| Assessing the Performance of Military Treatment Facilities |
Jan 2011 |
141 pages |
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Nancy Nicosia; Barbara O Wynn; John A Romley; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA CENTER FOR MILITARY HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH
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 | The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has increasingly confronted financial, managerial, and operational challenges in sustaining the TRICARE health benefit, which it provided to 9.2 million beneficiaries in fiscal year (FY) 2006. Medical costs, for example, are projected to increase to 12 percent of DoD s total budget as of FY 2015, from a level of 8 percent in FY 2007. In response to such challenges, the 2006 Quadrennial Defense ... |
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| The Economics of Air Force Medical Service Readiness |
Jan 2010 |
132 pages |
| Authors:
Johhn C Grasner; Daniel Blum; Kevin Brancato; James J Burks; Edward W Chan; Nancy Nicosia; Michael J Neumann; Hans V Ritschard; Benjamin F Mundell; RAND PROJECT AIR FORCE ARLINGTON VA
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| AFMS is facing a challenging environment. As key providers of medical support for operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, AFMS personnel operate three theater hospitals that provide health care to deployed forces from all four services. Much of this health care is provided to severely injured or wounded U.S. personnel, as well as to civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the same time, they have continued the mission of stabilizing ... |
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| The Economic Cost of Methamphetamine Use in the United States, 2005 |
Jan-2009 |
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| Authors:
Nancy Nicosia; Rosalie L Pacula; Beau Kilmer; Russell Lundberg; James Chiesa; RAND HEALTH SANTA MONICA CA
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 | This monograph presents the first national estimate of the economic cost of methamphetamine (meth) use in the United States. The analysis suggests that the economic cost of meth use in the United States reached $23.4 billion in 2005. Given the uncertainty in estimating the costs of meth use, the study provides a lower-bound estimate of $16.2 billion and an upper-bound estimate of $48.3 billion. The analysis undertaken to generate these ... |
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| Implementing Purchasing and Supply Chain Management: Best Practices in Market Research |
2006 |
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Nancy Nicosia; Nancy Y. Moore; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| The U.S. Air Force is adopting widely accepted commercial "best practices" to change the way it purchases goods and services, with the goals of reducing costs and improving performance to better support its missions. Specifically, the Air Force wants to increase aircraft availability (i.e., the number of Air Force aircraft that are maintained and ready to fly at any time) by 20 percent over the next five years while at ... |
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