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      Summarizing Population Health: Directions for the Development and Application of Population Metrics

      Committee on Summary Measures of Population Health,Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

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      Metrics That Matter for Population Health Action: Workshop Summary

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on Population Health Improvement

      In times of rapid change and constrained resources, measures that are important, focused, and reliable are vital. However there is an overabundance of measures available for evaluating various aspects of…

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      Health Literacy and Consumer-Facing Technology: Workshop Summary

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on Health Literacy

      The proliferation of consumer-facing technology and personal health information technology has grown steadily over the past decade, and has certainly exploded over the past several years. Many people have embraced…

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      How Modeling Can Inform Strategies to Improve Population Health: Workshop Summary

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on Population Health Improvement

      In April 2015, the Institute of Medicine convened a workshop to explore the potential uses of simulation and other types of modeling for the purpose of selecting and refining potential…

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      Health Literacy: Past, Present, and Future: Workshop Summary

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on Health Literacy

      In 2004, the Institute of Medicine released Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion, a report on the then-underappreciated challenge of enabling patients to comprehend their condition and treatment, to…

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      Applying a Health Lens to Business Practices, Policies, and Investments: Workshop Summary

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on Population Health Improvement

      In 2013 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Population Health Improvement organized a workshop to discuss opportunities to foster a health in all policies approach in non-health sectors such…

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      Measuring the Health of Persian Gulf Veterans: Workshop Summary

      Institute of Medicine,Committee on Measuring the Health of Persian Gulf Veterans,National Academy of Sciences

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      Assessing Health Outcomes Among Veterans of Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense)

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on the Health of Select Populations,Committee on Shipboard Hazard and Defense II (SHAD II)

      Between 1963 and 1969, the U.S. military carried out a series of tests, termed Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense), to evaluate the vulnerabilities of U.S. Navy ships to chemical…

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      Improving the Health of Women in the United States: Workshop Summary

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population

      The environment for women’s health has changed over the last 25 years. Increased use of automobiles can lead to health risks from lack of physical activity. There has also been…

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      Sharing Research Data to Improve Public Health in Africa: A Workshop Summary

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population

      Sharing research data on public health issues can promote expanded scientific inquiry and has the potential to advance improvements in public health. Although sharing data is the norm in some…

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      Bringing Public Health into Urban Revitalization: Workshop Summary

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine

      A particularly valuable opportunity to improve public health arises when an urban area is being redesigned and rebuilt following some type of serious disruption, whether it is caused by a…

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      Asbestos: Selected Cancers

      Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects,National Academy of Sciences

      The Senate Committee on the Judiciary directed the Institute of Medicine to assemble the Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects. This book presents the committee’s comprehensive distillation of the scientific…

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      Pharmacokinetics and Drug Interactions in the Elderly and Special Issues in Elderly African-American Populations: Workshop Summary

      Committee on Pharmacokinetics and Drug Interaction in the Elderly,Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

      Reports in the popular press about the increasing longevity of Americans and the aging of the baby boom generation are constant reminders that the American population is becoming older. Consequently…

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      Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2014

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on the Health of Select Populations,Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Tenth Biennial Update)

      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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      Accounting for Social Risk Factors in Medicare Payment: Identifying Social Risk Factors

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Accounting for Socioeconomic Status in Medicare Payment Programs

      Recent health care payment reforms aim to improve the alignment of Medicare payment strategies with goals to improve the quality of care provided, patient experiences with health care, and health…

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      Disposition of the Air Force Health Study

      Committee on the Disposition of the Air Force Health Study,National Academy of Sciences

      The Vietnam War was fought in a jungle environment that provided cover to the enemy and made battlefield observations difficult, so military strategists used herbicides to remove foliage along key…

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      Estimating the Contributions of Lifestyle-Related Factors to Preventable Death: A Workshop Summary

      Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Planning Committee on Estimating the Contributions of Lifestyle-Related Factors to Preventable Death,National Academy of Sciences

      Presents the summary of a workshop held by The Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Science December 13-14, 2004 to estimate the contributions of lifestyle-related factors to…

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      Measuring Serious Emotional Disturbance in Children: Workshop Summary

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences

      The workshop summarized in this report was organized as part of a study sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office of the Assistant…

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      Green Healthcare Institutions: Health, Environment, and Economics, Workshop Summary

      Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

      Green Healthcare Institutions : Health, Environment, and Economics, Workshop Summary is based on the ninth workshop in a series of workshops sponsored by the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research…

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      Achieving Health Equity via the Affordable Care Act: Promises, Provisions, and Making Reform a Reality for Diverse Patients: Workshop Summary

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities

      Since its creation by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2007, the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities has been fostering dialogue on…

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      Speaking of Health: Assessing Health Communication Strategies for Diverse Populations

      Committee on Communication for Behavior Change in the 21st Century: Improving the Health of Diverse Populations,Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health,Institute of Medicine,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Looks at the challenges of delivering important messages to different audiences. This work, using case studies in the areas of diabetes, mammography, and mass communication campaigns, examines the ways in…

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      Medicolegal Death Investigation System: Workshop Summary

      Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,Committee for the Workshop on the Medicolegal Death Investigation System,National Academy of Sciences

