@BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Upstream: Salmon and Society in the Pacific Northwest", isbn = "978-0-309-05325-9", abstract = "The importance of salmon to the Pacific Northwest\u2014economic, recreational, symbolic\u2014is enormous. Generations ago, salmon were abundant from central California through Idaho, Oregon, and Washington to British Columbia and Alaska. Now they have disappeared from about 40 percent of their historical range. The decline in salmon numbers has been lamented for at least 100 years, but the issue has become more widespread and acute recently.\nThe Endangered Species Act has been invoked, federal laws have been passed, and lawsuits have been filed. More than $1 billion has been spent to improve salmon runs\u2014and still the populations decline.\nIn this new volume a committee with diverse expertise explores the complications and conflicts surrounding the salmon problem\u2014starting with available data on the status of salmon populations and an illustrative case study from Washington state's Willapa Bay.\nThe book offers specific recommendations for salmon rehabilitation that take into account the key role played by genetic variability in salmon survival and the urgent need for habitat protection and management of fishing.\nThe committee presents a comprehensive discussion of the salmon problem, with a wealth of informative graphs and charts and the right amount of historical perspective to clarify today's issues, including:\n\n Salmon biology and geography\u2014their life's journey from fresh waters to the sea and back again to spawn, and their interaction with ecosystems along the way.\n The impacts of human activities\u2014grazing, damming, timber, agriculture, and population and economic growth. Included is a case study of Washington state's Elwha River dam removal project.\n Values, attitudes, and the conflicting desires for short-term economic gain and long-term environmental health. The committee traces the roots of the salmon problem to the extractive philosophy characterizing management of land and water in the West.\n The impact of hatcheries, which were introduced to build fish stocks but which have actually harmed the genetic variability that wild stocks need to survive.\n\nThis book offers something for everyone with an interest in the salmon issue\u2014policymakers and regulators in the United States and Canada; environmental scientists; environmental advocates; natural resource managers; commercial, tribal, and recreational fishers; and concerned residents of the Pacific Northwest.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/4976/upstream-salmon-and-society-in-the-pacific-northwest", year = 1996, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Vessel Navigation and Traffic Services for Safe and Efficient Ports and Waterways: Interim Report", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9262/vessel-navigation-and-traffic-services-for-safe-and-efficient-ports-and-waterways", year = 1996, 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", editor = "Michael A. Stoto and Cynthia Abel and Anne Dievler", title = "Healthy Communities: New Partnerships for the Future of Public Health", isbn = "978-0-309-05625-0", abstract = "The Future of Public Health, issued in 1988, set forth a vision of public health and a specific role for the governmental public health agency within that vision, including the mission and content of public health, and an organizational framework. In the eight years since the report was released, there has been a significant strengthening of practice in governmental public health agencies and other settings. Substantial social, demographic, and technological changes in recent years, however, have made it necessary to reexamine governmental public health agencies' efforts to improve the public's health. Drawing on the activities and discussions initiated by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Public Health, the current report addresses two critical public health issues that can greatly influence the opportunity for our public to be healthy as the United States enters a new century-(1) the relationship between public health agencies and managed care organizations, and (2) the role of the public health agency in the community-and their implications for the broader issues raised in The Future of Public Health.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5475/healthy-communities-new-partnerships-for-the-future-of-public-health", year = 1996, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Ellen M. Weissman", title = "Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health: Conceptual Framework and Community Experience", isbn = "978-0-309-05594-9", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5514/using-performance-monitoring-to-improve-community-health-conceptual-framework-and", year = 1996, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", title = "Improving the Medicare Market: Adding Choice and Protections, Summary", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9281/improving-the-medicare-market-adding-choice-and-protections-summary", year = 1996, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Molla S. Donaldson and Karl D. Yordy and Kathleen N. Lohr and Neal A. Vanselow", title = "Primary Care: America's Health in a New Era", isbn = "978-0-309-05399-0", abstract = "Ask for a definition of primary care, and you are likely to hear as many answers as there are health care professionals in your survey. Primary Care fills this gap with a detailed definition already adopted by professional organizations and praised at recent conferences. This volume makes recommendations for improving primary care, building its organization, financing, infrastructure, and knowledge base\u2014as well as developing a way of thinking and acting for primary care clinicians. Are there enough primary care doctors? Are they merely gatekeepers? Is the traditional relationship between patient and doctor outmoded? The committee draws conclusions about these and other controversies in a comprehensive and up-to-date discussion that covers:\n\n The scope of primary care.