Books written by Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Assessing Medical Technologies

Karen Markey, Online Catalog Use' Results of Surveys and Focus Group Interviews in Several Libraries (final report to the Council on Library Resources, V.2, Dublin, Ohio: OCLC, Inc., Mar. 1983), OCLC/OPR/RR-83/3. 4.
Promoting Health: Intervention Strategies from Social and Behavioral Research

Intervention Strategies from Social and Behavioral Research Institute of Medicine, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Committee on Capitalizing on Social Science and Behavioral Research to Improve the Public's Health ...
Ending Neglect: The Elimination of Tuberculosis in the United States

The panel also focuses on how to mobilize policy makers and the public to effective action. The book provides important background on the pathology of tuberculosis, its history and status in the U.S., and the public and private response.
New Vaccine Development: Establishing Priorities: Volume II, Diseases of Importance in Developing Countries

Establishing Priorities: Volume II, Diseases of Importance in Developing Countries Institute of Medicine, Board on ... FISOMEX, Mexico SCOTT HALSTEAD, Health Sciences Division, The Rockefeller Foundation KARL M.JOHNSON, Hoffman-LaRoche, ...
Preventing Low Birthweight

Part I of this volume defines the significance of the problems, presents current data on risk factors and etiology, and reviews recent state and national trends in the incidence of low birthweight among various groups.
Clearing the Air: Asthma and Indoor Air Exposures

Clearing the Air meets this need. This book examines how indoor pollutants contribute to asthmaâ€"its causation, prevalence, triggering, and severity.
Tuberculosis in the Workplace

Tuberculosis in the Workplace reviews evidence about the effectiveness of control measuresâ€"such as those recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionâ€"intended to prevent transmission of tuberculosis in health care ...
Oral Contraceptives and Breast Cancer

The potential connection with breast cancer has caused concern among these OC users and uncertainty among many of their physicians. This new volume offers the most up-to-date information available on this critical topic.
Extending Life, Enhancing Life: A National Research Agenda on Aging

Biomedical ethics-To clarify underlying ethical guidelines about life and death decisions. Most important, the volume firmly establishes the connection between research and its beneficial results for the quality of life for older persons.
No Time to Lose: Getting More from HIV Prevention

30 NO TIME TO LOSE are broadly allocated to maintain proportionality to reported AIDS cases. Thus, proportionality is the implicit strategy for allocation of federal funds. This point is illustrated by Figures 3.1–3.4.
Reducing the Burden of Injury: Advancing Prevention and Treatment

This book highlights the crosscutting nature of the injury field, identifies opportunities to leverage resources and expertise of the numerous parties involved, and discusses issues regarding leadership at the federal level.
Gulf War and Health: Volume 1. Depleted Uranium, Pyridostigmine Bromide, Sarin, and Vaccines

Health Consequences of Service During the Persian Gulf War: Initial Findings and Recommendations for Immediate Action. ... Emotional Aftermath of the Persian Gulf War: Veterans, Families, Communities, and Nations.
Vaccines for the 21st Century: A Tool for Decisionmaking

Tumor Antigens (MAGE, RAGE, GAGE, RAGE). The first gene they isolated was called melanoma antigen 1 (MAGE-1), a previously unknown gene whose sequence is the same in DNA from melanoma cells and blood lymphocytes of the same patient.
Gulf War and Health: Volume 1: Depleted Uranium, Sarin, Pyridostigmine Bromide, and Vaccines

Gulf War and Health: Volume 1 assesses the scientific literature concerning the association between these agents and the adverse health effects currently experienced by a large number of veterans.
Vaccines for the 21st Century: A Tool for Decisionmaking

This volume provides an analytic framework and quantitative model for evaluating disease conditions that can be applied by those setting priorities for vaccine development over the coming decades.
Preventing Low Birthweight

Part I of this volume defines the significance of the problems, presents current data on risk factors and etiology, and reviews recent state and national trends in the incidence of low birthweight among various groups.
Promoting Health: Intervention Strategies from Social and Behavioral Research

Promoting Health identifies those promising areas of social science and behavioral research that may address public health needs.
Vaccine Supply and Innovation

This book examines vaccine research and development, production and supply, and utilization and offers recommendations aimed at ensuring vaccine supply and promoting innovation.
Medical Professional Liability and the Delivery of Obstetrical Care: Volume II, An Interdisciplinary Review

The second volume of an overall look at the "malpractice crisis" sheds fresh light on the civil justice and insurance systems, medical liability issues, and their combined effect on health care for mothers and children.
Clearing the Air: Asthma and Indoor Air Exposures

Clearing the Air meets this need. This book examines how indoor pollutants contribute to asthmaâ€"its causation, prevalence, triggering, and severity.