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How to Improve Health Care Access and Quality in Rural West Virginia

Dec 17, 2025
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Connecting Schools, Jobs, and Infrastructure for Stronger Communities: Q&A with Heather Schwartz

Oct 9, 2025

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Apr 23, 2026

Duration 25:35

Young and Disconnected in America

RAND's Jennie Wenger and Stephanie Bonds discuss America's disconnected youth—and what it will take to help them thrive.
Research

Apr 20, 2026

Examining the American Mindset on Community Well-Being: Insights from a National Survey

Using 2023 national survey data, this study found that community well-being perceptions are shaped more by access to resources and social trust than by individual well-being or demographics.
Commentary

Mar 25, 2026

Making Housing Affordable: Q&A with Jason Ward

Jason Ward directs the RAND Housing Center. He discusses findings from his recent research, why housing has become so unaffordable, and ways to address the housing crisis.
Commentary

Mar 2, 2026

Getting 'Rural' Right: How a Better Definition Can Drive Better Policy

Improving rural policy begins with measuring rural realities more precisely. Until we define “rural” by the challenges people face rather than the land they occupy, we risk designing policies that look good on paper but ultimately fail rural Americans.
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Feb 16, 2026

Associations Between Historical Redlining and BMI: Potential Indirect Pathways Through Neighborhood Socioeconomic and Environment Factors and Their Associated Lifestyle Behaviors in CARDIA

We used data from the 1985-86 CARDIA study to test whether retrospective cohort associations between redlining and BMI were mediated by paths from census-derived social and economic neighborhood factors.
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Jan 20, 2026

From Childhood to Adulthood: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Social Environments and Psychological Well-Being in Predominantly Black American Urban Communities

This mixed-methods study investigates retrospective perceptions of childhood and current neighborhood social environments and their associations with loneliness and psychological distress in adulthood.
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Dec 17, 2025

Developing a Research Agenda to Improve Rural Health Access and Quality in West Virginia

This report presents West Virginia's strengths and challenges in rural health access and quality and describes a preliminary research agenda to guide evidence-based improvements in access and care delivery across the state.
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Dec 16, 2025

Time as Resource and Experience: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Understanding the True Cost of Caregiving

Caregiving costs extend beyond lost income or hours. This study introduces new time use experience measures—fragmentation, unpredictability, and time quality—to reveal how caregiving affects daily life, well-being, and policy design.
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Nov 18, 2025

Evaluation of the iPrevail Initiative to Provide a Free Online Mental Health App to Los Angeles County Residents: Fiscal Year 2024–2025

This report presents a fiscal year 2024–2025 evaluation of a Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health initiative to provide Los Angeles County residents with free access to iPrevail, a software app offering mental health education and support.
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Oct 31, 2025

Evaluation of Los Angeles County’s 2025 Take Action for Mental Health Social Marketing Campaign

This report presents a complete picture of the Los Angeles County residents reached by the Take Action for Mental Health social marketing campaign across the county population and an evaluation of the campaign’s potential impact in the county.
Expert Insights

Oct 29, 2025

What Predicts Disconnection Among American Youth?

RAND researchers used survey data on disconnected youth — those aged 18 to 24 who are not in school and not working — to examine what early-life factors may predict disconnection in young adulthood.
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Oct 15, 2025

Evaluating Los Angeles County's SNAP-Ed Program: A Multi-Method Assessment

This multi-method evaluation of SNAP-Ed programs in L.A. County provides insights into both the associations between program participation and dietary behaviors and the implementation factors that influence program delivery.

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