\n Its philosophical underpinnings.\n Its value to the patient and the community.\n Its impact on cost, access, and quality.\n\nThis volume discusses the needs of special populations, the role of the capitation method of payment, and more. Recommendations are offered for achieving a more multidisciplinary education for primary care clinicians. Research priorities are identified. Primary Care provides a forward-thinking view of primary care as it should be practiced in the new integrated health care delivery systems\u2014important to health care clinicians and those who train and employ them, policymakers at all levels, health care managers, payers, and interested individuals.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5152/primary-care-americas-health-in-a-new-era", year = 1996, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Stanley B. Jones and Marion Ein Lewin", title = "Improving the Medicare Market: Adding Choice and Protections", isbn = "978-0-309-05535-2", abstract = "Medicare beneficiaries are rapidly moving into managed care, as attempts to restrain the growth of this costly entitlement program progress.\nHowever, advocates for patients question whether the necessary information and structures are in place to enable Medicare consumers to select wisely among private-sector managed care options. Improving the Medicare Market examines how to give Medicare beneficiaries the same choice of health plan options enjoyed in the private sector\u2014yet protect them as consumers and patients.\nThis book recommends approaches to ensuring accountability and informed purchasing for Medicare beneficiaries in an environment of broader choice and managed care\u2014how the government should evaluate and approve plans, what role the traditional Medicare program should play, how to help to elderly understand their options, and many other practical matters.\nThe committee discusses the information requirements of Medicare beneficiaries and explores in detail how best to respond to their special needs. And it examines the procedures that should be developed to provide the necessary protections for the elderly in a managed care system.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5299/improving-the-medicare-market-adding-choice-and-protections", year = 1996, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Robert G. Petersdorf and William F. Page and Susan Thaul", title = "Interactions of Drugs, Biologics, and Chemicals in U.S. Military Forces", isbn = "978-0-309-05593-2", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5515/interactions-of-drugs-biologics-and-chemicals-in-us-military-forces", year = 1996, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Frederick J. Manning and Jeremiah A. Barondess", title = "Changing Health Care Systems and Rheumatic Disease", isbn = "978-0-309-05683-0", abstract = "Market forces are driving a radical restructuring of health care delivery in the United States. At the same time, more and more people are living comparatively long lives with a variety of severe chronic health conditions. Many such people are concerned about the trend toward the creation of managed care systems because their need for frequent, often complex, medical services conflicts with managed care's desires to contain costs. The fear is that people with serious chronic disorders will be excluded from or underserved by the integrated health care delivery networks now emerging. Responding to a request from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, this book reflects the results of a workshop that focused on the following questions:\n\n Does the model of managed care or an integrated delivery system influence the types of interventions provided to patients with chronic conditions and the clinical and health status outcomes resulting from those interventions?\n If so, are these effects quantitatively and clinically significant, as compared to the effects that other variables (e.g., income, education, ethnicity) have on patient outcomes?\n If the type of health care delivery system appears to be related to patient care and outcomes, can specific organizational, financial, or other variables be identified that account for the relationships?\n If not, what type of research should be pursued to provide the information needed about the relationship between types of health care systems and the processes and outcomes of care provided to people with serious chronic conditions?\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5472/changing-health-care-systems-and-rheumatic-disease", year = 1996, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Edward A. Dauer", title = "Blood Banking and Regulation: Procedures, Problems, and Alternatives", isbn = "978-0-309-05546-8", abstract = "This volume examines regulatory and policymaking procedures in blood banking, regulatory enforcement and compliance, innovations and alternatives in regulation, congressional oversight and regulatory initiatives, and investment in regulatory quality.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5310/blood-banking-and-regulation-procedures-problems-and-alternatives", year = 1996, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Shipbuilding Technology and Education", isbn = "978-0-309-05382-2", abstract = "The U.S. shipbuilding industry now confronts grave challenges in providing essential support of national objectives. With recent emphasis on renewal of the U.S. naval fleet, followed by the defense builddown, U.S. shipbuilders have fallen far behind in commercial ship construction, and face powerful new competition from abroad. This book examines ways to reestablish the U.S. industry, to provide a technology base and R&D infrastructure sustaining both commercial and military goals.\nComparing U.S. and foreign shipbuilders in four technological areas, the authors find that U.S. builders lag most severely in business process technologies, and in technologies of new products and materials. New advances in system technologies, such as simulation, are also needed, as are continuing developments in shipyard production technologies. The report identifies roles that various government agencies, academia, and, especially, industry itself must play for the U.S. shipbuilding industry to attempt a turnaround.