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Beyond Six Billion
Is rapid world population growth actually coming to an end? As population growth and its consequences have become front-page issues, projections of slowing growth from such …
Knowing What Works in Health Care
There is currently heightened interest in optimizing health care through the generation of new knowledge on the effectiveness of health care services. The United States must …
Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs
How should the war on drugs be fought? Everyone seems to agree that the United States ought to use a combination of several different approaches to combat the destructive effects …
Antarctica
Antarctica is the center from which all surrounding continental bodies separated millions of years ago. Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World, reinforces the importance of …
Evaluating Military Advertising and Recruiting
It is anticipated that in the coming decade the Department of Defense (DoD) will field and test new advertising and recruiting initiatives designed to improve the recruiting …
Crossing the Quality Chasm
Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more …
America Becoming
The 20th Century has been marked by enormous change in terms of how we define race. In large part, we have thrown out the antiquated notions of the 1800s, giving way to a more …
Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation
Clinical practice related to sleep problems and sleep disorders has been expanding rapidly in the last few years, but scientific research is not keeping pace. Sleep apnea, …
Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity
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 …
Saving Women's Lives
The outlook for women with breast cancer has improved in recent years. Due to the combination of improved treatments and the benefits of mammography screening, breast cancer …
Effects of Past Global Change on Life
What can we expect as global change progresses? Will there be thresholds that trigger sudden shifts in environmental conditions?or that cause catastrophic destruction of life? …
Hospital-Based Emergency Care
Today our emergency care system faces an epidemic of crowded emergency departments, patients boarding in hallways waiting to be admitted, and daily ambulance diversions. …