Public Health & Preventive Medicine

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 ...

In late 2016, U.S. Embassy personnel in Havana, Cuba, began to report the development of an unusual set of symptoms and clinical signs. For some of...

On September 14, 2017, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a ...

To explore issues related to community-driven power-building efforts to improve population health, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement ...

In September 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted at the United Nations Development Summit to serve as a 15-year plan of act...

Among the many who serve in the United States Armed Forces and who are deployed to distant locations around the world, myriad health threats are en...

A planning committee convened by the Forum on Microbial Threats of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a virtual wor...

Oral health care and medical health care both seek to maintain and enhance human health and well-being. Yet, dentistry and primary care in the Unit...

On June 11 and June 12, 2019, the National Academies convened a workshop to explore the growing understanding of how the interplay between humans a...

This book sets out to restore the concept of healing to its place within and beyond pain medicine, in chapters authored by keynote speakers to the...

The high rate of incarceration in the United States contributes significantly to the nation's health inequities, extending beyond those who are imp...