@BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Daniel Melnick and Edward Perrin", title = "Improving Racial and Ethnic Data on Health: Report of a Workshop", isbn = "978-0-309-09094-0", abstract = "The panel convened the Workshop on Improving Racial and Ethnic Data in Health to review information about current private-sector and state data collection practices in light of existing federal, state, and local regulations, laws, and requirements. The workshop presentations featured the perspectives of data users, health care providers, insurance plan representatives, state and local public health officials, and regulatory officials. Participants assessed policies, practices, barriers, and opportunities for collecting racial and ethnic data in their settings, and explored ways that private and state systems can be improved to address data needs. In preparation for the workshop, the panel commissioned four background papers to fill gaps in knowledge of private-sector and state government policies and practices and to address the importance of racial and ethnic data collection. The panel is also examining the role of socioeconomic status regarding health and health care disparities. However, the workshop intended to focus only on racial and ethnic data collection. The panel's final report will contain a full consideration of the collection of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic status data.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10833/improving-racial-and-ethnic-data-on-health-report-of-a", year = 2004, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Rodolfo A. Bulatao and Norman B. Anderson", title = "Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life: A Research Agenda", isbn = "978-0-309-09247-0", abstract = "As the population of older Americans grows, it is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse. Differences in health by racial and ethnic status could be increasingly consequential for health policy and programs. Such differences are not simply a matter of education or ability to pay for health care. For instance, Asian Americans and Hispanics appear to be in better health, on a number of indicators, than White Americans, despite, on average, lower socioeconomic status. The reasons are complex, including possible roles for such factors as selective migration, risk behaviors, exposure to various stressors, patient attitudes, and geographic variation in health care.\nThis volume, produced by a multidisciplinary panel, considers such possible explanations for racial and ethnic health differentials within an integrated framework. It provides a concise summary of available research and lays out a research agenda to address the many uncertainties in current knowledge. It recommends, for instance, looking at health differentials across the life course and deciphering the links between factors presumably producing differentials and biopsychosocial mechanisms that lead to impaired health.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11036/understanding-racial-and-ethnic-differences-in-health-in-late-life", year = 2004, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Michele Ver Ploeg and Edward Perrin", title = "Eliminating Health Disparities: Measurement and Data Needs", isbn = "978-0-309-09231-9", abstract = "Disparities in health and health care across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds in the United States are well documented. The reasons for these disparities are, however, not well understood. Current data available on race, ethnicity, SEP, and accumulation and language use are severely limited. The report examines data collection and reporting systems relating to the collection of data on race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic position and offers recommendations.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10979/eliminating-health-disparities-measurement-and-data-needs", year = 2004, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Norman B. Anderson and Rodolfo A. Bulatao and Barney Cohen", title = "Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life", isbn = "978-0-309-09211-1", abstract = "In their later years, Americans of different racial and ethnic backgrounds are not in equally good--or equally poor--health. There is wide variation, but on average older Whites are healthier than older Blacks and tend to outlive them. But Whites tend to be in poorer health than Hispanics and Asian Americans. This volume documents the differentials and considers possible explanations.\n\nSelection processes play a role: selective migration, for instance, or selective survival to advanced ages. Health differentials originate early in life, possibly even before birth, and are affected by events and experiences throughout the life course. Differences in socioeconomic status, risk behavior, social relations, and health care all play a role. Separate chapters consider the contribution of such factors and the biopsychosocial mechanisms that link them to health. This volume provides the empirical evidence for the research agenda provided in the separate report of the Panel on Race, Ethnicity, and Health in Later Life.\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11086/critical-perspectives-on-racial-and-ethnic-differences-in-health-in-late-life", year = 2004, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "A New Vision of Mobility: Guidance to Foster Collaborative Multimodal Decision Making", abstract = "TRB\u2019s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) and National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) have jointly produced Research Results Digest TCRP 65\/NCHRP 288 -- A New Vision of Mobility: Guidance to Foster Collaborative Multimodal Decision Making. The single digest summarizes the results of the first phase of a TCRP and NCHRP jointly funded project that will eventually produce a short document for popular distribution, serving as a guidance resource in a \u201chandbook\u201d format and a \u201ccompendium\u201d of case examples upon which the guidance document is based.