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Portrait of WIC Participants and Programs: Capturing Data through the Abt-Designed Automated Reporting System
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The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides federal grants to states for supplemental foods, health-care referrals, and nutrition education. The beneficiaries: nearly 8 million low-income pregnant,…
Developing the Data To Help Prevent Birth Defects
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Birth defects are the leading cause of infant mortality in the United States, accounting for 20 percent of all infant deaths in 2018. Approximately 3 percent of babies born in the United States are affected by a major genetic or structural birth defect…
Farm to School: A Comprehensive Review from 2010-2020
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Following the 2010 reauthorization of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) created a Farm to School Program to distribute grant funding, provide training and technical assistance for improving access…
Abt Implements SSDI Benefit Offset Demonstration
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In 2015, Congress directed the Social Security Administration (SSA) to test mitigating the effects of ending Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits when earnings exceed the cutoff level. The test allowed beneficiaries to keep $1 in benefits…
Developing the COBRA Health Impacts Screening and Mapping Tool
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Estimating and monetizing public health benefits from reductions in emissions can be a complicated process requiring expertise in air quality modeling, health impact valuation and the monetization of health benefits. Because of this, researchers,…
Three Tips for Observing National Healthcare Quality Week … and Beyond
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Abt’s Lynn Hoffman offers three tips for observing National Health Quality Week based on our work for CDC and on AHRQ’s Making Healthcare Safer III Report.