact of Leaking Underground Storage Tanks on Property Values
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Underground storage tanks (USTs) containing petroleum and other hazardous substances are everywhere. Accidental releases of the substances from leaking USTs (LUSTs) pose serious health, economic, and environmental risks to local residents. Abt helped the…
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.
Supporting Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation Efforts
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Economic Mobility & Opportunity (EMO) team aims to improve the lives of people experiencing poverty and to catalyze systemic changes to promote upward mobility.
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...
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…
Setting a Health-Based Benchmark for Lead in Drinking Water
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Abt Global provided technical assistance to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water to support the development of a draft report outlining potential approaches to inform a health-based benchmark for lead…
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…
Career Pathways: What We Know So Far and Options for Closing Gaps in Knowledge
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Career pathways strategies offer articulated education and training steps between occupations in an industry sector, combined with support services, to enable individuals to enter and exit at various levels and to advance over time to higher skills,…
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…
Stepped Care for Mental Health Program Evaluation
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One in three Australians will experience mental health issues in their lifetime, but accessing services has historically been difficult and stigmatized. As part of the National Mental Health reform, Primary Health Networks have commissioned locally…