Health Care for Veterans: Suicide Prevention (open access)

Health Care for Veterans: Suicide Prevention

This report focuses on suicide prevention activities of the Veterans Health Administration within the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Date: March 19, 2015
Creator: Bagalman, Erin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Care for Veterans: Traumatic Brain Injury (open access)

Health Care for Veterans: Traumatic Brain Injury

This report focuses on current efforts of the VA's Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to understand, identify, and treat Traumatic brain injury (TBI) among veterans.
Date: March 9, 2015
Creator: Bagalman, Erin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
SAMHSA FY2016 Budget Request and Funding History: A Fact Sheet (open access)

SAMHSA FY2016 Budget Request and Funding History: A Fact Sheet

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Date: April 2, 2015
Creator: Bagalman, Erin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prevalence of Mental Illness in the United States: Data Sources and Estimates (open access)

Prevalence of Mental Illness in the United States: Data Sources and Estimates

This report briefly describes the methodology and selected findings of three large federally funded surveys that provide national prevalence estimates of diagnosable mental illness: the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R), the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A), and the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). This report presents prevalence estimates of any mental illness and serious mental illness based on each survey and ends with a brief discussion of how these prevalence estimates might inform policy discussions.
Date: March 9, 2015
Creator: Bagalman, Erin & Napili, Angela
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessment of Coverage in the Arrest-Related Deaths Program (open access)

Assessment of Coverage in the Arrest-Related Deaths Program

This technical report discusses the analysis of data on deaths that occurred in the process of arrest.
Date: October 2015
Creator: Banks, Duren; Couzens, Lance & Planty, Michael
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arrest-Related Deaths Program Assessment: Technical Report (open access)

Arrest-Related Deaths Program Assessment: Technical Report

This is a report that looks at the census of all deaths that occur during the process of arrest in the United States.
Date: March 2015
Creator: Banks, Duren; Couzens, Lance; Blanton, Caroline & Cribb, Devon
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessment of Short-term Preserved Milt for Mass Production of Striped Bass Morone saxatilis Fry (open access)

Assessment of Short-term Preserved Milt for Mass Production of Striped Bass Morone saxatilis Fry

A study of two experiments conducting the viability of extended milt for mass production of Striped Bass fry.
Date: 2015
Creator: Barkoh, Aaron; Schlechte, Warren; Kurten, Gerald; Hamby, Steven & Glenewinkel, Hugh
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Many Aspects of the Affordable Care Act Would Not Be Affected by King v. Burwell (open access)

Many Aspects of the Affordable Care Act Would Not Be Affected by King v. Burwell

This report briefly discusses the possible effects of the King v. Burwell case on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) law. The case examines whether or not the ACA allows the IRS to make premium tax credits available to residents of states that decline to establish health insurance exchanges.
Date: March 3, 2015
Creator: Barry, Matthew B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Measles: Background and Federal Role in Vaccine Policy (open access)

The Measles: Background and Federal Role in Vaccine Policy

This report presents basic information about measles, its history in the United States, available treatments to prevent individuals from contracting measles, and the federal role in combating measles--from funding, to research, to the authority of the federal government in requiring mandatory childhood vaccinations.
Date: February 9, 2015
Creator: Barry, Matthew B. & Cole, Jared P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Paid Family Leave, Fathers' Leave-Taking, and Leave-Sharing in Dual-Earner Households' (open access)

Paid Family Leave, Fathers' Leave-Taking, and Leave-Sharing in Dual-Earner Households'

A report which provides quasi-experimental evidence on the impact of paid leave legislation on fathers' leave taking, as well as on the division of leave between mothers and fathers in dual-earner households.
Date: November 2015
Creator: Bartel, Ann; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Ruhm, Christopher; Stearns, Jenna & Waldfogel, Jane
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
State Children’s Health Insurance Program: An Overview (open access)

State Children’s Health Insurance Program: An Overview

This report describes the basic elements of CHIP, focusing on how the program is designed, who is eligible, what services are covered, how enrollees share in the cost of care, and how the program is financed. The report ends with a brief discussion of the future of CHIP.
Date: March 20, 2015
Creator: Baumrucker, Evelyne P. & Mitchell, Alison
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Colombian Peace Talks Breakthrough: A Possible End- Game? (open access)

Colombian Peace Talks Breakthrough: A Possible End- Game?

