Böcker av Institute of Medicine

Identifies various steps for LMCs and their partners to begin to reduce the cancer burden. This book helps in developing and increasing capacity for cancer screening and treatment of highly curable cancers (including childhood malignancies). It discusses ways to make inexpensive oral morphine available to those who die from cancer.

Food choices and eating habits are learned from many sources. The school environment plays a significant role in teaching and modeling health behaviors. This title offers both reviews and recommendations about appropriate nutrition standards and guidance for the sale, content, and consumption of foods and beverages at school.

"Rpt. no. 2, Reviews of research programs of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health"--T.p. verso.

Dietary Reference Intakes Research Synthesis: Workshop Summary

Une bonne sante commence par une saine alimentation, et une saine alimentation repose sur un regime alimentaire equilibre qui fournit les quantites adequates d'energie et de nutriments.

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 from before product approval through the entire time the product is marketed and used.

As our nation enters an era of medical science that offers the real prospect of personalized health care, we will be confronted by an increasingly complex array of health care options and decisions. This title focuses on issues important to improving the development and application of evidence in health care decision making.

Adverse Drug Event Reporting: The Roles of Consumers and Health-Care Professionals

Explores decision-making process for selecting seafood by assessing evidence on availability of specific nutrients (compared to other food sources) to obtain nutritional benefits. This book develops a decision path for US consumers to weigh their seafood choices to obtain nutritional benefits balanced against exposure risks.

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 for implementing payment incentives to provide value for America's health care investments.

Examines a number of gene-environment interactions and reviews state of the science in researching such interactions. This book recommends priorities not only for research itself but also for its workforce, resource, and infrastructural needs.

Reusability of Facemasks During an Influenza Pandemic: Facing the Flu

Examines the operational structure of EMS by presenting an analysis of the organization, delivery, and financing of these types of services and systems. This book is helpful for emergency care providers, professional organizations, and policy makers looking to address the deficiencies in emergency care systems.

Addresses the difficulty of balancing the roles of hospital-based emergency and trauma care, not simply urgent and lifesaving care, but also safety net care for uninsured patients, public health surveillance, disaster preparation, and adjunct care in the face of increasing patient volume and limited resources.

Examines the challenges associated with the provision of emergency services to children and families and evaluates its progress. This book will be helpful for emergency health care providers, professional organizations, and policy makers looking to address the pediatric deficiencies within their emergency care systems.

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 and medical literature regarding association between asbestos and colorectal, laryngeal, esophageal, and stomach cancers.

The Department of Defense (DoD), through the commanding general of the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC), requested that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) conduct a programmatic review of the military Plasmodium falciparum malaria vaccine research and development program. This book presents the committee's findings.

Assesses the problem with respect to the causes and outcomes of preterm birth. This book addresses the need for research involving clinical, basic, behavioral, and social science disciplines. It also addresses the health and economic consequences of premature birth.

Examines proposals to increase organ donation, including policies that presume consent for donation as well as the use of financial incentives such as direct payments, coverage of funeral expenses, and charitable contributions. This book urges federal agencies and others to boost opportunities for people to record their decisions to donate.

Clinical practice related to sleep problems and sleep disorders has been expanding rapidly. This book presents an analysis that explores topics such as: improving awareness among the general public and health care professionals; and increasing investment in interdisciplinary somnology and sleep medicine research training and mentoring activities.

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 care delivery environment that includes standardized performance measures and reporting requirements.

Workshop on Disability in America: A New Look - Summary and Background Papers (2006)

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 students in the field.