@BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Anthony DePinto", title = "Representing Lived Experience in the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool: Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief", abstract = "This new publication presents highlights of a June 2023 workshop that focused on a new geospatial tool developed by the White House Council on Environmental Quality to identify communities experiencing climate and economic burdens. The tool, called the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, will be used to guide federal investments to further the White House\u2019s Justice40 Initiative. The workshop explored how well data in the tool represents the lived experiences of historically marginalized and overburdened communities in the United States. \nParticipants included researchers, policy makers and community members from a wide range of regional, cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Topics discussed included potential data gaps, the impact of climate and economic burdens, regional differences in data, historical factors that affect community health and wellbeing, and other inputs to the tool that might help it accurately identify disadvantaged communities.This publication summarizes the presentation and discussion of the workshop.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27158/representing-lived-experience-in-the-climate-and-economic-justice-screening-tool", year = 2023, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Accounting for Health and Health Care: Approaches to Measuring the Sources and Costs of Their Improvement", isbn = "978-0-309-15679-0", abstract = "It has become trite to observe that increases in health care costs have become unsustainable. How best for policy to address these increases, however, depends in part on the degree to which they represent increases in the real quantity of medical services as opposed to increased unit prices of existing services. And an even more fundamental question is the degree to which the increased spending actually has purchased improved health.\n\nAccounting for Health and Health Care addresses both these issues. The government agencies responsible for measuring unit prices for medical services have taken steps in recent years that have greatly improved the accuracy of those measures. Nonetheless, this book has several recommendations aimed at further improving the price indices.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12938/accounting-for-health-and-health-care-approaches-to-measuring-the", year = 2010, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Christopher Mackie", title = "Strategies for a BEA Satellite Health Care Account: Summary of a Workshop", isbn = "978-0-309-12717-2", abstract = "In March 2008, the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies held a workshop to assist the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) with next steps as it develops plans to produce a satellite health care account. This account, designed to improve its measurement of economic activity in the medical care sector, will benefit health care policy. \nThe purpose of the workshop, summarized in this volume, was to elicit expert guidance on strategies to implement the objectives of the BEA program. The ultimate objectives of the program are to:\n\n compile medical care spending information by type of disease-a system more directly useful for measuring health care inputs, outputs, and productivity than current estimates of spending by type of provider;\n produce a comprehensive set of accounts for health care-sector income, expenditure, and product;\n develop medical care price and real output measures that will help analysts to break out changes in the delivery of health care from changes in the prices of that care;\n and coordinate BEA and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) health expenditure statistics.\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12494/strategies-for-a-bea-satellite-health-care-account-summary-of", year = 2009, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Lyly Luhachack and Natalie Armstrong", title = "Advances in Multimodal Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Environmental and Biomedical Data Integration: Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief", abstract = "The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, and biomedical big data holds promise to transform understanding of human health and disease. Driven by the increasing availability and ability to generate, collect, and analyze environmental and biomedical data along with advanced computing power, AI and machine learning (ML) applications are rapidly developing in research and health. To explore opportunities for leveraging emerging developments in AI and ML to advance multimodal data integration, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a workshop titled Advances in Multimodal Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Environmental and Biomedical Data Integration on June 14-15, 2023. The workshop focused on recent developments in AI and other data-driven approaches to integrate biomedical and environmental health data; the exploration of promising applications in human health and disease; and the ethical, social, and policy implications and challenges of health data collection and integration. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions of the workshop.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27202/advances-in-multimodal-artificial-intelligence-to-enhance-environmental-and-biomedical-data-integration", year = 2023, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Katharine G. Abraham and Christopher Mackie", title = "Beyond the Market: Designing Nonmarket Accounts for the United States", isbn = "978-0-309-09319-4", abstract = "The national income and product accounts that underlie gross domestic product\n(GDP), together with other key economic data\u2014price and employment statistics\u2014\nare widely used as indicators of how well the nation is doing. GDP, however, is\nfocused on the production of goods and services sold in markets and reveals relatively\nlittle about important production in the home and other areas outside of markets.\nA set of satellite accounts\u2014in areas such as health, education, volunteer and\nhome production, and environmental improvement or pollution\u2014would contribute\nto a better understanding of major issues related to economic growth and societal\nwell-being.\n\nBeyond the Market: Designing Nonmarket Accounts for the United States hopes to\nencourage social scientists to make further efforts and contributions in the analysis of\nnonmarket activities and in corresponding data collection and accounting systems.\nThe book illustrates new data sources and new ideas that have improved the\nprospects for progress.