National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, Olivia C. Y...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Care Services, Carol Mason Spicer, Bernice X. Chu, Paul A. Volberding
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Committee on the Impact of Social Media on Adolescent Health, Alexis Wojtowicz, Gillian J. Buckle
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Forum for Children's Well-Being: Promoting Cognitive, Affective, and Be...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Committee on a Blueprint for a National Prevention Infrastructure for Behavioral Hea
Mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) disorders, including mental illness and substance use disorders, affect every U.S. population group, community, and neighborhood. Existing infrastructure focuses more on responding to MEB crises, through treat...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Care Services, National Cancer Policy Forum, Sharyl Nass, Theresa Wizemann, Francis Amankwah
Population-based cancer surveillance has a pivotal role in assessing the nations progress in cancer control and helps inform research and care interventions aimed at reducing the burden of cancer on patients and communities, including the ability t...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, Olivia C. Y...
Alzheimers disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD), a collection of neurodegenerative conditions, take a heavy physical, emotional, and financial toll on individuals, families, and communities. Developing effective strategies for preventing and tre...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Care Services, National Cancer Policy Forum, Sharyl Nass, Anne Johnson, Laurene Graig, Erin Balogh...
Social determinants of health, including factors such as the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age; their education and income; and many other elements can influence their likelihood of developing cancer, the type of cancer,...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Care Services, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Commi...
Ensuring every child is on an optimal trajectory to a healthy and productive adulthood is imperative for the nations future. Investments in children and families improves child health, but also health equity, education outcomes, workforce productiv...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Care Services, National Cancer Policy Forum, Sharyl Nass, Theresa Wizemann, Erin Balogh
2023 marked the 10-year anniversary of the National Academies Institute of Medicine consensus report, Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis. The National Cancer Policy Forum and the American Society of C...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Board on Health Care Services, National Cancer Policy Forum, Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, an...
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are collaborations among public and private entities (e.g., government agencies, research institutions, nonprofit organizations, and industry organizations) that bring together diverse expertise, resources, and per...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Care Services, Board on Global Health, Allison Boman, Adrienne Formentos, Ruth Cooper
With recent medical, technological, and socioeconomic developments, people are living longer. The rising average age of the worlds population presents an opportunity to develop health policy that prioritizes functioning as a goal of healthy aging....Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Care Services, Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders, Sharyl J. Nass, Marian Flaxman, Melissa Maitin-Shepard, Alexandra Andrada...
At the request of the Health Resources and Services Administration, the National Academies Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders hosted a public workshop in April 2024 to explore mental health care services related to anxiety and mood d...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, Board on Health Care Services, National Cancer Po
Patients living with and beyond cancer often require care from a wide range of clinicians as they navigate cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship care. To examine opportunities to improve equitable access to high-quality multispecialty and mu...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Care Services, Carol Mason Spicer, Bernice X. Chu, Paul A. Volberding
Since the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in early 2020, many individuals infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), have continued to experience lingering sy...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation, Board on Health Care Services, National Cancer...
The use of immune modulator therapeutics, a type of immunotherapy enhancing the body immune system response to cancer, was perceived as the beginning of a new era in cancer care. While still important and frequently used, some of these therapeutics...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Computer Science and Telecommuni
The convergence of imaging, pathology, and laboratory testing data, augmented with information technology, is referred to as integrated diagnostics. To examine the current state of the science and strategies to facilitate precision cancer care throu...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Food and Nutrition Board, Committee on the Role of Seafood Consumption on Child Growth and Development
Seafood--including marine and freshwater fish, mollusks, and crustaceans--is a healthy food choice, but it can also contain contaminants. It is currently unclear how much seafood children or pregnant and lactating women are consuming, and what impac...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Life Sciences, Board on Global Health, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Committee on t
At the request of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, the National Academies convened a committee to examine lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and mpox multi-country outbreak to inform an evaluation of the state of s...Loe edasi...
The National Academies Food Forum hosted a public workshop in August 2023 that explored the state of the science on the linkages between dietary patterns and diet-related chronic disease across the lifespan. Workshop presenters looked at dietary ass...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Board on Global Health, Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders, Forum on Microbial Threat
The National Academies Forum on Microbial Threats and Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders hosted a hybrid public workshop in June 2023 to explore opportunities to advance research and treatment of infection-associated chronic illnesse...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Committee on the Impact of Social Media on Adolescent Health, Alexis Wojtowicz, Gillian J. Buckle
Social media has been fully integrated into the lives of most adolescents in the U.S., raising concerns among parents, physicians, public health officials, and others about its effect on mental and physical health. Over the past year, an ad hoc comm...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, Katherine Lynch, Vinu Ilakkuvan
Young people often engage and lead efforts to improve the social, economic, and environmental factors that influence the health and equity of communities and the nation. The National Academies Roundtable on Population Health Improvement hosted a hyb...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Care Services, Committee on the Identification and Prognosis of Low Birth Weight Babies in Disability Determinations, Austen Ap
Approximately 3.6 million live births occur every year in the United States. Between 8 and 9 percent of infants are born with low birth weight (LBW), defined by the medical community as less than 2,500 grams or 5.5 pounds at birth. While most infant...Loe edasi...
