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New Tools to Explore the Role of Physician Group Practices in U.S. Health Care Systems

A new, publicly available data file on physician group practices has been released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Comparative Health System Performance Initiative.




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Mathematica at Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM): Rising to the Challenge of Engaging Diverse Perspectives

From November 7 to 9, APPAM will host its annual Fall Research Conference in Denver, Colorado. As a proud partner of APPAM since its inception, Mathematica will participate in a number of conference activities.




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Mathematica Partners with the Food and Nutrition Service and Boston Children’s Hospital at the APHA Annual Meeting and Expo

Mathematica researchers partnered with key clients and contributed to a number of projects that will be presented at the American Public Health Association’s Annual Meeting and Expo in Philadelphia from November 2 to 6.




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ACF Seeks Comments on Performance Measures Used in a Mathematica-Conducted Study

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) seeks comments on performance measures used for the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) grant program.




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Mathematica Supports the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’s State Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program Transformation and Innovation Milestones

Mathematica will showcase state Medicaid services and support for CMS projects to modernize data analytics for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program at the National Association of Medicaid Directors fall conference.




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Mathematica Team Named Finalist in Stage 1 of CMS Artificial Intelligence Health Outcomes Challenge

Mathematica is partnering with The Health Collaborative, the Patient Advocate Foundation, and MediaAgility on a solution leveraging artificial intelligence and other industry-leading methods to achieve a number of goals to drive primary care transformation.




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LaVerne H. Council Appointed to Mathematica’s Board of Directors

Mathematica announced the appointment of LaVerne H. Council to serve as a member of the organization’s Board of Directors.




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Mathematica Marks National Rural Health Day: Pennsylvania Rural Health Model Drives Payment Innovation

The National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health sets aside the third Thursday of every November—this year, it’s November 21—to celebrate National Rural Health Day.




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New Toolkit Highlights How Medicare Accountable Care Organizations Engage Beneficiaries

Under a contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Mathematica’s health experts worked with 24 Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Seamless Care Organizations participating in the Shared Savings Program, Next Generation ACO Model, and the Comprehensive ESRD Care Model to identify the strategies that ACOs use to engage beneficiaries in their care.




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Howard University and Mathematica to Host Computational Social Science Summer Institute

Mathematica and Howard University have partnered to host the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which will give social and data scientists opportunities to explore how they can use real-world data to address ethics and equity in artificial intelligence.




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Mathematica Named a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality

Mathematica received a score of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s recently released 2020 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), earning the designation as a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality.




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The semiotics of heritage tourism / Emma Waterton and Steve Watson

Waterton, Emma




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Tourism and the power of otherness : seductions of difference / edited by David Picard and Michael A. Di Giovine




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Working (out) leisure : a critical interpretation of post-work culture / Melinda Young

Young, Melinda




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Revenue management for hospitality and tourism / [edited by] Patrick Legohérel, Elisabeth Poutier and Alan Fyall




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The ecotourism-extraction nexus : political economies and rural realities of (un)comfortable bedfellows / edited by Bram Büscher and Veronica Davidov




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Tourism marketing : quality and service management perspectives / [edited by] Eric Laws




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The leadership imperative : technology adoption and strategic management in travel firms in Jamaica / by Andrew Spencer

Spencer, Andrew (Lecturer in tourism management), author




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Economy hotels in China : a glocalised innovative hospitality sector / Songshan (Sam) Huang and Xuhua (Michael) Sun

Huang, Songshan




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A landscape of travel : the work of tourism in rural ethnic China / Jenny Chio

Chio, Jenny, author




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The ice and the inland : Mawson, Flynn, and the myth of the frontier / Brigid Hains

Hains, Brigid, 1969-




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Foodies and food tourism / text by Donald Getz, Richard N.S. Robinson, Tommy D. Andersson and Sanja Vujicic

Getz, Donald, 1949- author




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Understanding and governing sustainable tourism mobility : psychological and behavioural approaches / edited by Scott A. Cohen, James E.S. Higham, Paul Peeters and Stefan Gössling




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Shipwrecks of the Ningaloo Reef : maritime archaeological projects from 1978-2009 / Jeremy Green (editor) ; with contributions by Ross Anderson ... [et al.]




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Green growth and travelism : concept, policy and practice for sustainable tourism / edited by Terry DeLacy, Min Jiang, Geoffrey Lipman and Shaun Vorster




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Planning for ethnic tourism / Li Yang and Geoffrey Wall

Yang, Li, author




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Tourism in Latin America : cases of success / Alexandre Panosso Netto, Luiz Gonzaga, Godoi Trigo, editors




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The Wiley Blackwell companion to tourism / edited by Alan A. Lew, C. Michael Hall, and Allan M. Williams




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Tourism destination development : turns and tactics / edited by Arvid Viken and Brynhild Granås




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Tourism imaginaries : anthropological approaches / edited by Noel B. Salazar and Nelson H. H. Graburn




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Tourism in Africa : harnessing tourism for growth and improved livelihoods / Iain Christie, Eneida Fernandes, Hannah Messerli, and Louise Twining-Ward

Christie, Iain T., author




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Creating experience value in tourism / edited by Nina K. Prebensen, University of Tromsø, Norway, Joseph S. Chen, Indiana University at Bloomington and Muzaffer Uysal, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University




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Queer postcolonial narratives and the ethics of witnessing / Donna McCormack

McCormack, Donna




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Tourism and cricket : travels to the boundary / edited by Tom Baum and Richard Butler




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Explorer travellers and adventure tourism / Jennifer Laing and Warwick Frost

Laing, Jennifer, 1967- author




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Tourism and development : concepts and issues / edited by Richard Sharpley and David J. Telfer




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Stereopticon : entry to a life of travel and tourism research / by Valene L. Smith

Smith, Valene L




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Tourism and trails : cultural, ecological and management issues / Dallen J. Timothy and Stephen W. Boyd

Timothy, Dallen J




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Century of the leisured masses : entertainment and the transformation of twentieth-century America / David George Surdam ; preface by Ken McCormick

Surdam, David G. (David George)




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Ethnic and minority cultures as tourist attractions / edited by Anya Diekmann and Melanie Kay Smith




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Institutional arrangements for conservation, development and tourism in Eastern and Southern Africa : a dynamic perspective / René van der Duim, Machiel Lamers, Jakomijn van Wijk, editors




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Cultural tourism in a digital era : first International Conference IACuDiT, Athens, 2014 / Vicky Katsoni, editor

International Conference on Cultural and Digital Tourism (1st : 2014 : Athens, Greece)




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The forgotten district [videorecording] / a documentary by Oliver Dickinson




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The practice of sustainable tourism : resolving the paradox / edited by Michael Hughes, David Weaver and Christof Pforr




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Events and sustainability / Kirsten Holmes, Michael Hughes, Judith Mair and Jack Carlsen

Holmes, Kirsten, author




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Contemporary destination governance : a case study approach / editors, Harald Pechlaner, Pietro Beritelli, Sabine Pichler, Mike Peters, Noel Scott




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Knowledge networks and tourism / edited by Michelle T. McLeod and Roger Vaughan




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Archipelago tourism : policies and practices / edited by Godfrey Baldacchino




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Tourism and water / Stefan Gössling, C. Michael Hall and Daniel Scott

Gössling, Stefan




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Ecotourism : practices, benefits and environmental impacts / Shannon C. Brophy, editor