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Appendix: Institute of Medicine/National Research Council Reports Relevant to Adolescence
Appendix: Institute of Medicine/National Research Council Reports Relevant to Adolescence
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Adolescent Decision Making: Implications for Prevention Programs (1999) summarizes the presentations and discussions of a workshop examining the current knowledge base regarding adolescent decision making, and the implications of this research with respect to their involvement in risk behaviors and the design of prevention interventions.
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provides an overview of key issues in the organization, delivery, and financing of health care for children, including evaluating empirical evidence about the relationship between health insurance and access to care and identifying key trends in insurance coverage and the delivery of care for uninsured children. Assessing the Social and Behavioral Science Base for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Intervention (1995)
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identifies significant aspects of social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development during the early elementary years, reviews the status of relevant basic research, highlights theoretical and methodological issues, and makes recommendations for future research. Dispelling the Myths AIDout Addiction: Strategies to Increase UndLerstandLing and Strengthen Research (1997)
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The Hidden EpidLemic: Confronting Sexually Transmitted Diseases (1997) examines the epidemiological dimensions of STDs in the United States and the factors that contribute to the epidemic; assesses the effectiveness of current public health strategies and programs to prevent and control STDs; and provides direction for future public health programs, policy, and research in STD prevention and control.
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In Her Lifetime: Female Morbidity and Mortality in SulD-Saharan Africa (1996) provides a solid documentary base that can be used to develop an agenda to guide research and health policy formulation on female healthboth for Sub-Saharan Africa and for other regions of the developing world.
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summarizes a workshop at which researchers presented recent findings in the areas of poverty, child health, and nutrition, highlighting key findings relevant to the contemporary debate about welfare and health care policy for the poor, and examining priorities for future research that will yield insights into the effects of welfare reform. The report also features a discussion of state and local officials' data and research needs, and examples of new child health interventions and projects monitoring the effects of welfare reform.
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reviews advances in understanding of how to reduce risk factors for mental disorders in the context of current research, and provides a targeted definition of prevention and a conceptual framework that emphasizes risk reduction. The report includes a focused research agenda with recommendations on how to develop effective intervention programs, create a cadre of prevention researchers, and improve coordination among government agencies and private foundations.
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, the report of an IOM committee charged with studying K-12 comprehensive school health programs, provides a framework for determining desirable and feasible health outcomes of such programs, examines the relationship between health and education outcomes, considers factors necessary to optimize these outcomes, appraises data on effectiveness, and recommends ways to implement effective school-based health programs. Sleeping Pills, Insomnia, and Medical Practice (1979)
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Taking Action to Reduce Tobacco Use (1998) addresses tobacco control in terms of price increases, federal regulation, state and local tobacco control programs, performance monitoring, cessation programs, research, and international health impacts.
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Violence in Families: Assessing Prevention and Treatment Programs (1998) provides a comprehensive review of the successes and failures of family violence interventions; offers recommendations to guide services, programs, policy, and research; and outlines new strategies for researcher-practitioner collaboration that can improve the design and evaluation of prevention and treatment services; the report also features an analysis of 114 evaluation studies on the outcomes of different kinds of programs and services.
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~nities (1996) reports on a workshop that focused on what is known about environmental influences that interact with youth characteristics, family factors, and peer influences to foster or inhibit successful outcomes for adolescents; the report describes processes for community and family interactions during periods of adolescent development, reviews the literature on social settings and youth development, and touches on selected commu .
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