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RAND Corporation

NonprofitSanta Monica, California, United States
About: RAND Corporation is a nonprofit organization based out in Santa Monica, California, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Health care. The organization has 9602 authors who have published 18570 publications receiving 744658 citations.


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TL;DR: An analysis of novel topics emerging in recent years in research on Latino immigrants, acculturation, and health points to the emergence of a new wave of research that holds great promise in driving forward the study of Latino immigrants and health.
Abstract: This article provides an analysis of novel topics emerging in recent years in research on Latino immigrants, acculturation, and health. In the past ten years, the number of studies assessing new ways to conceptualize and understand how acculturation-related processes may influence health has grown. These new frameworks draw from integrative approaches testing new ground to acknowledge the fundamental role of context and policy. We classify the emerging body of evidence according to themes that we identify as promising directions--intrapersonal, interpersonal, social environmental, community, political, and global contexts, cross-cutting themes in life course and developmental approaches, and segmented assimilation--and discuss the challenges and opportunities each theme presents. This body of work, which considers acculturation in context, points to the emergence of a new wave of research that holds great promise in driving forward the study of Latino immigrants, acculturation, and health. We provide suggestions to further advance the ideologic and methodologic rigor of this new wave.

224 citations

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TL;DR: Efficiency measures have been subjected to few rigorous evaluations of reliability and validity, and methods of accounting for quality of care in efficiency measurement are not well developed at this time.
Abstract: Objective To review and characterize existing health care efficiency measures in order to facilitate a common understanding about the adequacy of these methods.

223 citations

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TL;DR: Although hospital admission generated longer ED stays than any other factor, it did not influence the steep trend in occupancy, and Sociodemographic changes account for some of the increase, but practice intensity is the principal factor driving increasing occupancy levels.

222 citations

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TL;DR: The authors' estimators are different from Joe's, and may be computed without numerical integration, but it can be shown that the same interaction of tail behaviour, smoothness and dimensionality also determines the convergence rate of Joe's estimator.
Abstract: Motivated by recent work of Joe (1989,Ann. Inst. Statist. Math.,41, 683–697), we introduce estimators of entropy and describe their properties. We study the effects of tail behaviour, distribution smoothness and dimensionality on convergence properties. In particular, we argue that root-n consistency of entropy estimation requires appropriate assumptions about each of these three features. Our estimators are different from Joe's, and may be computed without numerical integration, but it can be shown that the same interaction of tail behaviour, smoothness and dimensionality also determines the convergence rate of Joe's estimator. We study both histogram and kernel estimators of entropy, and in each case suggest empirical methods for choosing the smoothing parameter.

222 citations

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TL;DR: This framework is used to explore the potential behavioral effects of decriminalization and legalization and highlights the need for a more realistic perspective that acknowledges the limitations of human rationality and the importance of moral reasoning and informal social control factors.
Abstract: There is an ongoing American policy debate about the appropriate legal status for psychoactive drugs. Prohibition, decriminalization, and legalization positions are all premised on assumptions about the behavioral effects of drug laws. What is actually known and not known about these effects is reviewed. Rational-choice models of legal compliance suggest that criminalization reduces use through restricted drug availability, increased drug prices, and the deterrent effect of the risk of punishment. Research on these effects illustrates the need for a more realistic perspective that acknowledges the limitations of human rationality and the importance of moral reasoning and informal social control factors. There are at least 7 different mechanisms by which the law influences drug use, some of which are unintended and counterproductive. This framework is used to explore the potential behavioral effects of decriminalization and legalization.

222 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Darien Wood1602174136596
Herbert A. Simon157745194597
Ron D. Hays13578182285
Paul G. Shekelle132601101639
John E. Ware121327134031
Linda Darling-Hammond10937459518
Robert H. Brook10557143743
Clifford Y. Ko10451437029
Lotfi A. Zadeh104331148857
Claudio Ronco102131272828
Joseph P. Newhouse10148447711
Kenneth B. Wells10048447479
Moyses Szklo9942847487
Alan M. Zaslavsky9844458335
Graham J. Hutchings9799544270
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202311
202277
2021640
2020574
2019548
2018491