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Diversity and Health Research Profile
Racial and Ethnic Differences
Impact of Medicare on Utilization and Health Disparities
A set of interrelated projects to study the changes in incentives, health care utilization, and health that occur as individuals reach the age of Medicare eligibility and to analyze the effects of these changes on the extent of racial and ethnic disparities in health care utilization and health.
Contact: Nicole Maestas, PhD (Nicole_Maestas@rand.org)High Value Health Care
A study in which RAND will partner with the Brookings Institution to support the High Value Health Care project, a national initiative to improve health care quality and cost-effectiveness, with RAND addressing racial and ethnic disparities in health care.
Contact: Allen Fremont, MD, PhD (Allen_Fremont@rand.org)Statistical Methods for Racial/Ethnic Minorities Data Collection
A study to develop a cost-effective and statistically reliable approach for deriving estimates of the prevalence of various health risk behaviors, risk factors, and outcomes in small racial, ethnic, and other hard-to-reach populations that can be used to better assess the magnitude of health disparities in the United States.
Contact: Marc Elliot, PhD (Marc_Elliot@rand.org)Renal Disease Prevalence
A study in collaboration with UCLA and Charles Drew University to systematically address racial and ethnic disparities in renal disease, which disproportionately affects Latinos and Blacks.
Contact: Roberto Vargas, MD, MPH (Roberto_Vargas@rand.org)Assessing Cultural Comparability of CAHPS®
A follow-on to the initial effort to collect and report consumer information on the quality of health plans and health care, known as the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS®), which is assessing the cultural comparability of data by race and ethnicity.
Contact: Beverly Weidmer, MA (Beverly_Weidmer@rand.org)Race and Criminal Justice Referrals to Treatment
An examination of the adjudication of drug offenders in California from 1982-2005 to determine the extent to which race/ethnicity has played a role in final disposition and referral to drug treatment.
Contact: Nancy Nicosia, PhD (Nancy_Nicosia@rand.org)Examining Effect of Pay for Performance on Disparities
A study examining whether health care disparities are increasing under pay for performance (P4P) programs that aim to improve quality and cost-efficiencies, what factors may be exacerbating or making it more difficult to address disparities in health care, and how P4P programs can be designed to help reduce disparities.
Contact: Cheryl Damberg, MPH, PhD (Cheryl_Damberg@rand.org)Understanding Prisoner Reentry Challenges
A project examining prisoner reentry public health issues in California, the health care needs ex-offenders bring with them, which communities are disproportionately affected, and the health care system response of communities to which ex-offenders return, with a focus on racial/ethnic disparities in access to health care within counties in California.
Contact: Lois Davis, PhD (Lois_Davis@rand.org)
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