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5064/shipbuilding-technology-and-education", year = 1996, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "The Role of Scientists in the Professional Development of Science Teachers", isbn = "978-0-309-10372-5", abstract = "Scientists nationwide are showing greater interest in contributing to the reform of science education, yet many do not know how to begin.\nThis highly readable book serves as a guide for those scientists interested in working on the professional development of K-12 science teachers. Based on information from over 180 professional development programs for science teachers, the volume addresses what kinds of activities work and why. Included are useful examples of programs focusing on issues of content and process in science teaching.\nThe authors present \"day-in-a-life\" vignettes, along with a suggested reading list, to help familiarize scientists with the professional lives of K-12 science teachers. The book also offers scientists suggestions on how to take first steps toward involvement, how to identify programs that have been determined effective by teachers, and how to become involved in system-wide programs. Discussions on ways of working with teachers on program design, program evaluation, and funding sources are included.\nAccessible and practical, this book will be a welcome resource for university, institutional, and corporate scientists; teachers; teacher educators; organizations; administrators; and parents.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2310/the-role-of-scientists-in-the-professional-development-of-science-teachers", year = 1996, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Gary D. Sandefur and Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barney Cohen", title = "Changing Numbers, Changing Needs: American Indian Demography and Public Health", isbn = "978-0-309-05548-2", abstract = "The reported population of American Indians and Alaska Natives has grown rapidly over the past 20 years. These changes raise questions for the Indian Health Service and other agencies responsible for serving the American Indian population. How big is the population? What are its health care and insurance needs?\nThis volume presents an up-to-date summary of what is known about the demography of American Indian and Alaska Native population\u2014their age and geographic distributions, household structure, employment, and disability and disease patterns. This information is critical for health care planners who must determine the eligible population for Indian health services and the costs of providing them. The volume will also be of interest to researchers and policymakers concerned about the future characteristics and needs of the American Indian population.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5355/changing-numbers-changing-needs-american-indian-demography-and-public-health", year = 1996, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Resources for Teaching Elementary School Science", isbn = "978-0-309-05293-1", abstract = "What activities might a teacher use to help children explore the life cycle of butterflies? What does a science teacher need to conduct a \"leaf safari\" for students? Where can children safely enjoy hands-on experience with life in an estuary? Selecting resources to teach elementary school science can be confusing and difficult, but few decisions have greater impact on the effectiveness of science teaching.\nEducators will find a wealth of information and expert guidance to meet this need in Resources for Teaching Elementary School Science. A completely revised edition of the best-selling resource guide Science for Children: Resources for Teachers, this new book is an annotated guide to hands-on, inquiry-centered curriculum materials and sources of help in teaching science from kindergarten through sixth grade. (Companion volumes for middle and high school are planned.)\nThe guide annotates about 350 curriculum packages, describing the activities involved and what students learn. Each annotation lists recommended grade levels, accompanying materials and kits or suggested equipment, and ordering information.\nThese 400 entries were reviewed by both educators and scientists to ensure that they are accurate and current and offer students the opportunity to:\n\n Ask questions and find their own answers.\n Experiment productively.\n Develop patience, persistence, and confidence in their own ability to solve real problems.\n\nThe entries in the curriculum section are grouped by scientific area\u2014Life Science, Earth Science, Physical Science, and Multidisciplinary and Applied Science\u2014and by type\u2014core materials, supplementary materials, and science activity books. Additionally, a section of references for teachers provides annotated listings of books about science and teaching, directories and guides to science trade books, and magazines that will help teachers enhance their students' science education.\nResources for Teaching Elementary School Science also lists by region and state about 600 science centers, museums, and zoos where teachers can take students for interactive science experiences. Annotations highlight almost 300 facilities that make significant efforts to help teachers.\nAnother section describes more than 100 organizations from which teachers can obtain more resources. And a section on publishers and suppliers give names and addresses of sources for materials.\nThe guide will be invaluable to teachers, principals, administrators, teacher trainers, science curriculum specialists, and advocates of hands-on science teaching, and it will be of interest to parent-teacher organizations and parents.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/4966/resources-for-teaching-elementary-school-science", year = 1996, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }