Author: Institute of Medicine

Young adults are at a significant and pivotal time of life. They may seek higher education, launch their work lives, develop personal relationships...

Health care in the United States is more expensive than in other developed countries, costing $2.7 trillion in 2011, or 17.9 percent of the nationa...

Health care has been called one of the most complex sectors of the U.S. economy. Driven largely by robust innovation in treatments and intervention...

The Role and Potential of Communities in Population Health Improvement is the summary of a workshop held by the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on...

Bullying - long tolerated as just a part of growing up - finally has been recognized as a substantial and preventable health problem. Bullying is a...

Recent scientific and technological advances have accelerated our understanding of the causes of disease development and progression, and resulted ...

More than 2 decades have passed since the 1990-1991 conflict in the Persian Gulf. During the intervening years, many Gulf War veterans have experie...

Benefit-cost analyses hold great promise for influencing policies related to children, youth, and families. By comparing the costs of preventive in...

Assessing Health Professional Education is the summary of a workshop hosted by the Institute of Medicine's Global Forum on Innovation in Health Pro...

The United States has been a generous sponsor of global health programs for the past 25 years or more. This investment has contributed to meaningfu...

In recent years, patients' out-of-pocket costs for cancer care have been rising rapidly. These costs include health insurance deductibles, coinsura...

The National Children's Study (NCS) was authorized by the Children's Health Act of 2000 and is being implemented by a dedicated Program Office in t...

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the signature injuries of the U.S. conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, but it affects veterans of all...

Substantial empirical evidence of the contribution of social and behavioral factors to functional status and the onset and progression of disease h...

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) was created in 2005 by The California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act (Proposition 71) t...

Health literacy is the degree to which individuals can obtain, process, and understand the basic health information and services they need to make ...

In March and early April 2009, a new, swine-origin 2009-H1N1 influenza A virus emerged in Mexico and the United States. During the first few weeks ...

Although epilepsy is one of the nation's most common neurological disorders, public understanding of it is limited. Many people do not know the cau...

Although health literacy is commonly defined as an individual trait, it does not depend on the skills of individuals alone. Health literacy is the ...

For patients and their loved ones, no care decisions are more profound than those made near the end of life. Unfortunately, the experience of dying...

The indoor environment affects occupants' health and comfort. Poor environmental conditions and indoor contaminants are estimated to cost the U.S. ...

Nervous system diseases and disorders are highly prevalent and substantially contribute to the overall disease burden. Despite significant informat...

More than 16 million children in the United States live in food-insecure households where they are unable to obtain enough food to meet their needs...

At least 5.6 million to 8 millionnearly one in fiveolder adults in America have one or more mental health and substance use conditions, which prese...