@BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Measuring Health Performance in the Public Sector: A Summary of Two Reports", isbn = "978-0-309-06583-2", abstract = "The Panel on Performance Measures and Data for Public Health Performance Partnership Grants was established at the request of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Its charge is to examine the state of the art in performance measurement for public health and to recommend measures that could be used to monitor the Performance Partnership Grant agreements to be negotiated between each state and the federal government. The panel was asked to consider performance measures in ten areas, which are clearly a subset of the full range of traditional public health concerns: chronic diseases; sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, and tuberculosis; mental health; immunization; substance abuse; and three areas of prevention of special interest to DHHS-sexual assault, disabilities, and emergency medical services. This report focuses on measures that states and the federal government can use over the next 3 to 5 years to negotiate agreements and monitor performance in these areas. A later report will examine additional measures that might be developed from new research findings on program effectiveness or as improvements are made to state and federal surveys and data systems.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9603/measuring-health-performance-in-the-public-sector-a-summary-of", year = 1999, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Andrea L. Solarz", title = "Lesbian Health: Current Assessment and Directions for the Future", isbn = "978-0-309-06567-2", abstract = "Women's health, as a field of study, is a developing discipline. Health theories in general have been based on studies of men. However, in recent years, more attention has shifted to women's health, realizing the disparities between men and women in relation to their health. During the last two decades, a similar shift has occurred for a group of women\u2014lesbian women\u2014to further identify and specify their health needs.\nOver the past decade, lesbians have organized to call for attention to the health issues of this community, resulting in several federally funded research initiatives. This book offers a comprehensive view of what is known about lesbian health needs and what questions need further investigation, including:\n\n How do we define who is lesbian?\n Are there unique health issues for lesbians?\n Are lesbians at higher or lower risk for such health problems as AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, breast cancer, mental disorders, and substance abuse?\n How does homophobia affect lesbian health and the funding of research on lesbian health?\n How do lesbian health needs fit into the health care system and the larger society?\n What risk and protective factors shape the physical and mental health of lesbians?\n\nThe book discusses how to determine which questions to ask about sexual orientation, the need to obtain information without violating privacy, the importance of considering racial and ethnic diversity in the study of lesbians, strategies for exchanging information among researchers and disseminating findings to the public, and mechanisms for supporting greater numbers of researchers.\nLesbian Health takes a frank look at the political pressures, community attitudes, and professional concerns uniquely affecting the study of lesbian health issues. The book explores many other issues including the potential for transferring findings in this field to other population groups, including other rare populations and women in general.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6109/lesbian-health-current-assessment-and-directions-for-the-future", year = 1999, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Carole A. Chrvala and Roger J. Bulger", title = "Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2010: Final Report", isbn = "978-0-309-06539-9", abstract = "Healthy People is the nation's agenda for health promotion and disease prevention. The concept, first established in 1979 in a report prepared by the Office of the Surgeon General, has since been revised on a regular basis, and the fourth iteration, known as Healthy People 2010 will take the nation into the 21st century. Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2010: Final Report contains a number of recommendations and suggestions for the Department of Health and Human Services that address issues relevant to the composition of leading health indicator sets, data collection, data analysis, effective dissemination strategies, health disparities, and application of the indicators across multiple jurisdictional levels.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9436/leading-health-indicators-for-healthy-people-2010-final-report", year = 1999, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Risk Assessment of Radon in Drinking Water", isbn = "978-0-309-06292-3", abstract = "The Safe Drinking Water Act directs the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate the quality of drinking water, including its concentration of radon, an acknowledged carcinogen.\nThis book presents a valuable synthesis of information about the total inhalation and ingestion risks posed by radon in public drinking water, including comprehensive reviews of data on the transfer of radon from water to indoor air and on outdoor levels of radon in the United States. It also presents a new analysis of a biokinetic model developed to determine the risks posed by ingestion of radon and reviews inhalation risks and the carcinogenesis process. The volume includes scenarios for quantifying the reduction in health risk that might be achieved by a program to reduce public exposure to radon.\nRisk Assessment of Radon in Drinking Water, reflecting research and analysis mandated by 1996 amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act, provides comment on a variety of methods to reduce radon entry into homes and to reduce the concentrations of radon in indoor air and in water. The models, analysis, and reviews of literature contained in this book are intended to provide information that EPA will need to set a new maximum contaminant level, as it is required to do in 2000.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6287/risk-assessment-of-radon-in-drinking-water", year = 1999, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", title = "Toward Environmental Justice: Research, Education, and Health Policy Needs", isbn = "978-0-309-06407-1", abstract = "Driven by community-based organizations and supported by a growing body of literature, the environmental justice movement contends that poor and minority populations are burdened with more than their share of toxic waste, pesticide runoff, and other hazardous byproducts of our modern economic life.\nIs environmental degradation worse in poor and minority communities? Do these communities suffer more adverse health effects as a result? The committee addresses these questions and explores how current fragmentation in health policy could be replaced with greater coordination among federal, state, and local parties.\nThe book is highlighted with case studies from five locations where the committee traveled to hear citizen and researcher testimony. It offers detailed examinations in these areas:\n\n Identifying environmental hazards and assessing risk for populations of varying ethnic, social, and economic backgrounds, and the need for methodologies that uniquely suit the populations at risk.