Books by Institute of Medicine

Mechanical ventilators and other respiratory support devices rescue thousands of fragile newborns every year. This book examines the food and drug administration's monitoring and use of adverse event reports, the postmarket surveillance of medical devices used with children, and more.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) workforce is highly skilled and employees frequently work under pressure to ensure mission success. The Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA requested that the Institute of Medicine review its occupational health programs. This work presents the committee's findings.

Evaluates the long-term, human health effects associated with exposure to selected environmental agents, pollutants, and synthetic chemical compounds believed to have been present during the Gulf War. This title reviews the literature on hydrogen sulfide, combustion products, hydrazine and red fuming nitric acid.

Public health officials and organizations around the world remain on high alert because of increasing concerns about the prospect of an influenza pandemic, which many experts believe to be inevitable. This title covers the workshop on pandemic influenza.

Building on the innovative Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, this book offers a strategy to address the quality challenges in rural communities. It also provides a framework for core set of services and essential infrastructure to deliver various services to rural communities.

Because of concerns about the veterans' health problems the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) requested that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) review the scientific and medical literature on the health effects of agents to which the Gulf War veterans may have been exposed. This report offers an overview of the toxicology of sarin and cyclosarin.

Given the trajectory toward a healthier childhood, we begin the 21st-century with a shocking development - an epidemic of obesity in children and youth. This book explores the causes of this health problem and the actions needed to initiate, support, and sustain the societal and lifestyle changes that can reverse the trend among our children.

Poisoning is a far more serious health problem in the US than has generally been recognized. This book recommends a poison control system with a strong public health infrastructure, a national system of regional poison control centers, and federal funding to support core poison control activities.

Examines the relationship between damp or moldy indoor environments and adverse health outcomes and discusses issues such as how and where buildings get wet. A review finds evidence of an association between damp indoor environments and some upper respiratory tract symptoms, such as coughing, wheezing, and asthma symptoms in sensitized persons.

Focusing its analysis on Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs), this book examines the purpose of nutrition labelling, various labelling practices in the US and Canada, and food fortification practices and policies. It also offers recommendations as a series of guiding principles to assist the regulatory agencies that oversee food labelling.

Reflects a wide-ranging effort to understand what we know about care at the end of life, what we have yet to learn, and what we know but do not adequately apply. This book seeks to build understanding of what constitutes good care for the dying and offers recommendations to decisionmakers that address specific barriers to achieving good care.

The primary purpose of fitness and body composition standards in the US Armed Forces has always been to select individuals best suited to the physical demands of military service, based on the assumption that proper body weight and composition supports good health, physical fitness, and appropriate military appearance.

The workshop on Educating Public Health Professionals was held May 22, 2003 and over 100 representatives attended. This report includes the workshop presentations, recommendations, workshop agendas, and more.

Presents some of the critical issues in responding to the psychological needs that result from terrorism and provides options for intervention. This book offers an example for a public health strategy to serve as a base from which plans to prevent and respond to the psychological consequences of a variety of terrorism events can be formulated.

Alcohol use by young people is extremely dangerous - both to themselves and society at large. Why is this dangerous behavior so pervasive? What can be done to prevent it? What will work? This work addresses these questions, and explores the ways in which different individuals and groups contribute to the problem and how they can be enlisted.

Academic health centres are facing changes that will impact their roles in education, research and patient care. This text explores how AHCs will need to consider how to redirect each of their roles so they are able to meet the challenges of health care.

Most industries have plunged into data automation, but health care organizations have lagged in moving patients' medical records from paper to computers. This book talks about the computer-based patient record (CPR) technology. It explores the potential of machine-readable CPRs to improve diagnostic and care decisions.

Useful for children in grades K-12, this volume provides broad recommendations for comprehensive school health programs CSHPs, with suggestions and guidelines for national, state, and local actions. It examines how communities can become involved, and explores models for CSHPs. It is for policymakers in health and education, teachers, and parents.