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11181/beyond-the-market-designing-nonmarket-accounts-for-the-united-states", year = 2005, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Joe Alper and Andrew Bremer and Anne Linn", title = "Leveraging Advances in Remote Geospatial Technologies to Inform Precision Environmental Health Decisions: Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief", abstract = "Leveraging Advances in Remote Geospatial Technologies to Inform Precision Environmental Health Decisions, a virtual workshop held on April 14-15, 2021, explored how advances in geospatial technologies can inform precision environmental health, the targeted public health interventions that reach the right populations at the right time. The workshop was organized by a planning committee of the Standing Committee on the Use of Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions, a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine program\nthat examines and discusses issues regarding the use of new science, tools, and methodologies for environmental health research and decisions. The workshop included plenary and scientific presentations that focused on technical advances and applications of remote\ngeospatial technologies in environmental health. The workshop was organized around three main sessions: leveraging geospatial technologies to advance environmental justice and health equity; personalizing exposure science to improve environmental health; and geospatial science for preparing for and responding to environmental disasters. The workshop's final session centered on breakout discussions on major cross-cutting themes including data availability; data integration;\ntraining and capacity building; and privacy and ethics.\nThis publication summarizes the presentation and discussion of the workshop.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26265/leveraging-advances-in-remote-geospatial-technologies-to-inform-precision-environmental-health-decisions", year = 2021, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Theresa M. Wizemann", title = "School Success: An Opportunity for Population Health: Proceedings of a Workshop", isbn = "978-0-309-49076-4", abstract = "Education and health care significantly influence well-being and health outcomes, especially throughout adolescence. In fact, doctors note that performance in school is highly reflective of a child's current and future health. Despite knowledge of this connection, pediatricians are rarely aware of their patients' school performance and have a limited understanding of the education system. Fostering collaboration and aligning efforts within the health and education sectors is a critical step towards building stronger and healthier communities. \n\nOn June 14, 2018, the National Academies convened a workshop to discuss how efforts within the health sector can support children's education from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade and to explore the barriers between these sectors. The committee also examined case examples of health-education collaboration and opportunities in policy. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25403/school-success-an-opportunity-for-population-health-proceedings-of-a", year = 2020, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Linda G. Martin and Beth J. Soldo", title = "Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Health of Older Americans", isbn = "978-0-309-05489-8", abstract = "Older Americans, even the oldest, can now expect to live years longer than those who reached the same ages even a few decades ago. Although survival has improved for all racial and ethnic groups, strong differences persist, both in life expectancy and in the causes of disability and death at older ages. This book examines trends in mortality rates and selected causes of disability (cardiovascular disease, dementia) for older people of different racial and ethnic groups.\nThe determinants of these trends and differences are also investigated, including differences in access to health care and experiences in early life, diet, health behaviors, genetic background, social class, wealth and income. Groups often neglected in analyses of national data, such as the elderly Hispanic and Asian Americans of different origin and immigrant generations, are compared. The volume provides understanding of research bearing on the health status and survival of the fastest-growing segment of the American population.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5237/racial-and-ethnic-differences-in-the-health-of-older-americans", year = 1997, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Christine Coussens", title = "Global Environmental Health: Research Gaps and Barriers for Providing Sustainable Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Services: Workshop Summary", isbn = "978-0-309-13179-7", abstract = "The issues surrounding water services are some of the most critical challenges facing not only the United States, but also the global community today. The Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine of the Institute of Medicine convened a workshop in October 2007, summarized in this volume, to address objectives related to Sustainable Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Services.\n\nOne of the objectives of the workshop was to think about the interdependence of environmental health and human health as connected through water. Organizations cannot discuss water without considering the interrelationship of sanitation and hygiene. It is the convergence of these strategies that promotes healthy outcomes for both individuals and the environment. \n\nA second objective of the workshop was to consider how planning, management, and interdisciplinary approaches-including technology, social behavioral issues, gender, health, environment, economic, and political aspects-can be integrated to arrive at sustainable solutions. Many organizations and agencies are trying to forge a path toward sustainable practices in water, but the various sectors utilizing and governing water services are not interconnected. More integration and a greater understanding of holistic approaches are needed. \n ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12597/global-environmental-health-research-gaps-and-barriers-for-providing-sustainable", year = 2009, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Contraception and Reproduction: Health Consequences for Women and Children in the Developing World", isbn = "978-0-309-04094-5", abstract = "This book examines how changes in reproductive patterns (such as the number and timing of births and spacing between births) have affected the health of women and children in the developing world. It reviews the relationships between contraceptive use, reproductive patterns, and health; the effects of differences and changes in reproductive patterns; as well as the role of family planning in women's fertility and health.