Examines the complex medical, social, ethical, financial, and scientific problems arising from the AIDS epidemic. This book also offers several public policy and research recommendations for an appropriate national response…

The United States is formally represented around the world by approximately 14,000 Foreign Service officers and other personnel in the U.S. Department of State. Roughly one-third of them are required…

Active remote sensing is the principal tool used to study and to predict short- and long-term changes in the environment of Earth - the atmosphere, the oceans and the land…

Presents a framework for evaluating patient care applications of telemedicine. This book identifies managerial, technical, policy, legal, and human factors that must be taken into account in evaluating a telemedicine…

In a world where advanced knowledge is widespread and low-cost labor is available, US advantages in the marketplace and in science and technology have begun to erode. This book makes…

Healthy People is the nation's agenda for health promotion and disease prevention. The concept, first established in 1979 in a report prepared by the Office of the Surgeon General, has…

The conditions and characteristics of correctional facilities - overcrowded with rapid population turnover, often in old and poorly ventilated structures, a spatially concentrated pattern of releases and admissions in low-income…

Immunization is essential to disease prevention efforts in public health, but the U.S. health care system faces financial challenges that are affecting the delivery of immunization services. An earlier report…