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      Considerations in Applying Benefit-Cost Analysis to Preventive Interventions for Children, Youth, and Families: Workshop Summary

      Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Institute of Medicine,National Research Council

      Benefit-cost analyses hold great promise for influencing policies related to children, youth, and families. By comparing the costs of preventive interventions with the long-term benefits of those interventions, benefit-cost analysis…

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      An Update on Research Issues in the Assessment of Birth Settings: Workshop Summary

      National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Children, Youth, and Families

      More than 30 years ago, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council (NRC) convened a committee to determine methodologies and research needed to evaluate childbirth settings in…

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      The Science of Adolescent Risk-Taking: Workshop Report

      Committee on the Science of Adolescence,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Institute of Medicine,National Research Council

      Adolescence is a time when youth make decisions, both good and bad, that have consequences for the rest of their lives. Some of these decisions put them at risk of…

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      Building Capacity to Reduce Bullying: Workshop Summary

      Committee on Law and Justice,Institute of Medicine

      Bullying - long tolerated as just a part of growing up - finally has been recognized as a substantial and preventable health problem. Bullying is associated with anxiety, depression, poor…

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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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      Strengthening Benefit-Cost Analysis for Early Childhood Interventions: Workshop Summary

      Committee on Strengthening Benefit-Cost Methodology for the Evaluation of Early Childhood Interventions,National Research Council and Institute of Medicine,Institute of Medicine

      The deficiencies that many children experience from birth to school age–in health care, nutrition, emotional support, and intellectual stimulation, for example–play a major role in academic achievement gaps that persist…

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      The Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities: A Workshop Report

      Committee on Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce: A Workshop,Institute of Medicine,National Research Council

      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…

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      Getting to Positive Outcomes for Children in Child Care: A Summary of Two Workshops

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

      As a result of the heightened public and political attention and the movement toward standards and accountability, performance measurement has emerged as an important concern in the early childhood care…

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      Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations

      Committee on Oral Health Access to Services,Institute of Medicine,National Research Council

      Access to oral health care is essential to promoting and maintaining overall health and well-being yet only half of the population visits a dentist each year. Poor and minority children…

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      Improving the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of Young Adults: Workshop Summary

      Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Institute of Medicine,National Research Council

      Young adults are at a significant and pivotal time of life. This title presents the summary of a workshop hosted by the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the…

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      From Neurons to Neighborhoods: An Update: Workshop Summary

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

      The original study From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development was released at a press conference in the Washington, DC, headquarters of the National Academy of Sciences…

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      Toward an Integrated Science of Research on Families: Workshop Report

      Committee on the Science of Research on Families,Institute of Medicine,National Research Council

      Demographic changes, immigration, economic upheavals, and changing societal mores are creating new and altered structures, processes, and relationships in American families today. As families undergo rapid change, family science is…

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      Adolescent Decision Making: Implications for Prevention Programs: Summary of a Workshop

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

      Interest in the role that decision making plays in adolescents’ involvement in high-risk behaviors led the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation of the U.S. Department of…

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      The Cost of Inaction for Young Children Globally: Workshop Summary

      National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally

      The Cost of Inaction for Young Children Globally is the summary of a workshop hosted by the Institute of Medicine Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally in April 2014…

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      Financing Investments in Young Children Globally: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine, National Research Council, and The Centre for Early Childhood Education and Development, Ambedkar University, Delhi

      National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally

      In January 2014, the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council, in collaboration with the IOM Board on Global Health, launched…

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      Design of the National Children’s Study: A Workshop Summary

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

      In the fall of 2012, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) requested that the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the NRC and the IOM convene a…

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      Studying Media Effects on Children and Youth: Improving Methods and Measures, Workshop Summary

      Program Committee for a Workshop on Improving Research on Interactive Media and Children's Health,National Research Council

      The presence and intensity of media influences television, radio, music, computers, films, videos, and the Internet are increasingly recognized as an important part of the social ecology of children and…

