Veterans are more likely than non-veterans to experience pain, trauma, and mental health challeng...

Veterans are more likely than non-veterans to experience pain, trauma, and mental health challeng...

Military personnel, who are often exposed to a variety of hazards while deployed, have expressed ...

Vaccine Risk Monitoring and Evaluation at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Biological threats like SARS and natural disasters like the tsunami in Indonesia have devastated ...

'Smoking-related diseases kill more Americans than alcohol, illegal drugs, murder and suicide com...

Over the past several decades, the public and private sectors made significant investments in glo...

'Rural counties make up about 80 percent of the land area of the United States, but they contain ...

On December 5, 2019, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of...

'The field of health literacy has evolved from one focused on individuals to one that recognizes ...

'Although health literacy is commonly defined as an individual trait, it does not depend on the s...

'The COVID-19 pandemic spurred a rapid expansion of wastewater-based infectious disease surveilla...

-The Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Health Literacy convened a 1-day public workshop to expl...

In March 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop to e...

'Young people develop health literacy skills in a variety of environments, facing critical thinki...

'Beginning in 1979 and in each subsequent decades, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Servic...

On January 20, 2015, President Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) in his Sta...

'Black men are increasingly underrepresented in medical schools and in the medical profession. A ...

'Disasters tend to cross political, jurisdictional, functional, and geographic boundaries. As a r...

The United States faces an alarmingly high rate of maternal morbidity and mortality, distinguishi...

Making Eye Health a Population Health Imperative

Substance use disorder (SUD) and opioid use disorder are significant public health threats that a...

Implications of the California Wildfires for Health, Communities, and Preparedness

'Autoimmune diseases occur when the body's immune system malfunctions and mistakenly attacks heal...

When disaster strikes, it rarely impacts just one jurisdiction. Many catastrophic disaster plans ...

On February 5, 2015, the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Population Health Improvement hosted...

The focus of Nationwide Response Issues After an Improvised Nuclear Device Attack: Medical and Pu...

The U.S. National Climate Assessment identified a number of ways in which climate change is affec...

'In September 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a worksh...

In 2009 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) began to assess the need for better-defined medical and p...

'Health literacy has been shown to affect health outcomes. The use of preventive services improve...

'Approximately 80 million adults in the United States have low health literacy - an individual's ...

This book is the third in a series of five brief reports that aim to inform ASPE analyses that ac...

Despite having the costliest medical care delivery system in the world, Americans are not particu...

Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Cardiovascular Effects reviews the literature regarding legislation...

Health literacy is the degree to which one can understand and make decisions based on health info...

'One of the many benefits of the U.S. food system is a safe, nutritious, and consistent food supp...

Nearly nine out of 10 adults have difficulty using everyday health information to make good healt...

Building on previous National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshops that exp...

Since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), health care reform has...

From 1962 to 1971, the U.S. military sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle ca...

'Research based on decades of experience in the developing world has identified educational statu...

Public health efforts have resulted in tremendous improvements in the health of individuals and c...

'The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop on August 22-23, 2...

'The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Quality Measures for the Healthy People Leading Hea...

'Engaging the Public in Critical Disaster Planning and Decision Making is the summary of a worksh...

SMART Vaccines - Strategic Multi-Attribute Ranking Tool for Vaccines - is a prioritization softwa...