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To help patients and their families find high quality home health and hospice care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires support for developing and maintaining patient assessment tools and quality measures for its Home Health and…

Nearly 50,000 persons died of opioid overdoses in 2017, which contributed to the first-ever decline in working-age Americans’ life expectancy. A 2012 Abt Global study found wide geographic variation in opioid prescribing in the United States, indicating…

Cancer strikes 1.6 million Americans each year. It imposes huge costs: heartache, death, and an estimated $263.8 billion in medical care and lost productivity in 2010, the most recent data available. Cancer care is complex and improving it faces a legal…

Most military spouses don’t engage in risky drinking, but one in five did, with about half having moved into the risky drinking category over time.

Millions of U.S. children receive free or reduced-price lunches each school day, but that number drops greatly during summer. In 2014, summer nutrition programs reached only about 16 percent of the children who received food assistance during the year…

Abt helped HACLA collect and analyze current Los Angeles rental data, showing rents were about 12% higher than federal estimates and providing evidence to support voucher subsidy levels that better reflect local housing costs and improve access to stable housing.

Around the world, Abt Global partners with donors, federal agencies, and local organizations to build resilient water management and WASH systems. 

Burnout among primary care clinicians and staff is a serious and growing concern but administrators and practice leaders can address it using organization-wide approaches.

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.