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      Workshop on Disability in America: A New Look, Summary and Background Papers

      Based on a Workshop of the Committee on Disability in America: A New Look,National Academy of Sciences

      Workshop on Disability in America: A New Look - Summary and Background Papers (2006)

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      Medicare’s Quality Improvement Organization Program: Maximizing Potential

      Committee on Redesigning Health Insurance Performance Measures, Payment, and Performance Improvement Programs,National Academy of Sciences

      Focusing on performance improvement, this book considers the history, role, and effectiveness of the Quality Improvement Organization (Q) program and its potential to promote quality improvement within a changing health…

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      The Future of Drug Safety: Promoting and Protecting the Health of the Public

      Committee on the Assessment of the US Drug Safety System,National Academy of Sciences

      Noting that resources and therefore efforts to monitor medications’ risk benefit profiles taper off after approval, this book offers a set of recommendations to ensure that consideration of safety extends…

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      Assessment of the NIOSH Head-and-Face Anthropometric Survey of U.S. Respirator Users

      Committee for the Assessment of the NIOSH Head-and-Face Anthropometric Survey of U.S. Respirator Users,National Academy of Sciences

      Assessment of the NIOSH Head-and-Face Anthropometric Survey of U.S. Respirator Users

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      Long-Term Health Effects of Participation in Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense)

      William F. Page,Heather A. Young,Harriet M. Crawford,Advisory Panel for the Study of Long-Term Health Effects of Participation in Project SHAD,National Academy of Sciences

      This Institute of Medicine report examines the long-term health effects of participation in Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense), which involved some 5,800 US Navy and Marine personnel participating, often…

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      Rewarding Provider Performance: Aligning Incentives in Medicare

      Committee on Redesigning Health Insurance Performance Measures, Payment, and Performance Improvement Programs,National Academy of Sciences

      Addresses the topic of quality of health care in America. This book evaluates specific policy approaches within the context of improving operational framework of health care system. It offers options…

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      Amendments to the National Academies’ Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research

      Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee,National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,National Academies

      In 2005, the National Academies released the report Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research . In order to keep the guidelines up to date, the Human Embryonic Stem Cell…

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      Fostering Rapid Advances in Health Care: Learning from System Demonstrations

      Committee on Rapid Advance Demonstration Projects: Health Care Finance and Delivery Systems,National Academy of Sciences

      In response to a request from the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine convened a committee to identify possible demonstration projects that might…

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      Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2002

      Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides,National Academy of Sciences

      This book updates and evaluates the available scientific evidence regarding statistical associations between diseases and exposure to dioxin and other chemical compounds in herbicides used in Vietnam, focusing on new…

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      Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides,National Academy of Sciences

      Evaluates evidence regarding the statistical association between exposure to herbicides used in Vietnam and various adverse health outcomes suspected to be linked with such exposure. This book is suitable for…

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      Improving the Social Security Disability Decision Process

      Committee on Improving the Disability Decision Process: SSA's Listing of Impairments and Agency Access to Medical Expertise,National Academy of Sciences

      The Social Security Administration (SSA) provides Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits to disabled persons of less than full retirement age and to their dependents. SSA also provides Supplemental Security…

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      Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Diagnosis and Assessment

      Subcommittee on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder of the Committee on Gulf War and Health,Committee on Gulf War and Health: Physiologic, Psychologic, and Psychosocial Effects of Deployment-Related Stress,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

      Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Diagnosis and Assessment (2006)

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      Valuing Health for Regulatory Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

      Committee to Evaluate Measures of Health Benefits for Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation,National Academy of Sciences

      Provides useful recommendations for how to measure health-related quality-of-life impacts for diverse public health, safety, and environmental regulations. This work is useful for public decision makers, regulatory analysts, scholars, and…

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      Final Report of the National Academies’ Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee and 2010 Amendments to the National Academies’ Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research

      Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee,National Research Council

      In 2005, the National Academies released the book, Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, which offered a common set of ethical standards for a field that, due to the…

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      Quarantine Stations at Ports of Entry Protecting the Public’s Health

      Committee on Measures to Enhance the Effectiveness of the CDC Quarantine Station Expansion Plan for U.S. Ports of Entry,National Academy of Sciences

      Quarantine Stations at Ports of Entry Protecting the Public’s Health (2005)

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      Measuring What Matters: Allocation, Planning, and Quality Assessment for the Ryan White Care Act

      Committee on the Ryan White CARE Act: Data for Resource Allocation,Planning and Evaluation,National Academy of Sciences

      The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act, enacted in 1990, provides funding to cities, states, and other public and private entities to provide care and support services to…

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      Ethical Considerations for Research on Housing-Related Health Hazards Involving Children

      Committee on Ethical Issues in Housing-Related Health Hazard Research Involving Children, Youth, and Families,National Academy of Sciences

      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…

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      Ending the Tobacco Problem: A Blueprint for the Nation

      Committee on Reducing Tobacco Use: Strategies, Barriers, and Consequences,National Academy of Sciences

      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…

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      In the Nation’s Compelling Interest: Ensuring Diversity in the Health Care Workforce

      Committee on Institutional and Policy-Level Strategies for Increasing the Diversity of the U.S. Healthcare Workforce,National Academy of Sciences

      The United States is transforming into a racially and ethnically diverse nation in the world. This book considers the benefits of racial and ethnic diversity, and identifies institutional and policy-level…

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      New Findings on Poverty and Child Health and Nutrition: Summary of a Research Briefing

      Board on Children, Youth, and Families,National Research Council and Institute of Medicine,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

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      Giving Full Measure to Countermeasures: Addressing Problems in the DOD Program to Develop Medical Countermeasures Against Biological Warfare Agents

      Committee on Accelerating the Research, Development, and Acquisition of Medical Countermeasures Against Biological Warfare Agents,National Research Council

      Substantial efforts have been initiated to develop new drugs, vaccines, and other medical interventions against biological agents that could be used in bioterrorist attacks against civilian populations. This book identifies…

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      Facing the Reality of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in India: Challenges and Potential Solutions: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine, the Indian National Science Academy, and the Indian Council of Medical Research

      Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation

      An estimated 8.8 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) in 2010 and 1.4 million died from the disease. Although antibiotics to treat TB were developed in the 1950s and…

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      The Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory’s Thyroid Function Study: A Radiological Risk and Ethical Analysis

      Committee on the Evaluation of 1950s Air Force Human Health Testing in Alaska Using Radioactive Iodine-131,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Commission on Life Sciences,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      In 1956 and 1957, the US Air Force’s former Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory conducted a study of the role of the thyroid in human acclimatization to cold. This book evaluates the…

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