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)Reducing Disparities in Diabetes Care
A study designed to assess the causes of and reduce racial and ethnic disparities in diabetes care among members of health plans.
Contact: Allen Fremont, MD (Allen_Fremont@rand.org) or Nicole Lurie, MD (Nicole_Lurie@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)Overcoming Depression Disparities
A study to examine racial and ethnic differences in outcomes of efforts to improve the quality of care for depression in primary care settings and to describe African Americans' and Latinos' long-term adaptation to and management of depression.
Contact: Kenneth Wells, MD (Kenneth_Wells@rand.org) or Cathy Sherbourne, PhD (Cathy_Sherbourne@rand.org)Treating Childhood Asthma in a High-Risk Hispanic Community
A study to extend the asthma management interventions developed by RAND and the Alianza Contra el Asma Pediatrica en Puerto Rico (Alliance Against Pediatric Asthma in Puerto Rico) coalition to another community and to make it sustainable.
Contact: Marielena Lara, MD (Marielena_Lara@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, which will assess 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)
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