Public health and preventive medicine

Scholarsand adults in generalhave pondered for centuries the mysterious processes that influence the ways in which children gradually become adults.

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.

HIV is spreading rapidly, and effective treatments continue to elude science.

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

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.

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Research conducted over the past two decades has shown that poor patient understanding of medication instructions is an important contributor to the more than 1 million medication errors and adverse drug events that lead to office and emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and even death.

Solving the world's health challenges requires multidisciplinary collaborations that bring together the talents, experiences, resources, and ideas from multiple sectors.

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 purpose of this regional workshop in the Southeast was to broaden the environmental health perspective from its typical focus on environmental toxicology to a view that included the impact of the natural, built, and social environments on human health.

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

On January 20, 2015, President Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) in his State of the Union address.

Childhood obesity is a serious health problem that has adverse and long-lasting consequences for individuals, families, and communities.

Physical activity has far-reaching benefits for physical, mental, emotional, and social health and well-being for all segments of the population.

The fragmented information that consumers receive about the nutritional value and health risks associated with fish and shellfish can result in confusion or misperceptions about these food sources.

Every aspect of immune function and host defense is dependent upon a proper supply and balance of nutrients.

More than 50 million Americans, one out of five, suffer from hay fever, asthma, and other allergic diseases.

The Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are quantitative estimates of nutrient intakes to be used for planning and assessing diets for apparently healthy people.

Almost all homes, apartments, and commercial buildings will experienceleaks, flooding, or other forms of excessive indoor dampness at some point.

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More than 16 million children in the United States live in food-insecure households where they are unable to obtain enough food to meet their needs.

Although the general public in the United States assumes children to be generally healthy and thriving, a substantial and growing number of children have at least one chronic health condition.

In 1997, the Institute of Medicine published a report entitled Non-Heart- Beating Organ Transplantation: Medical and Ethical Issues in Procurement.

There are numerous reasons to hasten the introduction of new and improved contraceptivesfrom health concerns about the pill to the continuing medical liability crisis.

In recent public workshops and working group meetings, the Forum on Microbial Threats of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has examined a variety of infectious disease outbreaks with pandemic potential, including those caused by influenza (IOM, 2005) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) (IOM, 2004).

In October 2004 the Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases of Shaheed Beheshti University hosted in Tehran an Iranian-American workshop on Food Safety and Surveillance Systems for Foodborne Diseases.

Obesity has come to the forefront of the American public health agenda.

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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.

A virtual workshop series titled Approaches to Assessing Intake of Food and Dietary Supplements in Pregnant Women and Children 2 to 11 Years of Age was convened in May, 2021 by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

What information is available to inform the planning of a nutrition research agenda for the United States and Canada?

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 countries, such as Japan and Australia.

Chronic pain costs the nation up to $635 billion each year in medical treatment and lost productivity.

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Recommendations for feeding infants and young children have changed substantially over time owing to scientific advances, cultural influences, societal trends, and other factors.

There is increasing evidence that civic participation - from voting to volunteering - is a social driver of health.

Scholarsand adults in generalhave pondered for centuries the mysterious processes that influence the ways in which children gradually become adults.

The issues surrounding water services are some of the most critical challenges facing not only the United States, but also the global community today.

The twentieth century witnessed an era of unprecedented, large-scale, anthropogenic changes to the natural environment.

Ever since the United States began producing and testing nuclear weapons during World War II, the effects of ionizing radiation on human health and the environment have been a serious public concern.

Immunization is essential to disease prevention efforts in public health, but the nation's immunization system faces financing challenges that are affecting the delivery of services.

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.

Since 1990, when the last guidelines for weight gain during pregnancy were issued, the average body weight of women entering their childbearing years has increased considerably, with a greater percentage of these women now classified as overweight or obese.

The number of people infected with HIV or living with AIDS is increasing at unprecedented rates as various scientists, organizations, and institutions search for innovative solutions to combating and preventing the disease.

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

One in five people in the United States had a sexually transmitted infection (STI) on any given day in 2018, totaling nearly 68 million estimated infections.

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.

This report, which was developed by an expert committee of the Institute of Medicine, reviews the first three services listed above.

Risk assessment has become a dominant public policy tool for making choices, based on limited resources, to protect public health and the environment.

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