This brief summarizes lessons about recruiting and training home visitors for evidence-based programs from grantees participating in the Children’s Bureau’s Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting to Prevent Child Maltreatment grantee cluster. Key challenges include locating candidates that...

Describes the employment services used by participants in 12 of the state projects. The most common service delivered was benefits counseling, which helps participants understand the effect of employment on an individual’s cash benefits, health care coverage, and eligibility for multiple...

Most research on equal educational opportunity has focused on inputs like teacher experience and degrees. This brief estimated teachers’ value added (contribution to student achievement growth) and measured access to highest-performing teachers in high- and low-poverty schools. Across 10...

This article reviews the recent research, policy, and conceptual literature on the effects of payment policy reforms on evidence-based clinical decision making by physicians at the point of care. Payment reforms include recalibration of existing fee structures in fee-for-service,...

Seeking ways to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate health care to an increasingly diverse population is a growing policy concern. Public hearings held in Connecticut revealed that many of the state's residents with limited English proficiency (LEP) see health care providers...

Diabetes is a growing threat to the nation’s health that has serious and costly complications. This paper looks behind the $79.7 billion estimates for 2005 of medical and disability costs to the federal government cited in Mathematica’s main study. The estimates include $2.5 billion in...

More than 40 percent of the nation’s physicians have access to a basic electronic health record (EHR) system; however, implementation of advanced functions for patient management and care coordination is not widespread, according to a study led by Mathematica and the Mongan Institute for...

Using data from patients surveyed after primary care provider visits, this working paper found patients had favorable perceptions of electronic health records (EHRs). Patients believed that EHRs improved the quality of care, and most were not concerned with confidentiality of records. Adopters'...

Although Medicare+Choice was conceived to bring managed care and competitive forces to bear on Medicare, ultimately it could not thrive under the conditions of the marketplace and the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Reviews what went wrong and the lessons from the experience, concluding that M+C is...

This case study discusses trends in new Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) enrollment of children in Arkansas from 1999 through 2003. Researchers found that policy changes in Arkansas destigmatized public health insurance, leading to increased enrollment in both...