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Health and Medicine
Health and Medicine research at the National Academies focuses on issuesaffecting the health of the public, including population-based public health measures and the public health infrastructure. It also ensures that there is adequate attention to the science base underlying health and health care, as national and international needs evolve and change. The public and private policies and institutional relations that shape health sciences research and policy or that facilitate application of new knowledge are of particular concern.
Recent Releases
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Barriers to Integrating Crisis Standards of Care Principles into International Disaster Response Plans: Workshop Summary
When a nation or region prepares for public health emergencies such as a pandemic influenza, a large-scale earthquake, or any major disaster scenario in which the health system may be destroyed or stressed to its limits, it is important to ...
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Technical Evaluation of the NASA Model for Cancer Risk to Astronauts Due to Space Radiation
NASA's current missions to the International Space Station (ISS) and potential future exploration missions involving extended stays by astronauts on the lunar surface, as well as the possibility of near- Earth object (NEO) or Mars missions, present challenges in protecting ...
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Sex-Specific Reporting of Scientific Research: A Workshop Summary
The number of women participating in clinical trials has increased during the last two decades, but women are still underrepresented in clinical trials in general. Some of the overall increase can be attributed to the greater number of women-only trials ...
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Allied Health Workforce and Services: Workshop Summary
The demand for health care is growing as the nation ages and seeks to provide coverage for the millions of Americans who lack health insurance. At the same time, escalating costs have led to a variety of initiatives to make ...
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Information Sharing and Collaboration: Applications to Integrated Biosurveillance: Workshop Summary
After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and subsequent anthrax mailings, the U.S. government prioritized a biosurveillance strategy aimed at detecting, monitoring, and characterizing national security health threats in human and animal populations, food, water, agriculture, and the environment. However, ...
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The Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities: A Workshop Report
Early childhood care and education (ECCE) settings offer an opportunity to provide children with a solid beginning in all areas of their development. The quality and efficacy of these settings depend largely on the individuals within the ECCE workforce. Policy ...
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Strategies and Priorities for Information Technology at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the agency in the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for providing health coverage for seniors and people with disabilities, for limited-income individuals and families, and for children--totaling almost 100 ...
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Improving Health Literacy Within a State: Workshop Summary
Health literacy is the degree to which individuals can obtain, process, and understand the basic health information and services they need to make appropriate health decisions. According to Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion (IOM, 2004), nearly half of ...
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Measuring Food Insecurity and Assessing the Sustainability of Global Food Systems: Report of a Workshop
There are few areas of human endeavor in which the challenge of sustainability is clearer than in food and agriculture. Farmers and animal keepers must use natural resources--the physical environment of soil, water, and the sun--in ways that generate a ...
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Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care
IOM's 1999 landmark study To Err is Human estimated that between 44,000 and 98,000 lives are lost every year due to medical errors. This call to action has led to a number of efforts to reduce errors and provide safe ...
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