Bøger af Institute of Medicine

"Institute of Medicine of the National Academies Press"--T.p.

Military personnel in the US have been exposed to depleted uranium as the result of friendly fire incidents, cleanup and salvage operations, and proximity to burning depleted uranium-containing tanks and ammunition. This book contains recommendations aimed at improving various epidemiologic studies that deal with potential DU exposure.

Recognizing that health care providers play an important role in fostering healthy behaviors among adolescents, this work examines the health status of adolescents and reviews the separate and uncoordinated programs and services delivered in multiple public and private health care settings.

In 2003 Congress passed the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act, which established a 5-year, $15 billion initiative to help countries around the world respond to their AIDS epidemics. This book recommends that the program should focuses on the long-term strategic planning and capacity building.

Public health efforts have resulted in tremendous improvements in the health of individuals and communities. This work focuses on the critical roles that physicians play in maintaining and strengthening the public health system, and identifies what these physicians need to know to engage in effective public health actions.

After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have been thought to play a key role in the lives of adolescents. This book offers recommendations for policy, practice, and research to ensure that programs are well designed to meet young people's developmental needs.

The nation has made tremendous progress in reducing tobacco. This book generates a blueprint for the nation in the struggle to reduce tobacco use. It reviews prevention and treatment interventions and considers a set of tobacco control policies for adoption by federal and state governments.

Preventing HIV Infection among Injecting Drug Users in High Risk Countries:

The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Lectures 2005

Summarizes the status of health effects in veterans deployed to the Persian Gulf irrespective of exposure information. This book reviews, evaluates, and summarizes both peer-reviewed scientific and medical literature addressing the health status of Gulf War veterans.

Evaluating the HRSA Traumatic Brain Injury Program (2006)

Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment in Rural America: Workshop Summary (2006)

Aimed at improving health care quality, this book offers a comprehensive review of available measures and introduces a framework to examine these measures against the six aims of the health care system: health care should be safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable.

Explores the ethical issues posed when conducting research designed to identify, understand, or ameliorate housing-related health hazards among children. Such research involves children as subjects and is conducted in the home and in communities.

Based on a committee report which concluded that the food packages provided by the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children should be changed. This book provides details on the proposed food packages, summarizes how these packages differ from existing packages, and discusses the rationale for the proposed packages.

Infectious diseases have existed longer than us, as long as us, or are relatively newer than us. This title examines knowledge and approaches to learning about the bacterial inhabitants of the human gut, the known host-microbe system, and findings from studies of microbial communities associated with other mammals, fish, plants, soil, and insects.

Examines the senior S&T appointments to federal government positions and accompanies the list of the urgent S&T presidential appointments. This report covers not only presidential appointments to top S&T leadership positions but also the appointment of scientists, engineers, and health professionals to serve on federal advisory committees.

Examines the standard of care for HIV patients and assesses the extent the system used for financing and delivering care allows individuals with HIV to receive it. This book recommends an expanded program for the treatment of individuals. This program would provide access and benefits with a focus on care and access to antiretroviral therapy.

The US is experiencing a change in its demographic structure known as population aging. This book aims to provide an image of what is known about the health and safety needs of the older workers and the research needed to encourage social polices that guarantee older workers a meaningful share of the nation's work opportunities.

Being uninsured is associated with a range of adverse health, social, and economic consequences for individuals and families. This report is the final report in a series by the Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance, intended to synthesize what is known about these consequences and communicate the urgency of the issue to the public.

Dioxin and dioxin-like compounds are found throughout the environment, in soil, water, and air. This book recommends policy options to reduce exposure to these contaminants while considering how these options could reduce health risks and affect nutrition, particularly in sensitive and highly exposed groups, if dietary changes are suggested.