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In this paper, the authors examine policy and regulatory opportunities available to the U.S. federal government to enforce safety and security requirements on artificial intelligence systems supported by U.S. government funds.

Understanding Anti-Asian Hate Experiences and Service Barriers Among Chinese Older Adults in Los Angeles County, California

The authors conducted a systematic review of literature on interventions for gender dysphoria and related health problems in transgender and gender-expansive youth (age 25 or younger) to inform health care practice, policy, and research.

How does artificial intelligence training data interact with algorithms to create unfair outcomes for vulnerable communities? What might be done to minimize this issue?

In this RAND-USC Schaeffer OPTIC webinar, researcher Sean Grant discusses expert consensus on the effectiveness and implementability of state-level opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment policies, and references the OPTIC Policy Profiles.

This review offers an up-to-date summary of evidence for interventions related to gender dysphoria in transgender and gender-expansive (TGE) youth using a common approach to compiling, assessing, and synthesizing the available research across specific intervention categories—those recommended in the standards of care and proposed alternatives.

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping before an extended-format meeting of heads of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit member states in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, September 16, 2022 Photo by Sergey Bobylev/Pool via Reuters

Research Posted on rand.org Nov 27, 2024 Published in: Epidemiology (2024). DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001816

Research Posted on rand.org Nov 27, 2024 Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s11606-024-09218-3

At the end of October, the UK Health Secretary called on the entire nation to shape the government's plans to fix the NHS. Years ago, health improvement guru W. Edwards Deming argued that 94 percent of most possibilities for improvement can be found at the level of the system, not the individual. It's reasonable therefore to ask: what exactly is broken? It isn't the level of staff effort nor the intention to provide safe and appropriate healthcare free at the point of use. Rather, it is the systems within which the NHS operates that require serious attention.