Public Health & Preventive Medicine

Universal health coverage (UHC) has been recognized by the World Health Organization as a key element in reducing social inequality and a critical ...

In 2013 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Population Health Improvement organized a workshop to discuss opportunities to foster a healt...

In April 2015, the Institute of Medicine convened a workshop to explore the potential uses of simulation and other types of modeling for the purpos...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines PM as a mixture of extremely small particles and liquid droplets comprising a number of comp...

Since the 2014 Ebola outbreak many public- and private-sector leaders have seen a need for improved management of global public health emergencies....

Recent health care payment reforms aim to improve the alignment of Medicare payment strategies with goals to improve the quality of care provided, ...

Quality of care is a priority for U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The agency's missions abroad and their host country partners w...

In 2004, the Institute of Medicine released Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion, a report on the then-underappreciated challenge of en...

Hepatitis B and C cause most cases of hepatitis in the United States and the world. The two diseases account for about a million deaths a year and ...

In 2008, the U.S. federal government issued fully approved physical activity guidelines for the first time. The idea that physical activity impacts...

The proliferation of consumer-facing technology and personal health information technology has grown steadily over the past decade, and has certain...

Pathogens transmitted among humans, animals, or plants by insects and arthropod vectors have been responsible for significant morbidity and mortali...

Since the 2014 Ebola outbreak many public- and private-sector leaders have seen a need for improved management of global public health emergencies....

The aging and evolving racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. population has the United States in the midst of a profound demographic shift and ...

The most recent Ebola epidemic that began in late 2013 alerted the entire world to the gaps in infectious disease emergency preparedness and respon...

The 20142015 Ebola epidemic in western Africa was the longest and most deadly Ebola epidemic in history, resulting in 28,616 cases and 11,310 death...

At the request of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, the National Academies convened a committee to examine lessons learne...

During natural disasters, disease pandemics, terrorist attacks, and other public health emergencies, the health system must be prepared to accommod...

In its landmark report, Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion, the Institute of Medicine noted that there are 90 million adults in the U...

Ensuring the safety of food and the quality and safety of medicines in a country is an important role of government, made more complicated by globa...

When disaster strikes, it rarely impacts just one jurisdiction. Many catastrophic disaster plans include support from neighboring jurisdictions tha...

In January 2014, the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council, in collaboration with t...

The U.S. National Climate Assessment identified a number of ways in which climate change is affecting, and is likely to affect, people, infrastruct...

Spread, Scale, and Sustainability in Population Health is the summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Populatio...

Globalization of the food supply has created conditions favorable for the emergence, reemergence, and spread of food-borne pathogens-compounding th...

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

Globally, between 15-71 percent of women will experience physical and/or sexual abuse from an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime. Too...

Sharing research data on public health issues can promote expanded scientific inquiry and has the potential to advance improvements in public healt...

Emerging infectious disease threats that may not have available treatments or vaccines can directly affect the security of the world's health since...

In April 2015, the Institute of Medicine convened a public workshop to explore recent shifts in the health and health care industry and their impli...

A particularly valuable opportunity to improve public health arises when an urban area is being redesigned and rebuilt following some type of serio...

For most Americans, staying mentally sharp as they age is a very high priority. Declines in memory and decision-making abilities may trigger fears ...

The environment for women's health has changed over the last 25 years. Increased use of automobiles can lead to health risks from lack of physical ...

The roots of health literacy can be traced back to the national literacy movement in India under Gandhi and to aid groups working in Africa to prom...

Research based on decades of experience in the developing world has identified educational status, especially the status of the mother, as a major ...