Growing interest in the use of administrative data to answer questions around program
implementation and effectiveness has led to greater discussion of how government agencies can …

We analyze Illinois families facing multiple barriers and their interactions with public-sector
services. Using administrative data from five state agencies to identify families’ receipt of child …

Background The Nurse–Family Partnership (NFP) is a home visiting program serving first-time,
low-income mothers, with an area of focus on healthy early childhood development. …

High-quality, stable child care and early education (CCEE) can have lasting, positive impacts
on children. However, the challenges of recruiting, strengthening, and retaining the CCEE …

Some conceptual frameworks have been created to guide such data-driven practices and to
help build analytic capacity, but they are often theoretical in nature. In general, these …

… process and challenges (Wiegand & Goerge, 2019c). … (Wiegand & Goerge, 2019b).
Ultimately, we identified a series of defining considerations for this record linkage use case (Wiegand …

Through rapid genetic adaptation and natural selection, the Plasmodium falciparum parasite—the
deadliest of those that cause malaria—is able to develop resistance to antimalarial …

BACKGROUND: The search for ideal prostheses for body wall repair continues. Synthetic
materials such as polypropylene mesh (PPM) are associated with healing complications. A …

The Longitudinal Epidemiologic Study to Gain Insight into HIV/AIDS in Children and Youth (LEGACY)
study is a prospective, multisite, longitudinal cohort of US HIV-infected youth. This …

Because anemia is one of the markers of morbidity associated with schistosomiasis, it has
been proposed as a potential measure to evaluate the impact of control programs. However, …