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Evaluation Design for Complex Global Initiatives: Workshop Summary
Board on Global HealthCurrent price €49.39Original price €51.99Every year, public and private funders spend many billions of dollars on large-scale, complex, multi-national health initiatives. The only way to k...
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Facilitating Patient Understanding of Discharge Instructions: Workshop Summary
Board on Population Health and Public Health PracticeCurrent price €40.84Original price €42.99The Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from academia, industry, government, foundations, and associations and representatives of...
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Public Health Linkages with Sustainability: Workshop Summary
and MedicineCurrent price €43.69Original price €45.99In 1992 world leaders met at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro to reaffirm the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environme...
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Building a Resilient Workforce: Opportunities for the Department of Homeland Security: Workshop Summary
Board on Health Sciences PolicyCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99Every job can lead to stress. How people cope with that stress can be influenced by many factors. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employs...
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The Human Microbiome, Diet, and Health: Workshop Summary
Food and Nutrition BoardCurrent price €47.49Original price €49.99The Food Forum convened a public workshop on February 22-23, 2012, to explore current and emerging knowledge of the human microbiome, its role in h...
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A Review of NASA Human Research Program''s Scientific Merit Assessment Processes: Letter Report
Board on Health Sciences PolicyCurrent price €33.24Original price €34.99At the request of NASA, an IOM committee reviewed NASA Human Research Program's (HRP's) Scientific Merit Assessment Processes for directed research...
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School Meals: Building Blocks for Healthy Children
Committee on Nutrition Standards for National School Lunch and Breakfast ProgramsCurrent price €71.24Original price €74.99Ensuring that the food provided to children in schools is consistent with current dietary recommendations is an important national focus. Various l...
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Incorporating Occupational Information in Electronic Health Records: Letter Report
Board on Health Sciences Policy€38.99Each year in the United States, more than 4,000 occupational fatalities and more than 3 million occupational injuries occur along with more than 16...
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Infectious Disease Movement in a Borderless World: Workshop Summary
Board on Global HealthCurrent price €64.59Original price €67.99Modern transportation allows people, animals, and plantsand the pathogens they carryto travel more easily than ever before. The ease and speed of t...
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The Emerging Threat of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Southern Africa: Global and Local Challenges and Solutions: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine and the Academy of Science...
Academy of Science of South AfricaCurrent price €48.44Original price €50.99Tuberculosis (TB) kills approximately 4,500 people worldwide every day. While most cases of TB can be treated with antibiotics, some strains have d...
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The Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise: Innovative Strategies to Enhance Products from Discovery Through Approval: Workshop Summary
and TranslationCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99During public health emergencies such as pandemic influenza outbreaks or terrorist attacks, effective vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, and other medic...
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A National Cancer Clinical Trials System for the 21st Century: Reinvigorating the NCI Cooperative Group Program
Board on Health Care ServicesCurrent price €80.74Original price €84.99The National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Clinical Trials Cooperative Group Program has played a key role in developing new and improved cancer therapi...
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Examining Core Elements of International Research Collaboration: Summary of a Workshop
Government-University-Industry Research RoundtableCurrent price €29.44Original price €30.99The globalization of science, engineering, and medical research is proceeding rapidly. The globalization of research has important implications for...
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Interim Report of the Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Care: Preliminary Committee Observations
Board on Health Care ServicesCurrent price €37.99Original price €39.99Interim Report of the Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Health Care: Preliminary Committee Obse...
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Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan: Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Veterans, Service Members, and Their Families
and Their FamiliesCurrent price €69.34Original price €72.99As of December 2012, Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in Iraq have resulted in the deployment of a...
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Mitigating the Nutritional Impacts of the Global Food Price Crisis: Workshop Summary
Board on Global HealthCurrent price €60.79Original price €63.99In 2007 and 2008, the world witnessed a dramatic increase in food prices. The global financial crisis that began in 2008 compounded the burden of h...
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Establishing Precompetitive Collaborations to Stimulate Genomics-Driven Product Development: Workshop Summary
Board on Health Sciences PolicyCurrent price €28.49Original price €29.99Despite the many basic research discoveries in genetics, relatively few gene-based treatments, drugs, or preventative measures have been developed....
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Promoting Health Literacy to Encourage Prevention and Wellness: Workshop Summary
Board on Population Health and Public Health PracticeCurrent price €37.04Original price €38.99Health literacy has been shown to affect health outcomes. The use of preventive services improves health and prevents costly health care expenditur...
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Hepatitis and Liver Cancer: A National Strategy for Prevention and Control of Hepatitis B and C
Board on Population Health and Public Health PracticeCurrent price €53.19Original price €55.99The global epidemic of hepatitis B and C is a serious public health problem. Hepatitis B and C are the major causes of chronic liver disease and li...
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Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5
2005 Rising Above the Gathering Storm CommitteeCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50In the face of so many daunting near-term challenges, U.S. government and industry are letting the crucial strategic issues of U.S. competitiveness...
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A Population-Based Policy and Systems Change Approach to Prevent and Control Hypertension
Board on Population Health and Public Health PracticeCurrent price €54.14Original price €56.99Hypertension is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, affecting nearly one in three Americans. It is prevalent in adults and end...
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The Arc of the Academic Research Career: Issues and Implications for U.S. Science and Engineering Leadership: Summary of a Workshop
and Public PolicyCurrent price €39.55Original price €42.99America's research universities have undergone striking change in recent decades, as have many aspects of the society that surrounds them. This cha...
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The Current State of Obesity Solutions in the United States: Workshop Summary
Food and Nutrition BoardCurrent price €39.89Original price €41.99For the first time in decades, promising news has emerged regarding efforts to curb the obesity crisis in the United States. Obesity rates have fal...
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Caffeine in Food and Dietary Supplements: Examining Safety: Workshop Summary
Board on Health Sciences PolicyCurrent price €54.14Original price €56.99Caffeine in Food and Dietary Supplements is the summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine in August 2013 to review the available ...
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