      The US Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of The National Academies to conduct a workshop that would examine the interface of…

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      Measuring Specific Mental Illness Diagnoses with Functional Impairment: Workshop Summary

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences

      The workshop summarized in this report was organized as part of a study sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office of the Assistant…

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      Review of the HIVNET 012 Perinatal HIV Prevention Study

      Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Reviewing the HIVNET 012 Perinatal HIV Prevention Study,National Academy of Sciences

      Mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 afflicts hundreds of thousands of children every year, especially in parts of the world such as sub-Saharan Africa, where HIV infection is prevalent and resources are…

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      Environmental Public Health Impacts of Disasters: Hurricane Katrina, Workshop Summary

      Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

      Public health officials have the traditional responsibilities of protecting the food supply, safeguarding against communicable disease, and ensuring safe and healthful conditions for the population. Beyond this, public health today…

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      Informing Social Security’s Process for Financial Capability Determination

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on the Health of Select Populations,Committee to Evaluate the Social Security Administration's Capability Determination Process for Adult Beneficiaries

      The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) provides benefits to disabled adults and children, offering vital financial support to more than 19 million disabled Americans. Of that group, approximately 5.5 million…

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      Review of the Draft Interagency Report on the Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate

      The U.S. National Climate Assessment identified a number of ways in which climate change is affecting, and is likely to affect, people, infrastructure, natural resources, and ecosystems. Those impacts, in…

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      Setting the Course: A Strategic Vision for Immunization: Part 4: Summary of the Washington, D.C., Workshop

      Committee on the Immunization Finance Dissemination Workshops,Board on Health Care Services,Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

      In 2000, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) produced a report Calling the Shots: Immunization Finance Policies and Practices (IOM, 2000a) that illustrated the uncertainties and instability of the public health…

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      Implications of Genomics for Public Health: Workshop Summary

      Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,Committee on Genomics and the Public's Health in the 21st Century,National Academy of Sciences

      Genomics is the study of the entire human genome. Genomics explores not only the actions of single genes, but also the interactions of multiple genes with each other and with…

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      Setting the Course: A Strategic Vision for Immunization Finance: Part 1: Summary of the Chicago Workshop

      Committee on the Immunization Finance Dissemination Workshops,Division of Health Care Services,Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

      The federal and state partnership in supporting immunization programs that benefit the general population evolved over the last half of the 20th century from a simple cost-sharing arrangement for vaccine…

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      Training Physicians for Public Health Careers

      Committee on Training Physicians for Public Health Careers,National Academy of Sciences

      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…

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      Performance Measurement: Accelerating Improvement

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

      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…

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      Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Veterans: Review of the Scientific Literature

      Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on the Review of the Scientific Literature on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Veterans,National Academy of Sciences

      Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) our Lou Gehrig’s disease is a fatal, mostly non-familial disease that affects the nervous system of humans by causing the degeneration of nerve cells in the…

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      Setting the Course: A Strategic Vision for Immunization: Part 2: Summary of the Austin Workshop

      Committee on the Immunization Finance Dissemination Workshops,Board on Health Care Services,Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

      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…

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      The Role of Nutrition in Maintaining Health in the Nation’s Elderly: Evaluating Coverage of Nutrition Services for the Medicare Population

      Committee on Nutrition Services for Medicare Beneficiaries,Food and Nutrition Board,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Discusses the role of nutrition therapy in the management of a number of diseases. This book also examines what the elderly receive in the way of nutrition services along the…

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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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      Mental Disorders and Disabilities Among Low-Income Children

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Board on the Health of Select Populations,Committee to Evaluate the Supplemental Security Income Disability Program for Children with Mental Disorders

      Children living in poverty are more likely to have mental health problems, and their conditions are more likely to be severe. Of the approximately 1.3 million children who were recipients…

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      Global Environmental Health in the 21st Century: From Governmental Regulation to Corporate Social Responsibility: Workshop Summary

      Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

      Biological threats like SARS and natural disasters like the tsunami in Indonesia have devastated entire regions, and quickly exhausted budgetary resources. As the field of environmental health continues to evolve…

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      Gulf War and Health: Volume 10: Update of Health Effects of Serving in the Gulf War, 2016

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on the Health of Select Populations,Committee on Gulf War and Health, Volume 10: Update of Health Effects of Serving in the Gulf War

      The men and women who served in the Gulf War theater were potentially exposed to a wide range of biological and chemical agents. Gulf War and Health: Volume 1 assesses…

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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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      Gulf War and Health

      Committee on Gulf War and Health: A Review of the Medical Literature Relative to the Gulf War Veterans' Health,National Academy of Sciences

      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…

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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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      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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      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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      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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      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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      Speech and Language Disorders in Children: Implications for the Social Security Administration’s Supplemental Security Income Program

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Institute of Medicine,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Board on the Health of Select Populations

      Speech and language are central to the human experience; they are the vital means by which people convey and receive knowledge, thoughts, feelings, and other internal experiences. Acquisition of communication…

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      Measuring the Risks and Causes of Premature Death: Summary of Workshops

      National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population

      Measuring the Risks and Causes of Premature Death is the summary of two workshops conducted by The Committee on Population of the National Research Council at the National Academies to…

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