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      Reproductive Health in Developing Countries: Expanding Dimensions, Building Solutions

      Panel on Reproductive Health,National Research Council

      Addressing the design and delivery of reproductive health services, this volume presents lessons learned from past programs and offers principles for deciding how to spend limited available funds. It is…

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      Accounting for Health and Health Care: Approaches to Measuring the Sources and Costs of Their Improvement

      Panel to Advance a Research Program on the Design of National Health Accounts,National Research Council

      It has become trite to observe that increases in health care costs have become unsustainable. How best for policy to address these increases, however, depends in part on the degree…

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      The Aging Population in the Twenty-First Century: Statistics for Health Policy

      Panel on Statistics for an Aging Population,Committee on National Statistics,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council

      Examines social, economic, and demographic changes among the aged, as well as many health-related topics: health promotion and disease prevention; quality of life; health care system financing and use; and…

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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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      The Use of Drugs in Food Animals: Benefits and Risks

      Committee on Drug Use in Food Animals,Panel on Animal Health, Food Safety, and Public Health,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Provides an overview of why and how drugs are used in the major food-producing animal industries. This volume discusses the prevalence of human pathogens in foods of animal origin. It…

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      Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life: A Research Agenda

      Panel on Race, Ethnicity, and Health in Later Life,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Considers possible explanations for racial and ethnic health differentials within an integrated framework. This book recommends looking at health differentials across the life course and deciphering the links between factors…

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      Data Needs for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program

      Panel for the Workshop on the State Children's Health Insurance Program,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was established by Congress to provide health insurance to uninsured children whose family income was too high for Medicaid coverage but too low…

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      Toward a National Health Care Survey: A Data System for the 21st Century

      Panel on the National Health Care Survey,Committee on National Statistics,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,Division of Health Care Services

      Contains an evaluation of the plan developed by the National Center for Health Statistics for restructuring its provider surveys. This work identifies the data needed by researchers and policymakers to…

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      Improving Racial and Ethnic Data on Health: Report of a Workshop

      Panel on DHHS Collection of Race and Ethnicity Data,Committee on National Statistics,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      The panel convened the Workshop on Improving Racial and Ethnic Data in Health to review information about current private-sector and state data collection practices in light of existing federal, state…

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      Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life

      Panel on Race, Ethnicity, and Health in Later Life,National Research Council

      In their later years, Americans of different racial and ethnic backgrounds are not in equally good–or equally poor–health. There is wide variation, but on average older Whites are healthier than…

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      Measuring Health Performance in the Public Sector: A Summary of Two Reports

      Panel on Performance Measures and Data for Public Health Performance Partnership Grants,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      The Panel on Performance Measures and Data for Public Health Performance Partnership Grants was established at the request of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Its charge…

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      Eliminating Health Disparities: Measurement and Data Needs

      Panel on DHHS Collection of Race and Ethnic Data,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Although disparity in health care in America is well documented, data is severely limited on some issues, such as race, ethnicity, socio- economic position, acculturation and language.

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      U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health

      Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries,Committee on Population,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice

      The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved…

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      Assessment of Performance Measures for Public Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Health

      Panel on Performance Measures and Data for Public Health Performance Partnership Grants,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Examines the technical issues in the development of performance measures in 10 areas: mental health, substance abuse, HIV infection, sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, immunization, chronic diseases, disability, rape, and emergency…

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      Medical Care Economic Risk: Measuring Financial Vulnerability from Spending on Medical Care

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

      The United States has seen major advances in medical care during the past decades, but access to care at an affordable cost is not universal. Many Americans lack health care…

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      Health Performance Measurement in the Public Sector: Principles and Policies for Implementing an Information Network

      Panel on Performance Measures and Data for Public Health Performance Partnership Grants,National Research Council

      Focuses on data and information system issues at the federal, state, and local levels. This book includes recommendations that address: policy framework for selecting performance measures and using performance measurement…

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      Measuring Respirator Use in the Workplace

      Panel on Review of the National Institute of Occupation Safety and Health,Bureau of Labor Statistics Respirator Use Survey

      Respirators are used in a variety of workplaces including emergency response, mining operations, construction, manufacturing, and hospitals. In 2001, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and Bureau of…

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