\n Identifying basic, clinical, and occupational research needs and meeting challenges to research on minorities.\n Expanding environmental education from an ecological focus to a public health focus for all levels of health professionals.\n Legal and ethical aspects of environmental health issues.\n\nThe book makes recommendations to decision-makers in the areas of public health, research, and education of health professionals and outlines health policy considerations.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6034/toward-environmental-justice-research-education-and-health-policy-needs", year = 1999, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Review of the Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Disposal Program: Disposal of Chemical Agent Identification Sets", isbn = "978-0-309-06879-6", abstract = "This study is a review and evaluation of the U.S. Army's Report to Congress on Alternative Approaches for the Treatment and Disposal of Chemical Agent Identification Sets (CAIS). CAIS are test kits that were used to train soldiers from 1928 to 1969 in defensive responses to a chemical attack. They contain samples of chemicals that had been or might have been used by opponents as chemical warfare agents. The Army's baseline approach for treating and disposing of CAIS has been to develop a mobile treatment system, called the Rapid Response System (RRS), which can be carried by several large over-the-road trailers.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9731/review-of-the-army-non-stockpile-chemical-materiel-disposal-program", year = 1999, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Water for the Future: The West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel, and Jordan", isbn = "978-0-309-06421-7", abstract = "This book is the result of a joint research effort led by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and involving the Royal Scientific Society of Jordan, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the Palestine Health Council. It discusses opportunities for enhancement of water supplies and avoidance of overexploitation of water resources in the Middle East. Based on the concept that ecosystem goods and services are essential to maintaining water quality and quantity, the book emphasizes conservation, improved use of current technologies, and water management approaches that are compatible with environmental quality.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6031/water-for-the-future-the-west-bank-and-gaza-strip", year = 1999, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Carole A. Chrvala, Ph.D. and Steven Sharfstein, M.D.", title = "Definition of Serious and Complex Medical Conditions", isbn = "978-0-309-06640-2", abstract = "In response to a request by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), the Institute of Medicine proposed a study to examine definitions of serious or complex medical conditions and related issues. A seven-member committee was appointed to address these issues. Throughout the course of this study, the committee has been aware of the fact that the topic addressed by this report concerns one of the most critical issues confronting HCFA, health care plans and providers, and patients today. The Medicare+Choice regulations focus on the most vulnerable populations in need of medical care and other services\u2014those with serious or complex medical conditions. Caring for these highly vulnerable populations poses a number of challenges. The committee believes, however, that the current state of clinical and research literature does not adequately address all of the challenges and issues relevant to the identification and care of these patients.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9695/definition-of-serious-and-complex-medical-conditions", year = 1999, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Edward B. Perrin and Jane S. Durch and Susan M. Skillman", title = "Health Performance Measurement in the Public Sector: Principles and Policies for Implementing an Information Network", isbn = "978-0-309-06436-1", abstract = "There is growing interest in using performance measurement as a means of holding federal, state, and local health agencies accountable for their use of public funds. Health Performance Measurement in the Public Sector is the second of two books for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on using and improving performance measurement in publicly funded health programs and the implications for data needs and systems.\nThis book focuses on data and information system issues at the federal, state, and local levels. Recommendations address:\n\n Policy framework for selecting performance measures and using performance measurement.\n Operational principles related to data and data systems that support performance measurement.\n Essential investments in data systems and in training and technical assistance.\n Research needed to improve performance measures and performance measurement.\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6487/health-performance-measurement-in-the-public-sector-principles-and-policies", year = 1999, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP editor = "Dennis Mileti", title = "Disasters by Design: A Reassessment of Natural Hazards in the United States", isbn = "978-0-309-26173-9", abstract = "Disasters by Design provides an alternative and sustainable way to view, study, and manage hazards in the United States that would result in disaster-resilient communities, higher environmental quality, inter- and intragenerational equity, economic sustainability, and improved quality of life. This volume provides an overview of what is known about natural hazards, disasters, recovery, and mitigation, how research findings have been translated into policies and programs; and a sustainable hazard mitigation research agenda. Also provided is an examination of past disaster losses and hazards management over the past 20 years, including factors\u2014demographic, climate, social\u2014that influence loss. This volume summarizes and sets the stage for the more detailed books in the series.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5782/disasters-by-design-a-reassessment-of-natural-hazards-in-the", year = 1999, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Donald J. Hernandez", title = "Children of Immigrants: Health, Adjustment, and Public Assistance", isbn = "978-0-309-06545-0", abstract = "Immigrant children and youth are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, and so their prospects bear heavily on the well-being of the country. Children of Immigrants represents some of the very best and most extensive research efforts to date on the circumstances, health, and development of children in immigrant families and the delivery of health and social services to these children and their families.\nThis book presents new, detailed analyses of more than a dozen existing datasets that constitute a large share of the national system for monitoring the health and well-being of the U.S. population. Prior to these new analyses, few of these datasets had been used to assess the circumstances of children in immigrant families. The analyses enormously expand the available knowledge about the physical and mental health status and risk behaviors, educational experiences and outcomes, and socioeconomic and demographic circumstances of first- and second-generation immigrant children, compared with children with U.S.-born parents.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9592/children-of-immigrants-health-adjustment-and-public-assistance", year = 1999, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }