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Public Health Benefits per kWh of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in the United States: A Technical Report
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These values help state and local policymakers estimate the monetized public health benefits of investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy (EE/RE).
Assessing the Massachusetts Education Evaluation Framework
Project
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…
Monitoring and Evaluating the PF Better Health Programme-Brazil
Project
The Prosperity Fund (PF) is a UK cross-government fund that addresses barriers that prevent middle-income countries from achieving inclusive and sustainable economic growth. The PF recognises that the development of—and universal access to—a robust…
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…
Supporting Green Prosperity in Indonesia
Project
Indonesia needed to adopt environmentally sustainable, low-carbon economic growth for its 250 million people. Among other things, it needed better land-use planning. As part of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Green Prosperity (GP) Project, the…
Decreases in inpatient hospitalizations from a technology-based, integrated behavioral health crisis response system: an evaluation of the Grand Response Access Network on Demand (GRAND) Model
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This article showcases behavioral health crisis program, GRAND Model, which was found to be effective in reducing inpatient hospitalizations in Oklahoma.
Modernizing NIH’s Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD)
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The majority of American adults take dietary supplements, and the market for these products continues to grow. In the U.S., dietary supplements are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as food, not as drugs, and do not require approval or…
Medicaid ACOs and Managed Care: A Tale of 2 States
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This report reviews the efforts of Massachusetts and Minnesota to blend their MCOs with an ACO approach to meet Medicaid’s goals.
Spotlight On: Energy and Economic Growth
Spotlight On
Around the world, countries increasingly recognize the critical role affordable, reliable and sustainable energy plays in achieving low-carbon emissions targets and long-term economic growth goals.