Public Health & Preventive Medicine

Health literacy, cultural competence, and language access services are distinct but inextricably linked concepts for delivering equitable care to a...

The more than 200,000 men and women that make up the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) workforce have been entrusted with the ultimate responsi...

Health is influenced by a wide range of factors, many of which fall outside of the health care delivery sector. These determinants of health includ...

Leveraging Culture to Address Health Inequalities: Examples from Native Communities is the summary of a workshop convened in November 2012 by the R...

Supporting a Movement for Health and Health Equity is the summary of a workshop convened in December 2013 by the Institute of Medicine Roundtable o...

Liquid fuels are a major part of modern life. They supply energy for ground, water, and air transportation as well as power for industrial and farm...

Business Engagement in Building Healthy Communities is the summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Population H...

While much progress has been made on achieving the Millenium Development Goals over the last decade, the number and complexity of global health cha...

The ability to see deeply affects how human beings perceive and interpret the world around them. For most people, eyesight is part of everyday comm...

With the widespread use of highly active anti-retroviral treatment (HAART), HIV has become a chronic, rather than a fatal, disease. But for their t...

If terrorists released Bacillus anthracis over a large city, hundreds of thousands of people could be at risk of the deadly disease anthrax-caused ...

Lead is a ubiquitous metal in the environment, and its adverse effects on human health are well documented. Lead interacts at multiple cellular sit...

The BioWatch program, funded and overseen by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has three main elementssampling, analysis, and responseeach...

The social determinants of mental health involve the economic, social, and political conditions into which one is born that influence a person's me...

Although the general public in the United States assumes children to be generally healthy and thriving, a substantial and growing number of childre...

Because of the individualized nature of drug and therapeutic treatments, clinical trials require participants who represent the diversity of the pa...

This book reboots the conversation about all technologies relating to robot safety. It covers key features of industry standards, relevant governme...

This textbook covers all general areas of knowledge required for a trainee, generalist medical administrator, and doctor undergoing training to be ...

Five years after Ronald Ross discovered the link between malaria and mosquitos, American entomologist Leland Howard wrote of the mosquito evil that...

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a critical part of infection prevention and health care worker (HCW) protection. The COVID-19 pandemic revea...

This book reviews air pollutants and their effects on human health, biodiversity, and environmental quality in the context of the One Health framew...

This essential book offers suggestions for how cities and spaces can be planned and designed to reduce the impact of stress, provide opportunities ...

This essential book offers suggestions for how cities and spaces can be planned and designed to reduce the impact of stress, provide opportunities ...

Every year at least 1.5 million people suffer adverse effects from medication. These problems occur because people misunderstand labels, are unawar...

Determinants of health - like physical activity levels and living conditions - have traditionally been the concern of public health and have not be...

In the past half century, deadly disease outbreaks caused by novel viruses of animal origin - Nipah virus in Malaysia, Hendra virus in Australia, H...

On February 5, 2015, the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Population Health Improvement hosted a workshop to explore the relationship between pu...

This report summarizes a joint workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council with Fundacao Maria Cecilia Souto Vidig...

Interprofessional teamwork and collaborative practice are emerging as key elements of efficient and productive work in promoting health and treatin...

Since its creation by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2007, the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Dispa...

The Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Health Literacy convened a 1-day public workshop to explore the relationship between palliative care and he...

Companies today are operating in a more complex and competitive environment where traditional models for doing business are no longer sufficient an...

Mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders have a substantial impact on global health and well-being. Disorders such as depression, al...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have been moving from volume-based, fee-for-service payment to value-based payment (VBP), wh...