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1421/contraception-and-reproduction-health-consequences-for-women-and-children-in", year = 1989, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Gillian J. Buckley and John E. Lange and E. Anne Peterson", title = "Investing in Global Health Systems: Sustaining Gains, Transforming Lives", isbn = "978-0-309-31169-4", abstract = "The United States has been a generous sponsor of global health programs for the past 25 years or more. This investment has contributed to meaningful changes, especially for women and children, who suffer the brunt of the world's disease and disability. Development experts have long debated the relative merits of vertical health programming, targeted to a specific service or patient group, and horizontal programming, supporting more comprehensive care. The U.S. government has invested heavily in vertical programs, most notably through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), its flagship initiative for HIV and AIDS. PEPFAR and programs like it have met with good success. Protecting these successes and continuing progress in the future depends on the judicious integration of vertical programs with local health systems.\nA strong health system is the best insurance developing countries can have against a disease burden that is shifting rapidly and in ways that history has not prepared us for. Reaching the poor with development assistance is an increasingly complicated task. The majority of the roughly 1 billion people living in dire poverty are in middle-income countries, where foreign assistance is not necessarily needed or welcome. Many of the rest live in fragile states, where political volatility and weak infrastructure make it difficult to use aid effectively. The poorest people in the world are also the sickest; they are most exposed to disease vectors and infection. Nevertheless, they are less likely to access health services. Improving their lot means removing the systemic barriers that keep the most vulnerable people from gaining such access.\nInvesting in Global Health Systems discusses the past and future of global health. First, the report gives context by laying out broad trends in global health. Next, it discusses the timeliness of American investment in health systems abroad and explains how functional health systems support health, encourage prosperity, and advance global security. Lastly, it lays out, in broad terms, an effective donor strategy for health, suggesting directions for both the manner and substance of foreign aid given. The challenge of the future of aid programming is to sustain the successes of the past 25 years, while reducing dependence on foreign aid. Investing in Global Health Systems aims to help government decision makers assess the rapidly changing social and economic situation in developing countries and its implications for effective development assistance. This report explains how health systems improvements can lead to better health, reduce poverty, and make donor investment in health sustainable.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18940/investing-in-global-health-systems-sustaining-gains-transforming-lives", year = 2014, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Suzanne Wymelenberg", title = "Science and Babies: Private Decisions, Public Dilemmas", isbn = "978-0-309-04136-2", abstract = "By all indicators, the reproductive health of Americans has been deteriorating since 1980. Our nation is troubled by rates of teen pregnancies and newborn deaths that are worse than almost all others in the Western world.\nScience and Babies is a straightforward presentation of the major reproductive issues we face that suggests answers for the public.\nThe book discusses how the clash of opinions on sex and family planning prevents us from making a national commitment to reproductive health; why people in the United States have fewer contraceptive choices than those in many other countries; what we need to do to improve social and medical services for teens and people living in poverty; how couples should \"shop\" for a fertility service and make consumer-wise decisions; and what we can expect in the future\u2014featuring interesting accounts of potential scientific advances.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1453/science-and-babies-private-decisions-public-dilemmas", year = 1990, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Anna Nicholson and Tamara Haag", title = "U.S. Health Care Expenditures: Costs, Lessons, and Opportunities: Proceedings of a Workshop", isbn = "978-0-309-27515-6", abstract = "The Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, a convening activity of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, held a workshop on March 15-16, 2021, to explore issues related to increasing health care spending in the United States. The workshop, U.S. Health Care Expenditures: Costs, Lessons, and Opportunities, was organized to highlight the persisting challenge of health care expenditures that are not commensurate with the health outcomes they produce. This publication summarizes the presentation and discussion of the workshop.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26425/us-health-care-expenditures-costs-lessons-and-opportunities-proceedings-of", year = 2023, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Eric T. Smith", title = "Preemption of Worker-Retention and Labor-Peace Agreements at Airports", abstract = "TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Legal Research Digest 31: Preemption of Worker-Retention and Labor-Peace Agreements at Airports serves as an overview of issues related to labor-harmony or labor-peace agreements for airport management personnel and other interested personnel, including airport authority board members or elected officials. These agreements generally require that, as a condition of operating on-airport property, an organization must become signatory to some form of an agreement with a labor organization. These matters are usually injected into the conduct of on-airport business by the sponsor, including certain contractual language in the agreements between the sponsor and the business. The implications of involving the airport in such matters may be dramatic, far-reaching, and fraught with legal entanglements. This is especially true with respect to labor-harmony or labor-peace agreements.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/24692/preemption-of-worker-retention-and-labor-peace-agreements-at-airports", year = 2017, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Robert J. Katt", title = "Applying Materials State Awareness to Condition-Based Maintenance and System Life Cycle Management: Summary of a Workshop", isbn = "978-0-309-37932-8", abstract = "In August 2014, the committee on Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure convened a workshop to discuss issues related to applying materials state awareness to condition-based maintenance and system life cycle management. The workshop was structured around three focal topics: (1) advances in metrology and experimental methods, (2) advances in physics-based models for assessment, and (3) advances in databases and diagnostic technologies. This report summarizes the discussions and presentations from this workshop.