Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
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Clearing the Smoke
Despite overwhelming evidence of tobacco's harmful effects and pressure from anti-smoking advocates, current surveys show that about one-quarter of all adults in the United States …
Measuring What Matters
The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act gives funding to cities, states, and other public and private entities to provide care and support services to …
Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Ground Beef
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is formulating risk assessments to identify important foodborne hazards; evaluate potential strategies to prevent, reduce, or …
Who Will Keep the Public Healthy?
In today's world the public faces many health threats from bioterrorism to the epidemic of obesity. It's thus important to have an effective public health system. This system …
Characterizing Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam
From 1962 to 1971, US military forces sprayed more than 19 million gallons of herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that helped conceal opposition forces, to …
Vaccine Safety Research, Data Access, and Public Trust
The Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) is a large, linked database of patient information that was developed jointly by CDC and several private managed care organizations in 1991. It …
Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory's Thyroid Function Study
During the 1950s, with the Cold War looming, military planners sought to know more about how to keep fighting forces fit and capable in the harsh Alaskan environment. In 1956 and …
Veterans and Agent Orange
From 1962 to 1971, US military forces sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that helped conceal opposition forces, to destroy crops that enemy forces …
Who Will Keep the Public Healthy?
Bioterrorism, drug--resistant disease, transmission of disease by global travel . . . theres no shortage of challenges facing Americas public health officials. Men and women …
Medicolegal Death Investigation System
The US Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice (NIJ) asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of The National Academies to conduct a workshop that would examine the …
Immunization Safety Review
By two years of age, healthy infants in the United States can receive up to 20 vaccinations to protect against 11 diseases. Although most people know that vaccines effectively …