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The Association of Nursing Home Quality Ratings and Spread of COVID-19
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This report from Abt and CMS demonstrates that the Nursing Home Compare ratings tool can help identify nursing homes at greater risk of COVID-19.
Building Lab Skills in Tajikistan for COVID-19 and Beyond
Impact Brief
The Abt-led USAID LHSS project helped strengthen the capacity of laboratory specialists in Tajikistan to perform high-quality COVID-19 tests.
Controlling the HIV Epidemic in Mozambique
Project
Mozambique has the eighth highest HIV prevalence in the world, with 12.6 percent of adults living with HIV, and one of the highest HIV mortality rates. The country has made strides in testing people for HIV and providing treatment. But a high proportion…
Local Health System Sustainability Project (LHSS)
Project
Abt helped 25 countries reform their own health financing, improve access to and quality of health services, and prevent and contain disease outbreaks.
Building Evidence on Employment Strategies (BEES)
Project
Many Americans struggle in the labor market even when overall economic conditions are good. Unemployment is persistently high for some demographic groups and in certain geographic areas, and a large proportion of working-age adults – about one in five in…
Building a 21st Century Road Map to Child Welfare Transformation
Project
For far too long, the child welfare system has been designed to be reactive, where caseworkers respond after child maltreatment and other adverse childhood experiences have occurred, with the primary intervention being removal from the home. For young…
HIT-COVID, a global database tracking public health interventions to COVID-19
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Abt contributes to HIT-COVID, a growing database that tracks the implementation and relaxation of policies designed at local levels to halt COVID-19’s progress.
Development of a Conceptual Drinking Water Supply Plan for Minnesota’s East Metro Area Affected by PFAS Contamination in Groundwater
Project
In 2018, the State of Minnesota reached a settlement with the 3M Company regarding contamination of groundwater with PFAS chemicals manufactured by 3M. Under the settlement, the 3M Company provided $850 million to the state, the bulk of which will be…
COVID-19 Vaccine Perceptions and Uptake in a National Prospective Cohort of Essential Workers
Publication
A study of essential workers found that COVID-19 vaccine knowledge, attitudes, and practices responses predict vaccine uptake, which can improve over time.
Providing Employment Services in Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Programs: Responses to COVID-19
Publication
This brief describes how seven programs that provided substance use disorder treatment, recovery services, and employment services adapted to COVID-19.