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/21821/applying-materials-state-awareness-to-condition-based-maintenance-and-system-life-cycle-management", year = 2016, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", title = "Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health: Exploring the Issues", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9137/using-performance-monitoring-to-improve-community-health-exploring-the-issues", year = 1996, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine and National Research Council", title = "Evaluating Occupational Health and Safety Research Programs: Framework and Next Steps", isbn = "978-0-309-13795-9", abstract = "Each year, approximately 5,000 fatal work-related injuries and 4 million non-fatal injuries and illnesses occur in the United States. This number represents both unnecessary human suffering and high economic costs. In order to assist in better evaluating workplace safety and create safer work environments, the Institute of Medicine conducted a series of evaluations of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) research programs, assessing the relevance and impact of NIOSH's work on improving worker safety and health.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12639/evaluating-occupational-health-and-safety-research-programs-framework-and-next", year = 2009, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Crossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide", isbn = "978-0-309-47789-5", abstract = "In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explicit commitment to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. However, enormous gaps remain between what is achievable in human health and where global health stands today, and progress has been both incomplete and unevenly distributed. In order to meet this goal, a deliberate and comprehensive effort is needed to improve the quality of health care services globally.\nCrossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide focuses on one particular shortfall in health care affecting global populations: defects in the quality of care. This study reviews the available evidence on the quality of care worldwide and makes recommendations to improve health care quality globally while expanding access to preventive and therapeutic services, with a focus in low-resource areas.\nCrossing the Global Quality Chasm emphasizes the organization and delivery of safe and effective\ncare at the patient\/provider interface. This study explores issues of access to services and commodities, effectiveness, safety, efficiency, and equity. Focusing on front line service delivery that can directly impact health outcomes for individuals and populations, this book will be an essential guide for key stakeholders, governments, donors, health systems, and others involved in health care.\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25152/crossing-the-global-quality-chasm-improving-health-care-worldwide", year = 2018, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Susan C. Scrimshaw and Emily P. Backes", title = "Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, and Choice", isbn = "978-0-309-66982-5", abstract = "The delivery of high quality and equitable care for both mothers and newborns is complex and requires efforts across many sectors. The United States spends more on childbirth than any other country in the world, yet outcomes are worse than other high-resource countries, and even worse for Black and Native American women. There are a variety of factors that influence childbirth, including social determinants such as income, educational levels, access to care, financing, transportation, structural racism and geographic variability in birth settings. It is important to reevaluate the United States' approach to maternal and newborn care through the lens of these factors across multiple disciplines.\nBirth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, and Choice reviews and evaluates maternal and newborn care in the United States, the epidemiology of social and clinical risks in pregnancy and childbirth, birth settings research, and access to and choice of birth settings.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25636/birth-settings-in-america-outcomes-quality-access-and-choice", year = 2020, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Joe Alper and Alexandra Andrada and Andrew Bremer and Marilee Shelton-Davenport", title = "The Interplay Between Environmental Exposures and Mental Health Outcomes: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief", abstract = "Mounting evidence shows that the environment can play an important role in mental health, yet comparatively few studies have focused on the mental or behavioral health outcomes of environmental stressors. The Interplay Between Environmental Exposures and Mental Health Outcomes, a virtual workshop held on February 2-3, 2021, provided mental health and environmental health research experts from government, academia, and the private sector with the opportunity to explore emerging research on the relationships between environmental exposures and mental health. Workshop presentations covered a broad array of the diverse makeup of environmental exposures, including those that are chemical, biological, or physical, and either natural or human-made in origin. Furthermore, while the historical definition of an environmental exposure refers to a contact that causes a negative health effect, some presenters highlighted how a person's environment can lead to positive mental health outcomes. Workshop participants also discussed approaches to better integrate mental and behavioral health into multidisciplinary considerations of environmental health; considered how mental and behavioral health impacts could become part of environmental risk assessments and public health choices; and highlighted new tools and technologies to assess ways in which the environment can affect mental health. This Proceedings of a Workshop-in Brief provides the rapporteurs' high-level summary of the topics addressed in the workshop and suggestions provided by workshop participants for ways of integrating mental and behavioral health research and environmental research.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26201/the-interplay-between-environmental-exposures-and-mental-health-outcomes-proceedings", year = 2021, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }