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The Research, Evaluation and
Dissemination Unit within the Bureau of Quality Management and Evaluation
advances embedding data and statistics into the Division's critical function
of assessing the attainment of its goals and objectives. This new unit
provides technical support to planners, policy makers, and program
administrators by equipping them with a better understanding of the complex
interaction of the demand for and supply of behavioral health services under
the rubrics of a managed care system. Toward this end, the unit will carry out
the following functions:
- Dissemination of
information about statewide and nationwide programmatic
research/evaluation findings, best practices, survey research, and
performance measures;
- Development of
benchmark measures;
- Development of
epidemiological models with predictive demographic capability that may
be useful in establishing capitation rates as well as in planning for
strategies responsive to changes in the demand for behavioral health
services;
- Provision of technical
assistance to staff on research, clinical, and programmatic evaluation
tools and analytical methodologies; and
- Generation of focus
studies that will stimulate staff discussion on particular issues.
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