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      Child Maltreatment Research, Policy, and Practice for the Next Decade: Workshop Summary

      Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Institute of Medicine,National Research Council

      . ..on January 30-31, 2012, the Board on Children, Youth, and Families at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the NRC held a workshop to review the accomplishments of the…

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      Children’s Health, the Nation’s Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health

      Committee on Evaluation of Children's Health,National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

      Provides an examination of the information about children’s health that is needed to help policy makers and program providers at the federal, state, and local levels. This book describes what…

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      Scaling Program Investments for Young Children Globally: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine, the National Research Council, and Funda??o Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal, S?o Paulo

      National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally

      This report summarizes a joint workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council with Fundacao Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal in November 2014 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The…

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      Reducing the Odds: Preventing Perinatal Transmission of HIV in the United States

      Committee on Perinatal Transmission of HIV,Institute of Medicine

      Evaluates the extent to which state efforts have been effective in reducing the perinatal transmission of HIV. This book is of interest to federal, state, and local health policymakers, prenatal…

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      Working Families and Growing Kids: Caring for Children and Adolescents

      Committee on Family and Work Policies,National Research Council

      An informative mix of data and discussion, this text presents conclusions and recommendations for policies that can respond to the new conditions shaping America’s working families. The book also evaluates…

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      From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development

      National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development

      How we raise young children is one of today’s most highly personalized and sharply politicized issues, in part because each of us can claim some level of expertise. The debate…

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      Strategies for Scaling Effective Family-Focused Preventive Interventions to Promote Children’s Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health: Workshop Summary

      National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Forum on Promoting Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health

      Over the last three decades, researchers have made remarkable progress in creating and testing family-focused programs aimed at fostering the cognitive, affective, and behavioral health of children. These programs include…

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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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      Harvesting the Scientific Investment in Prevention Science to Promote Children’s Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health: Workshop Summary

      Forum on Promoting Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Institute of Medicine,National Research Council

      Over the past few decades there have been major successes in creating evidence-based interventions to improve the cognitive, affective, and behavioral health of children. Many of these interventions have been…

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      Weight Gain During Pregnancy: Reexamining the Guidelines

      Committee to Reexamine IOM Pregnancy Weight Guidelines,Institute of Medicine,National Research Council

      Weight Gain During Pregnancy explores relationships between weight gain during prenancy and a variety of factors and places this in the context of the health of the infant and the…

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      Focusing on Children’s Health: Community Approaches to Addressing Health Disparities: Workshop Summary

      Roundtable on Health Disparities,Institute of Medicine,National Research Council

      Socioeconomic conditions are known to be major determinants of health at all stages of life, from pregnancy through childhood and adulthood. Life-course epidemiology has added a further dimension to the…

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      Community Programs to Promote Youth Development

      Institute of Medicine,National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Community-Level Programs for Youth

      After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have been thought to play a key role in the lives of adolescents. This book offers…

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      Engaging Schools: Fostering High School Students’ Motivation to Learn

      Committee on Increasing High School Students' Engagement and Motivation to Learn,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      What is it about the school environment - pedagogy, curriculum, climate, organization - that encourages or discourages engagement in school activities? This book reviews research on what shapes adolescents’ school…

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      Growing Up Global: The Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries

      Panel on Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries,National Research Council

      Highlights the persistent disadvantages for young women relative to young men, the special needs of the poor, and youth living in sub-Saharan Africa, in the context of the transition to…

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      Influence of Pregnancy Weight on Maternal and Child Health: Workshop Report

      Committee on the Impact of Pregnancy Weight on Maternal and Child Health,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Influence of Pregnancy Weight on Maternal and Child Health: Workshop Report summarizes a one and a half day workshop convened in May 2006 that reviewed U.S. trends in maternal weight…

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      Sports-Related Concussions in Youth: Improving the Science, Changing the Culture

      National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Sports-Related Concussions in Youth

      Over the years, few subjects at the intersection of medicine and sports have generated as much public interest as sports-related concussions - especially among youth. This book reviews the science…

