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Public Health Implications of Raising the Minimum Age of Legal Access to Tobacco Products
Tobacco use by adolescents and young adults poses serious concerns. Nearly all adults who have ever smoked daily first tried a cigarette before 26 years of age. Current cigarette …
Nexus of Biofuels, Climate Change, and Human Health
Liquid fuels are a major part of modern life. They supply energy for ground, water, and air transportation as well as power for industrial and farming machinery. But fossil fuels - …
Health Impact Assessment of Shale Gas Extraction
Natural gas extraction from shale formations, which includes hydraulic fracturing, is increasingly in the news as the use of extraction technologies has expanded, rural communities …
Assessing the Use of Agent-Based Models for Tobacco Regulation
Tobacco consumption continues to be the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the manufacture, …
Monitoring HIV Care in the United States
In September 2010, the White House Office of National AIDS Policy commissioned an Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee to respond to a two-part statement of task concerning how to …
Exploring Opportunities for Collaboration Between Health and Education to Improve Population Health
Research based on decades of experience in the developing world has identified educational status, especially the status of the mother, as a major predictor of health outcomes and …
Veterans and Agent Orange
From 1962 to 1971, the U.S. military sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that could conceal opposition forces, to destroy crops that those forces might …
Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Cardiovascular Effects
Data suggest that exposure to secondhand smoke can result in heart disease in nonsmoking adults. Recently, progress has been made in reducing involuntary exposure to secondhand …
Population-Based Policy and Systems Change Approach to Prevent and Control Hypertension
Hypertension is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, affecting nearly one in three Americans. It is prevalent in adults and endemic in the older adult …
Quarantine Stations at Ports of Entry
To mitigate the risks posed by microbial threats of public health significance originating abroad, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) places small groups of staff …
Women's Health Research
Even though slightly over half of the U.S. population is female, medical research historically has neglected the health needs of women. However, over the past two decades, there …
U.S. Health in International Perspective
The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved …