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An innovative new tool that measures health systems performance and dimensions of universal health coverage (UHC) covered in-depth in BMC Health Services Research

Abt evaluated two different programs in Los Angeles to support the creation of permanent supportive housing and found some promising approaches.

A study of essential workers found that COVID-19 vaccine knowledge, attitudes, and practices responses predict vaccine uptake, which can improve over time.

Abt’s Joe Donahue explains how programs like EPA’s Abt-supported GreenChill Partnership can help different sectors reduce hydrofluorocarbon emissions.

"We don’t have any food. They are going to take my kids! Can you help me?" The desperate plea of a mother came through my voicemail. It was dinner time; I had already left the office for the day. I had been working with this family for months to address several safety risk factors. It was a tough case, and my job as a Prevention Specialist with the Department of Social Services (DSS) was to keep this family safely intact. I felt the weight of this responsibility every day. I knew if I did not intervene, foster care would be imminent for the children. However, the call came during the few hours I slept between jobs. I made less than $30,000 per year at DSS and, to make ends meet, worked a second full-time job at a residential program for youth aging out of foster care.

CMS’s Oncology Care Model did not deliver enough savings to offset costs, but the cost reductions it achieved may point the way for future models.