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School Meal Reforms’ Impacts on Nutrition and Costs

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The National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs (NSLP/SBP) underwent widespread changes beginning in school year 2012-2013. USDA needed to know how these food, nutrition and price reforms affected school food authorities and student participation.
Modernized Access to Dietary Supplement Information in the U.S.

Modernized Access to Dietary Supplement Information in the U.S.

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Caring for Nursing Home Residents with Dementia

Caring for Nursing Home Residents with Dementia

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Studies indicate that dementia care in the United States is, generally, impersonal and fragmented. Massachusetts requires long-term care facilities to provide dementia care training to direct-care workers. The intention of the regulation was to address…
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Partial Indoor Residual Spraying with Pirimiphos-methyl as an Effective and Cost-saving Measure for the Control of Anopheles Gambiae s.l. in Northern Ghana

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Partial indoor residual spraying (IRS) is an effective, feasible, sustainable, and cost-saving approach that could expand IRS implementation.
Big Win for Children’s Nutrition: Summer EBT Fully Funded

Big Win for Children’s Nutrition: Summer EBT Fully Funded

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Abt Global’s decade of evaluations of the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer for Children pilot can inform the national rollout of the pilot.
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Estimating the Prevalence of ‘Doctor Shopping' for Prescription Drugs

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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…
Uzbekistan’s Launches New TB Funding Mechanism

Uzbekistan Launches New TB Funding Mechanism

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Uzbekistan is moving from paying TB hospitals based on occupied beds to compensation based on the number of patients treated.
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Research, Monitoring & Evaluation

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Abt Global generates evidence to help clients address tough challenges—in education, housing, child welfare, employment, and health. Our researchers implement effective and efficient processes to collect and analyze vast amounts of data, producing frequently cited studies. Does a program reduce food insecurity and improve nutrition? Does a vaccine wane in effectiveness against a new virus variant? Our global interdisciplinary teams—research methodologists, statisticians, ethnographers, economists, epidemiologists, data scientists, and implementation research scientists— help policymakers answer such questions. They assess whether programs work to improve people’s lives, and if not, how to best resolve them.