Resuscitation Fellowships Can Close the Gap

Can Academic Standards Boost Literacy and Close the Achievement Gap?

About the Authors: Ron Haskins is a senior editor of The Future of Children, a senior fellow in Economic Studies and co-director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution, and a senior consultant at the Annie E. Casey Foundation; Richard Murnane is the Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; Isabel Sawhill is a senior fe...

Can Teams Help to Close the Gender Competition Gap

Previous research finds that significant gender differences occur when experimental subjects choose whether or not to enter a competition, even when performance levels are similar across genders. In this paper, we investigate the potential for competing in teams to reduce these differences. We first replicate earlier findings that men are more likely to compete than women when the competitions ...

Can big data help us close an epilepsy care gap?

Epilepsy has been termed an “ambulatory care sensitive condition,” meaning that high-quality outpatient epilepsy care can reduce unnecessary emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations. Using this framework, high ED use is a marker of poor disease control or limited access to care. Do all people with epilepsy (PWE) with poorly controlled disease or limited access frequent the ED? Are ...

Bridging the mission-business gap in health care. How can Catholic health ministries close the gap between business and mission?

eaders of Catholic health ministries throughout the United States face the extraordinary challenge of running faith-based, mission-oriented health care organizations in the midst of some of the most challenging operational and financial environments of our times. The delivery of health care in the United States is undergoing a profound transformation that calls all of us engaged in this healing...

Measles immunisation: time to close the gap.