Public health and preventive medicine

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H1N1 ("e;swine flu"e;), SARS, mad cow disease, and HIV/AIDS are a few examples of zoonotic diseases-diseases transmitted between humans and animals.

Early detection is essential to the control of emerging, reemerging, and novel infectious diseases, whether naturally occurring or intentionally introduced.

Over the past 20 years, public concerns have grown in response to the apparent rising prevalence of food allergy and related atopic conditions, such as eczema.

Today our emergency care system faces an epidemic of crowded emergency departments, patients boarding in hallways waiting to be admitted, and daily ambulance diversions.

After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have long been thought to play a key role in the lives of adolescents.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD), once thought to be confined primarily to industrialized nations, has emerged as a major health threat in developing countries.

Tobacco use has declined because of measures such as high taxes on tobacco products and bans on advertising, but worldwide there are still more than one billion people who regularly use tobacco, including many who purchase products illicitly.

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With the amount of data in the world exploding, big data could generate significant value in the field of infectious disease.

As essential nutrients, sodium and potassium contribute to the fundamentals of physiology and pathology of human health and disease.

The remarkable increase in the prevalence of obesity among children and youth in the United States over a relatively short timespan represents one of the defining public health challenges of the 21st century.

Several positive and negative lifelong behaviors are established during adolescence including diet and exercise, sexual conduct, practices related to oral health, smoking, drinking, and the use if legal and illegal substances.

Data suggest that exposure to secondhand smoke can result in heart disease in nonsmoking adults.

When 18-year-old Jesse Gelsinger died in a gene transfer study at the University of Pennsylvania, the national spotlight focused on the procedures used to ensure research participants' safety and their capacity to safeguard the well-being of those who volunteer for research studies.

The childhood obesity epidemic and related health consequences are urgent public health problems.

This report summarizes the presentations and discussion at a workshop entitled Opportunities to Promote Child and Adolescent Development During the After-School Hours, convened on October 21, 1999.

Public health officials have the traditional responsibilities of protecting the food supply, safeguarding against communicable disease, and ensuring safe and healthful conditions for the population.

Increasing public investments in health care services for low-income and special needs children and adolescents in the United States have raised questions about whether these efforts improve their health outcomes.

Liquid fuels are a major part of modern life.

Vaccines are among the most safe and effective public health interventions to prevent serious disease and death.

Ask for a definition of primary care, and you are likely to hear as many answers as there are health care professionals in your survey.

The nation has made tremendous progress in reducing tobacco use during the past 40 years.

In September 2014, the Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education and the Forum on Public-Private Partnerships for Global Health and Safety of the Institute of Medicine convened a workshop on empowering women and strengthening health systems and services through investing in nursing and midwifery enterprise.

A major goal of the US Department of Defense (DOD) Transformational Medical Technologies Initiative (TMTI) is to develop countermeasures that will protect military personnel against bioweapons, including specific infectious-disease agents and toxins.

Globalization is rapidly changing lives and industries around the world.

Every job can lead to stress.

During a wide-reaching catastrophic public health emergency or disaster, existing surge capacity plans may not be sufficient to enable health care providers to continue to adhere to normal treatment procedures and follow usual standards of care.

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are increasing in epidemic proportions in developing countries.

Recognizing the importance of good nutrition for physical and mental status, theDepartment of Defense asked the Institute of Medicine to guide the design of thenutritional composition of a ration for soldiers on short-term, high-stress missions.

Adolescence is a time of major transition, however, health care services in the United States today are not designed to help young people develop healthy routines, behaviors, and relationships that they can carry into their adult lives.

The chemical sector is a key part of the national economy and has been designated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as one of 17 sectors comprising the nation's Critical Infrastructure.

Ask for a definition of primary care, and you are likely to hear as many answers as there are health care professionals in your survey.

Recent research suggests that obesity and excess weight can play a prominent role in the incidence and progression of various cancers.

The Transformational Medical Technologies (TMT) has been a unique component of the U.

Risk assessments are often used by the federal government to estimate the risk the public may face from such things as exposure to a chemical or the potential failure of an engineered structure, and they underlie many regulatory decisions.

Many of the pesticides applied to food crops in this country are present in foods and may pose risks to human health.

As the public health threat of childhood obesity has become clear, the issue has become the focus of local, state, and national initiatives.

Each year more than 180,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in women in the U.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (herein known as the Affordable Care Act [ACA]) was signed into law on March 23, 2010.

In recent years, the costs of new drug development have skyrocketed.

Building on the innovative Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health offers a strategy to address the quality challenges in rural communities.

This book is a fact-based guide to the appropriate use of fish oil as nature's safest and most effective anti-inflammatory.

Centuries of scientific advances in agriculture have increased the quantity, quality, and variety of ourfood supply.

The global epidemic of hepatitis B and C is a serious public health problem.

Informed consent - the process of communication between a patient or research subject and a physician or researcher that results in the explicit agreement to undergo a specific medical intervention - is an ethical concept based on the principle that all patients and research subjects should understand and agree to the potential consequences of the clinical care they receive.

In the United States, health among racial and ethnic minorities, as well as poor people, is significantly worse than the overall U.

In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explicit commitment to achieve universal health coverage by 2030.

Innovative medical devices have helped reduce the burden of illness and injury and improve the quality of life for countless children.

Increasing public investments in health care services for low-income and special needs children and adolescents in the United States have raised questions about whether these efforts improve their health outcomes.