Public Health & Preventive Medicine

Health literacy is a critical skill for engaging in healthy behaviors to reduce disease risk and improve health outcomes across the continuum of ca...

Despite having the costliest medical care delivery system in the world, Americans are not particularly healthy. Recent international comparisons sh...

During the last 25 years, life expectancy at age 50 in the United States has been rising, but at a slower pace than in many other high-income count...

At the turn of the 21st century, several important reports and events designed to raise awareness of health disparities and to describe initial eff...

The leading challenges in public healthranging from rising obesity rates to the fast-growing population of older adultsare complex and cannot be so...

Emerging real-time data sources, together with innovative data science techniques and methods - including artificial intelligence and machine learn...

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In December 2019, new cases of severe pneumonia were first detected in Wuhan, China, and the cause was determined to be a novel beta coronavirus re...

On March 21, 2019, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 1-da...

A 2010 IOM report, Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World, found that not only is it possible to reduce the burden of cardiovascul...

Among the poorest and least developed regions in the world, sub-Saharan Africa has long faced a heavy burden of disease, with malaria, tuberculosis...

Adolescence is a time when youth make decisions, both good and bad, that have consequences for the rest of their lives. Some of these decisions put...

Violence against women and children is a serious public health concern, with costs at multiple levels of society. Although violence is a threat to ...

Years of using, misusing, and overusing antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs has led to the emergence of multidrug-resistant 'superbugs.' The ...

Rural America is economically, socially, culturally, geographically, and demographically diverse. This multidimensional diversity presents complex ...

In September 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board convened a workshop in Washington, DC, ...

The United States and India have pledged to deepen the linkages between their people, their businesses, and their governments for the mutual benefi...

Suicide prevention initiatives are part of much broader systems connected to activities such as the diagnosis of mental illness, the recognition of...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in collaboration with the InterAcademy Partnership and the European Academies Science...

Young people develop health literacy skills in a variety of environments, facing critical thinking challenges about their health from school, home ...

In response to a request from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, ...

To draw attention to health determinants and health inequities among populations that live in urban environments and to explore challenges faced in...

On March 22, 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to examine the collaboration between the faith...

Legionnaires' disease, a pneumonia caused by the Legionella bacterium, is the leading cause of reported waterborne disease outbreaks in the United ...