This report briefly discusses the recent breakthrough reached in talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) just a day after Pope Francis left Cuba, following more than 40 rounds of discussions held in Havana since November 2012.
Date: October 13, 2015
Creator: Beittel, June S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mexico: Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking Organizations (open access)

Mexico: Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking Organizations

This report provides background on drug trafficking and organized crime inside Mexico: it identifies the major DTOs, and it examines how the organized crime "landscape" has been significantly altered by fragmentation.
Date: July 22, 2015
Creator: Beittel, June S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Peace Talks in Colombia (open access)

Peace Talks in Colombia

This report provides background on Colombia's armed conflict and describes its key players. It briefly analyzes prior negotiations with the FARC and the lessons learned from those efforts that apply to the current talks. It examines what has transpired in the talks during more than two years of closed door sessions. The report also examines some of the constraints that could limit the success of the peace talks and looks at the prospects for the current negotiations.
Date: February 6, 2015
Creator: Beittel, June S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation Following "El Chapo" Guzmán's Escape (open access)

U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation Following "El Chapo" Guzmán's Escape

This report discusses the escape of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán on July 11, 2015, from a maximum security federal prison near Mexico City.
Date: July 21, 2015
Creator: Beittel, June S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation Following "El Chapo" Guzmán's Escape (open access)

U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation Following "El Chapo" Guzmán's Escape

This report discusses U.S.-Mexican security cooperation in the wake of the escape of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán on July 11, 2015, from a maximum security federal prison near Mexico City.
Date: October 20, 2015
Creator: Beittel, June S. & Seelke, Clare Ribando
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Spending and the Budget Control Act Limits (open access)

Defense Spending and the Budget Control Act Limits

This report discusses the Budget Control Act, which sets limits on defense spending between fiscal years 2012 and 2021 and possible measures to avoid a sequester. The current debate in Congress has centered on whether to adjust the BCA defense caps upward; move base budget spending to accounts designated for Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) that are not subject to spending limits; reduce the defense spending in the Administration's request to comply with BCA revised caps; or use some combination of these approaches.
Date: July 22, 2015
Creator: Belasco, Amy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Spending and the Budget Control Act Limits (open access)

Defense Spending and the Budget Control Act Limits

This report discusses the Budget Control Act, which sets limits on defense spending between FY2012 and FY2021. The current debate in Congress has centered on whether to adjust the BCA defense caps upward; move base budget spending to accounts designated for Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) that are not subject to spending limits; reduce the defense spending in the Administration's request to comply with BCA revised caps; or use some combination of these approaches, all in order to avoid a sequester.
Date: May 19, 2015
Creator: Belasco, Amy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Spending and the Budget Control Act Limits (open access)

Defense Spending and the Budget Control Act Limits

This report discusses the Budget Control Act, which sets limits on defense spending between FY2012 and FY2021. The current debate in Congress has centered on whether to adjust the BCA defense caps upward; move base budget spending to accounts designated for Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) that are not subject to spending limits; reduce the defense spending in the Administration's request to comply with BCA revised caps; or use some combination of these approaches, all in order to avoid a sequester.
Date: June 3, 2015
Creator: Belasco, Amy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
War Funding and the Budget Control Act: In Brief (open access)

War Funding and the Budget Control Act: In Brief

This report provides a brief overview of the war funding and the budget control act.
Date: July 22, 2015
Creator: Belasco, Amy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
War Funding and the Budget Control Act: In Brief (open access)

War Funding and the Budget Control Act: In Brief

This report discusses the FY2016 debate over defense spending levels. Congress is considering how to stay within the spending limits, or caps, set by the Budget Control Act (BCA). Under the BCA, all defense spending for the defense base budget--excluding amounts designated for "Overseas Contingency Operations" (OCO) or emergencies--is subject to annual BCA caps.
Date: June 11, 2015
Creator: Belasco, Amy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crisis in Greece: Political Implications (open access)

Crisis in Greece: Political Implications

This report discusses political and economic conditions in Greece. What began as a debt crisis in Greece in late 2009 has evolved into a political crisis that many analysts believe could represent the most significant setback in over 60 years of European integration.
Date: July 7, 2015
Creator: Belkin, Paul
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crisis in Greece: Political Implications (open access)

Crisis in Greece: Political Implications

This report briefly discusses the political crisis resulting from what began as a debt crisis in Greece in late 2009. Many analysts believe that this political crisis could represent the most significant setback in over 60 years of European integration.
Date: July 7, 2015
Creator: Belkin, Paul
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Election in Greece (open access)

Election in Greece

This report discusses issues leading up to Greece's snap legislative election on September 20, only eight months after the country's last election. Greece continues to struggle with the negative repercussions of a sovereign debt and financial crisis that began in 2009.
Date: September 14, 2015
Creator: Belkin, Paul
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library