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.
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.
Recommendations for feeding infants and young children have changed substantially over time owing to scientific advances, cultural influences, societal trends, and other factors.
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.
Es un texto que pretende, en forma práctica, encaminar al estudiante en el conocimiento de las diferentes áreas de la dermatología, incluyendo aspectos muy importantes como sería el de la fisiología de la piel, muy poco incluida en la enseñanza de la dermatología a nivel universitario y olvidada por completo en la programación oficial de esta asignatura, en cualquiera de las facultades de medicina del país.
Health literacythe ability for individuals to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services to facilitate appropriate health decisionsis increasingly recognized as an important facet of health care and health outcomes.
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.
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 federal and state partnership in supporting immunization programs that benefit the general population evolved over the last half of the 20th century from a simple cost-sharing arrangement for vaccine purchase for disadvantaged children to a more complicated mix of programs, health care coverage benefits, and public-private partnerships.
Preparedness, Response and Recovery Considerations for Children and Families is the summary of a workshop convened in June, 2013 by the Institute of Medicine Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events to discuss disaster preparedness, response, and resilience relative to the needs of children and families, including children with special health care needs.
As women of childbearing age have become heavier, the trade-off between maternal and child health created by variation in gestational weight gain has become more difficult to reconcile.
In response to a request from Congress, the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conducted a study comparing the process to develop the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025 (DGA 2020-2025) to recommendations included in the previously published National Academies report, Redesigning the Process for Establishing the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Leadership Development of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice is an edited compilation of chapters written by international medical and health professional experts.
Dietary assessment in older adults presents many unique problems due to the diversity of health states and capabilities that span the population group.
This book provides an overview of the field of Equine-Assisted Therapy and Learning and gives a powerful account of a research study charting the experiences of seven 'at-risk' young people attending a pioneering Therapeutic Horsemanship centre in the UK.
Es un libro realizado con gran esfuerzo por parte de sus editoresEsta nueva edición, la tercera, cuenta con 48 capítulos revisados por diferentes autores reconocidos en nuestro medio, los cuales han consignado los nuevos conceptos que en este momento prevalecen en nuestra ciencia médica, la cual se encuentra en cambio constante.
This is the first book to examine how effectively American and supranational EU governments have regulated innovative pharmaceuticals during the last 30 years regarding public health.
An invaluable new textbook of pediatric anesthesiology-modeled after the bestselling Morgan and Mikhail's Clinical AnesthesiologyDoody's Core Titles for 2021!
Regenerative medicine, encompassing stem cells and tissue engineering, has attracted huge interest within commercial, clinical and government circles, and promises to change medicine itself.
Este libro contiene resultados de un trabajo de investigación que resuelve un problema de respuesta efectiva y resolutiva en la prestación de servicios de salud para el modelo Colombiano.
En una época en la que solo se habla de salud y sanidad para reclamar más infraestructuras, más prestaciones, más servicios, más profesionales, más, más, …, se hace preciso hacer una parada para poner en el centro el valor de los sistemas públicos de salud en un momento en el que, tras la destrucción de todo lo que los rodea (precarización laboral, emergencia climática, crisis de cuidados, …), son vistos como el siguiente reto de las dinámicas de captura de lo público.
Quality Management and Managerialism in Healthcare creates a comprehensive and systematic international survey of various perspectives on healthcare quality management together with some of their most pertinent critiques.
This collection of six papers on the role of quantitative risk assessment in the promulgation of recent regulatory standards represents the latest contribution to a series of volumes published by Lester Lave and the Brookings Institution on regulatory decisionmaking.
