Books written by Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice
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Toward Health Equity and Patient-Centeredness: Integrating Health Literacy, Disparities Reduction, and Quality Improvement: Workshop Summary
The Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation, the Roundtable on Health Disparities, and the Roundtable on Health Literacy jointly convened the workshop "Toward Health Equity and Patient-Centeredness: ...
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Achieving Health Equity via the Affordable Care Act: Promises, Provisions, and Making Reform a Reality for Diverse Patients: Workshop Summary
Promises, Provisions, and Making Reform a Reality for Diverse Patients: Workshop Summary National Academies of Sciences, ... tor at the Ashe Faith Project. ... She has been involved in community organizing for more than 35 years.
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State and Local Policy Initiatives to Reduce Health Disparities: Workshop Summary
Pettingill likens the current situation to a perfect storm: health care reform legislation will provide ... system can be used can be seen in a project launched by Allina in New Ulm, Minnesota, a community of 17,000 residents.
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Achieving Health Equity via the Affordable Care Act: Promises, Provisions, and Making Reform a Reality for Diverse Patients: Workshop Summary
Promises, Provisions, and Making Reform a Reality for Diverse Patients: Workshop Summary National Academies of Sciences, ... tor at the Ashe Faith Project. ... She has been involved in community organizing for more than 35 years.
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Addressing Sickle Cell Disease: A Strategic Plan and Blueprint for Action
Average annual NIH funding per affected individual for CF was almost four times more than the average annual funding per affected individual for SCD during the period under review (Farooq and Strouse, 2018). The funding difference was ...
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Strategies for Ensuring Diversity, Inclusion, and Meaningful Participation in Clinical Trials: Proceedings of a Workshop
Even as the U.S. population becomes steadily more diverse, minorities and women remain underrepresented in clinical trials to develop new drugs and medical devices.
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Gulf War and Health: Volume 6: Physiologic, Psychologic, and Psychosocial Effects of Deployment-Related Stress
The CIDI was administered in Australia as part of a two-phase study of 1381 Gulf War veterans and 1377 nondeployed controls ... The prevalence of alcohol and drug abuse or dependence before the Gulf War was similar in the deployed and ...
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Scientific Standards for Studies on Modified Risk Tobacco Products
Smoking-related diseases kill more Americans than alcohol, illegal drugs, murder and suicide combined.
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Public Health Implications of Raising the Minimum Age of Legal Access to Tobacco Products
The report reviews the existing literature on tobacco use patterns, developmental biology and psychology, health effects of tobacco use, and the current landscape regarding youth access laws, including minimum age laws and their enforcement ...
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Review of the Proposal for the Gulf Long-Term Follow-Up Study: Highlights from the September 2010 Workshop: Workshop Report
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is designing a study to investigate the health effects on clean-up workers. The IOM held a workshop to review and comment on NIEHS'o;s study protocol.
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Focusing on Children's Health: Community Approaches to Addressing Health Disparities: Workshop Summary
Many of these issues were raised in the 1995 National Academies book, Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth. The present volume builds upon this earlier book with presentations and examples from the field.
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Focusing on Children's Health: Community Approaches to Addressing Health Disparities: Workshop Summary
Many of these issues were raised in the 1995 National Academies book, Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth. The present volume builds upon this earlier book with presentations and examples from the field.
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Vibrant and Healthy Kids: Aligning Science, Practice, and Policy to Advance Health Equity
... H. Reynolds, and S. S. Rising. 2007. Group prenatal care and perinatal outcomes: A randomized controlled trial. Obstetrics & Gynecology 110(2 Pt. 1):330–339. Ickovics, J. R., V. Earnshaw, J. B. Lewis, T. S. Kershaw, U. Magriples, ...
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Implications of Health Literacy for Public Health: Workshop Summary
Implications of Health Literacy for Public Health is the summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Health Literacy in November 2013 that focused on the implications of health literacy for the mission and ...
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Oral Health Literacy: Workshop Summary
"Oral health and oral health literacy are the focus of interest at the national level as demonstrated in the recommendations from two recent IOM reports and in the objectives of Healthy People 2020.
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Leading Health Indicators 2030: Advancing Health, Equity, and Well-Being
At the request of HHS, this study presents a slate of Leading Health Indicators (LHIs) that will serve as options for the Healthy People Federal Interagency Workgroup to consider as they develop the final criteria and set of LHIs for ...
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Achieving Rural Health Equity and Well-Being: Proceedings of a Workshop
Rural counties make up about 80 percent of the land area of the United States, but they contain less than 20 percent of the U.S. population.
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An American Crisis: The Growing Absence of Black Men in Medicine and Science: Proceedings of a Joint Workshop
Black men are increasingly underrepresented in medical schools and in the medical profession.
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Investing in Interventions That Address Non-Medical, Health-Related Social Needs: Proceedings of a Workshop
To explore the potential effect of addressing non-medical health-related social needs on improving population health and reducing health care spending in a value-driven health care delivery system, the National Academies of Science, ...
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Exploring Tax Policy to Advance Population Health, Health Equity, and Economic Prosperity: Proceedings of a Workshop
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Population Health Improvement has been focused on the subject of dependable resources for population health since its inception in 2013.