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New Ways of Thinking About Today's Challenges
Westat experts offer actionable ideas and solutions to take on our client's pressing problems.
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Perspective
Child Seat Inspection Stations: Why Are They Underused?June 2019
Child safety seats save lives; their use in passenger cars has been shown to reduce fatal injury by 71% for infants and by 54% for…
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Perspective
Conducting National Surveys in the Age of COVID-19October 2020
Conducting data collection for national surveys during a crisis is not unusual. Hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, civil unrest, and other emergency situations have posed challenges to…
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Perspective
Continuing the ConversationMarch 2018
Once the fourth leading cause of death worldwide, HIV infection is now a manageable condition. But as many as 50,000 new HIV infections occur each…
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Young Children’s Consumption of 100% Fruit Juice by Racial-Ethnic Characteristics of Their Mothers
March 28, 2023
Congress authorized the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) as a pilot program in 1972 and made WIC permanent in 1974.…
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National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day
October 4, 2022
Over the past 17 years, the proportion of people living with HIV (PLWH) over the age of 50 has more than doubled—from 29 percent in…
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Lessons Learned from HIV Messaging Can Help with COVID-19 Prevention Efforts
December 7, 2021
Since declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020,1 over 759,000 people in the U.S. have died from COVID- 192 and thousands…
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Are We There Yet?
July 1, 2021
Introduction Annual statewide assessments are a cornerstone of federal accountability systems and have been for the last 20 years. Love them or hate them, statewide…
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Innovative Small Area Modeling With Multivariate Estimation
January 5, 2021
Introduction Small area estimation (SAE) includes a variety of statistical techniques to predict survey outcomes typically for small geographic areas. Sampling information and data from…
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How Much Would Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries Work Without the Cash Cliff?
August 1, 2019
INTRODUCTION In recent years there has been growing concern that the number of individuals on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) has been increasing rapidly, and…
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