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      Sleep Needs, Patterns and Difficulties of Adolescents: Summary of a Workshop

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

      Sleep is not only a biological necessity but also a physiological drive. In today’s fast-paced world, though, a good night’s sleep is often the first thing to go. The effects…

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      Innovations in Design and Utilization of Measurement Systems to Promote Children’s Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health: Workshop Summary

      National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Forum on Promoting Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health

      Many measurement systems to monitor the well-being of children and guide services are implemented across the community, state, and national levels in the United States. While great progress has been…

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      Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation

      National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on the Science of Children Birth to Age 8: Deepening and Broadening the Foundation for Success

      Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults…

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      Leveraging Action to Support Dissemination of the Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines: Workshop Summary

      National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Food and Nutrition Board,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Implementation of the IOM Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines

      As part of the continuing effort of The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council (NRC) to promote the revised pregnancy weight gain guidelines recommended in their 2009…

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      The National Children’s Study Research Plan: A Review

      Panel to Review the National Children's Study Research Plan,National Research Council,Institute of Medicine

      The National Children’s Study (NCS) is planned to be the largest long-term study of environmental and genetic effects on children’s health ever conducted in the United States. This book evaluates…

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      Depression in Parents, Parenting, and Children: Opportunities to Improve Identification, Treatment, and Prevention

      Committee on Depression, Parenting Practices, and the Healthy Development of Children,National Research Council,Institute of Medicine

      Depression is a widespread condition affecting approximately 7.5 million parents in the U.S. each year and may be putting at least 15 million children at risk for adverse health outcomes…

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      Integrating Federal Statistics on Children: Report of a Workshop

      Committee on National Statistics and Board on Children and Families,National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

      Examines the adequacy of federal statistics on children and families. This volume includes papers on the relevant aspects of health care reform, family and community resources, interpersonal violence, the transition…

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      After-School Programs to Promote Child and Adolescent Development: Summary of a Workshop

      Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Community-Level Programs for Youth,Institute of Medicine,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

      This report summarizes the presentations and discussion at a workshop entitled Opportunities to Promote Child and Adolescent Development During the After-School Hours, convened on October 21, 1999. The workshop was…

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      A Study of Interactions: Emerging Issues in the Science of Adolescence: Workshop Summary

      Program Committee for a Workshop on the Synthesis of Research on Adolescent Health and Development,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Institute of Medicine,National Research Council

      Scholars–and adults in general–have pondered for centuries the mysterious processes that influence the ways in which children gradually become adults. The development of professional organizations and journals devoted to adolescence…

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      Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Responsibility

      Committee on Developing a Strategy to Reduce and Prevent Underage Drinking,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,National Research Council

      Reducing Underage Drinking addresses the problem of alcohol abuse by young people and proposes a new way to combat underage alcohol use. It explores the ways in which many different…

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      Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities

      Committee on the Prevention of Mental Disorders and Substance Abuse Among Children, Youth and Young Adults: Research Advances and Promising Interventions,Institute of Medicine

      This update of Reducing Risks for Mental Disorders focuses special attention on the research base and program experience with younger populations that have emerged since 1994. Those involved in prevention…

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      Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity

      The prevalence of childhood obesity is so high in the United States that it may reduce the life expectancy of today’s generation of children. Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood…

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      Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States

      National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Committee on Law and Justice,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States

      Every day in the United States, children and adolescents are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. This title examines commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of US citizens…

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      Investing in the Health and Well-Being of Young Adults

      Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Institute of Medicine,National Research Council,Committee on Improving the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of Young Adults

      Young adulthood - ages approximately 18 to 26 - is a critical period of development with long-lasting implications for a person’s economic security, health and well-being. Young adults are key…

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      Preventing Teen Motor Crashes: Contributions from the Behavioral and Social Sciences: Workshop Report

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

      From a public health perspective, motor vehicle crashes are among the most serious problems facing teenagers. Even after more than six months of being licensed to drive alone, teens are…

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