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The American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession recently launched a research initiative, ABA Women of Color in the Legal Profession Study, to examine the experiences of female at...
Accelerating Transition to Virtual Research Organization in Social Science (AVROSS)
AVROSS is an effort to understand the reasons behind low levels of adoption of e-Infrastructures in the social sciences and humanities. It also aims to support optimization of powerful distri...
AHRQ National Resource Center for Health Information Technology
For the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), NORC, in cooperation with several partners, has led the development of a national resource center (NRC) for AHRQ’s Health Informatio...
American Hospital Association's Quality Center
The American Hospital Association’s Quality Center, a forum for practice-focused learning, is a repository of action-oriented tools and information to help hospital executives make the case f...
Analysis of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Disparities in the Appalachian Region and Access to Treatment Services
The NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis and the Substance Abuse, Mental Health, and Criminal Justice Systems Department at NORC conducted a study for the Appalachian Regional Commission (AR...
Assessment of the Healthy People Objective-Setting Framework and Process
Each decade since 1979, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published a comprehensive set of national public health objectives. Known as Healthy People, this i...
Assessment of the Uses and Users of HealthierUS and Healthy People 2010
HealthierUS and Healthy People 2010 are two important Federal initiatives aimed at improving the health of Americans through disease prevention and health promotion. Though conceived during di...
Baseline Survey for "Mi Primer Empleo" Training Program, Honduras
NORC has completed work on a baseline survey for an impact evaluation of the second round of the Mi Primer Empleo ("My First Job") Program in Honduras. Mi Primer Empleo is a ...
Basic Theories and Models of Religious Change
The Metanexus Institute, which advances research, education and outreach on the constructive engagement of science and religion, has made a grant under its Templeton Advanced Research Project to ...
Black Youth Culture Survey
The Black Youth Culture Survey is a key part of a larger effort --The Black Youth Project-- which is examining the attitudes, resources, and culture of African American youth ages 15...
Challenges and Opportunities for Rural Health Departments Seeking Accreditation
This project, for the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), investigated opportunities and challenges related to public heal...
Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey
The Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) collects information on the stock of U.S. commercial buildings, their energy-related building characteristics, and their energy consumptio...
Data Enclave Project
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Advanced Technology Program (ATP/NIST) provided funding to establish a data enclave at NORC. The enclave is a tool that all...
Data Research and Development Center
The DRDC examines the factors that are essential in scaling up promising educational models, programs and strategies. Funded by the Interagency Education Research Initiative (IERI), the Center work...
Declining Access to Hospital-based Obstetric Services in Rural Areas: Causes and Impact
This study, conducted for the Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) in the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), examines the declining availability of hospital-based obstetric servic...
Economic Growth, Social Inequality, and Environmental Change in Thailand and Cambodia
Funded by the National Science Foundation, this interdisciplinary study analyzes the dynamics of economies in Thailand and Cambodia experiencing dramatic social and environmental changes in the con...
Effective Strategies for Achieving HIPAA Compliance Among Rural Hospitals
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 contained provisions to protect the privacy and security of health information and to standardize electronic transmission of ...
Emergency Preparedness Planning: Modeling the Impact of Urban Evacuation on Surrounding and Rural Communities
For the Western New York Public Health Alliance Advanced Practice Center (APC), NORC is developing an evacuation modeling tool to predict likely evacua...
Employer Health Benefits Annual Survey
The Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research and Educational Trust Annual Employer Health Benefits Survey (Kaiser/HRET) is one of the most widely-cited surveys in the field of health policy. ...
Evaluation of NACCHO’s Prototype Operational Definition Metrics for Capacity Assessment
With funding from the National Association of City and County Health Officials (NACCHO), NORC is examining the use of NACCHO’s Prototype Operational Definition Metrics as a tool for loca...
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