Author: Board on Health Care Services

Despite advances in the delivery of high-quality cancer care and improvements in patient outcomes in recent years, disparities in cancer incidence,...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that provide disability benefits: the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)...

Throughout history, perhaps no other disease has generated the level of social, scientific, and political discourse or has had the degree of cultur...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held the workshop Applying Big Data to Address the Social Determinants of Health in O...

On November 18 and 19, 2019, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a public workshop in Washington, DC, titled Shari...

Access to oral health care is essential to promoting and maintaining overall health and well-being, yet only half of the population visits a dentis...

Suicide prevention initiatives are part of much broader systems connected to activities such as the diagnosis of mental illness, the recognition of...

Millions of people are living with dementia in the United States and globally. To live well with dementia, people need care, services, and supports...

Temporomandibular disorders (TMDs), are a set of more than 30 health disorders associated with both the temporomandibular joints and the muscles an...

The National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a virtual workshop in March 2021 to exam...

To explore the role of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in innovative drug development and its impact on patient access, the Board on Health...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that approximately 40 million people in the United States suffer from a serious illness th...

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), in partnership with other agencies and divisions of the United States Dep...

The United States faces a significantly aging population as well as a growing share of the population that is living longer with multiple chronic c...

At any one time, at least 30,000 people in the U.S. are living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a rapidly progressive, fatal neurological ...

A National Academies committee was tasked with identifying essential health care services for women related to intimate partner violence (IPV) duri...

To examine the potential role of companion animals as sentinels of relevant, shared environmental exposures that may affect human aging and cancer,...

IOM's 1999 landmark study To Err is Human estimated that between 44,000 and 98,000 lives are lost every year due to medical errors. This call to ac...

As the United States devotes extensive resources to health care, evaluating how successfully the U.S. system delivers high-quality, high-value care...

Despite spending more time and money in developing novel therapeutics, the success rate for new pharmacologic treatments has been poor. Although th...

'Long COVID' refers to the wide range of long-lasting symptoms experienced by some patients after a SARS-CoV-2 infection. The most common symptoms ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted existing weaknesses in the United States health care system, while creating a new set of challenges related t...

The National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN) supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has played an integral role in cancer research and in ...

In an era of promising advances in cancer research, there are considerable and even alarming gaps in the fundamental knowledge and understanding of...

Medicare, the world's single largest health insurance program, covers more than 47 million Americans. Although it is a national program, it adjusts...

Recent research suggests that obesity and excess weight can play a prominent role in the incidence and progression of various cancers. Obesity resu...

The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) administers programs that provide disability benefits. Once SSA establishes the presence of a severe ...

Over the past few years the common use of telehealth technology has been rapidly expanding. While remote models of care have been successfully used...

Millions of Americans of all ages face the challenge of living with serious illnesses such as advanced cancer, heart, or lung disease. Many people ...

Thanks to remarkable advances in modern health care attributable to science, engineering, and medicine, it is now possible to cure or manage illnes...

Identifying and Addressing the Needs of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer is the summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine...

Every patient is unique, and the evolving field of precision medicine aims to ensure the delivery of the right treatment to the right patient at th...

A hallmark of high-quality cancer care is the delivery of the right treatment to the right patient at the right time. Precision oncology therapies,...

Advance Care Planning(ACP)has long been a staple of caring for people with serious illness. Over its history, it has been defined in different ways...

Palliative care is the interdisciplinary specialty focused on improving quality of life for people with serious illness and their families. This in...

Rapid advances in cancer research, the development of new and more sophisticated approaches to diagnostic testing, and the growth in targeted cance...