Author: Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice

Women suffer disproportionate rates of chronic disease and disability from some conditions, and often have high out-of-pocket health care costs. Th...

Tobacco consumption continues to be the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

The staggering number of deaths and emergency department visits caused by firearm injuries has only grown with time. Costs associated with firearm ...

Approximately 7.4 million people in the United States live with an intellectual or developmental disability (IDD), defined by the Centers for Disea...

In October 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Population Health Improvement hosted a workshop to e...

The number of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in the United States is growing each year largely due both to advances in treatment that allow HI...

The Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Population Health Improvement brings together individuals and organizations that represent different sect...

Despite spending far more on medical care than any other nation and despite having seen a century of unparalleled improvement in population health ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is responsible for preventing the introduction, transmission, and spread of communicable ...

More than 200,000 people in the United States living with HIV/AIDS do not know they are infected. The Institute of Medicine's Committee on HIV Scre...

Firearm injuries and death are a serious public health concern in the United States. Firearm-related injuries account for tens of thousands of prem...

Even as the U.S. population becomes steadily more diverse, minorities and women remain underrepresented in clinical trials to develop new drugs and...

One in five people in the United States had a sexually transmitted infection (STI) on any given day in 2018, totaling nearly 68 million estimated i...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for ensuring that medical devices are safe and effective before they go on the market. Sectio...

In times of rapid change and constrained resources, measures that are important, focused, and reliable are vital. However there is an overabundance...

With U.S. health care costs projected to grow at an average rate of 5.5 percent per year from 2018 to 2027, or 0.8 percentage points faster than th...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is one of several federal agencies responsible for protecting Americans against significant risks to...

An estimated 48 percent of the population takes at least one prescription drug in a given month. Drugs provide great benefits to society by saving ...

Population Health Implications of the Affordable Care Act is the summary of a workshop convened in June 2013 by the Institute of Medicine Roundtabl...

Approximately 80 million adults in the United States have low health literacy - an individual's ability to obtain, process, and understand basic he...

In September 2010, the White House Office of National AIDS Policy commissioned an Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee to respond to a two-part st...

Substance use disorder (SUD) and opioid use disorder are significant public health threats that affect millions of Americans each year. To help add...

Closing Evidence Gaps in Clinical Prevention, a new consensus study report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Boa...