The following policy brief ‘Scaling up Nutrition: A Framework for Action’ is not directly related to the papers that make up the bulk of this issue covering a history of five decades of research by the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), although many of its findings are applicable to it. The policy brief includes a call for scaling up high impact interventions that ad...

Semantic interoperability is one of the priority themes of the ARGOS Trans-Atlantic Observatory. This topic represents a globally recognised challenge that must be addressed if electronic health records are to be shared among heterogeneous systems, and the information in them exploited to the maximum benefit of patients, professionals, health services, research, and industry. Progress in this m...

The Role of Learning Progressions in Standards-Based Education Reform written by Frederic A. Mosher, summarizes findings from two reports examining the concepts of learning progressions and learning trajectories as they are being applied in science and mathematics education. This policy brief reviews conclusions from the two extensive reports and discusses the implications of their findings for...

This Policy Brief focuses on the key issues confronting state rural health directors. A companion Policy Brief will discuss the process state rural health directors use to obtain and process policy research. As part of this work, Walsh Center researchers attended a number of regional meetings of state rural health directors. They held forums at these meetings and engaged the state directors in ...

This policy brief provides findings about Medicare beneficiary enrollment in prescription drug plans (PDPs) in rural and urban areas across the United States, updating early findings from an analysis of plans presented in a previous RUPRI Center policy brief (PB2006-8).

In this policy brief, we estimate and document the national magnitude of charges associated with hospitalizations due to ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) in rural hospitals. The brief also reports this type of charge by hospital size. This research will inform policy makers about the magnitude of rural preventable hospitalizations and the associated potential savings in hospital res...