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22068/a-new-vision-of-mobility-guidance-to-foster-collaborative-multimodal-decision-making", year = 2004, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Lynn Nielsen-Bohlman and Allison M. Panzer and David A. Kindig", title = "Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion", isbn = "978-0-309-28332-8", abstract = "To maintain their own health and the health of their families and communities, consumers rely heavily on the health information that is available to them. This information is at the core of the partnerships that patients and their families forge with today\u2019s complex modern health systems. This information may be provided in a variety of forms \u2013 ranging from a discussion between a patient and a health care provider to a health promotion advertisement, a consent form, or one of many other forms of health communication common in our society. Yet millions of Americans cannot understand or act upon this information. To address this problem, the field of health literacy brings together research and practice from diverse fields including education, health services, and social and cultural sciences, and the many organizations whose actions can improve or impede health literacy.\n \nHealth Literacy: Prescription to End Confusion examines the body of knowledge that applies to the field of health literacy, and recommends actions to promote a health literate society. By examining the extent of limited health literacy and the ways to improve it, we can improve the health of individuals and populations.\n\n\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10883/health-literacy-a-prescription-to-end-confusion", year = 2004, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Lawrence Reiter and Henry Falk and Charles Groat and Christine M. Coussens", title = "From Source Water to Drinking Water: Workshop Summary", isbn = "978-0-309-09306-4", abstract = "The Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine was established in 1988 as a mechanism for bringing the various stakeholders together to discuss environmental health issues in a neutral setting. The members of the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine come from academia, industry, and government. Their perspectives range widely and represent the diverse viewpoints of researchers, federal officials, and consumers. They meet, discuss environmental health issues that are of mutual interest, and bring others together to discuss these issues as well. For example, they regularly convene workshops to help facilitate discussion of a particular topic. The Rountable's fifth national workshop entitled From Source Water to Drinking Water: Ongoing and Emerging Challenges for Public Health continued the theme established by previous Roundtable workshops, looking at rebuilding the unity of health and the environment. This workshop summary captures the discussions and presentations by the speakers and participants, who identified the areas in which additional research was needed, the processes by which changes could occur, and the gaps in our knowledge.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11142/from-source-water-to-drinking-water-workshop-summary", year = 2004, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Lynn Goldman and Christine M. Coussens", title = "Environmental Health Indicators: Bridging the Chasm of Public Health and the Environment: Workshop Summary", isbn = "978-0-309-09265-4", abstract = "This report is the summary of the fourth workshop of The Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine. Environmental Indicators: Bridging the Chasm Between Public Health and the Environment, continues the overarching themes of previous workshops on rebuilding the unity of health and the environment. The purpose of the workshop was to bring people together from many fields, including federal, state, local, and private partners in environmental health, to examine potential leading indicators of environmental health, to discuss the proposed national\nhealth tracking effort, to look into monitoring systems of other nations, and to foster a dialogue on the steps for establishing a nationwide environmental health monitoring system. This workshop brought together a\nnumber of experts who presented, discussed, and debated the issues surrounding the implementation of a monitoring system.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11136/environmental-health-indicators-bridging-the-chasm-of-public-health-and", year = 2004, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Patricia A. Cuff and Neal Vanselow", title = "Improving Medical Education: Enhancing the Behavioral and Social Science Content of Medical School Curricula", isbn = "978-0-309-09142-8", abstract = "Roughly half of all deaths in the United States are linked to behavioral and social factors. The leading causes of preventable death and disease in the United States are smoking, sedentary lifestyle, along with poor dietary habits, and alcohol consumption. To make measurable improvements in the health of Americans, physicians must be equipped with the knowledge and skills from the behavioral and social sciences needed to recognize, understand, and effectively respond to patients as individuals, not just to their symptoms. What are medical schools teaching students about the behavioral and social sciences? \n\nIn the report, the committee concluded that there is inadequate information available to sufficiently describe behavioral and social science curriculum content, teaching techniques, and assessment methodologies in U.S. medical schools and recommends development of a new national behavioral and social science database. The committee also recommended that the National Board of Medical Examiners ensure that the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination adequately cover the behavioral and social science subject matter recommended in this report.\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10956/improving-medical-education-enhancing-the-behavioral-and-social-science-content", year = 2004, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", title = "Measuring What Matters: Allocation, Planning, and Quality Assessment for the Ryan White CARE Act", isbn = "978-0-309-09115-2", abstract = "The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act gives funding\nto cities, states, and other public and private entities to provide care and support\nservices to individuals with HIV and AIDS who have low-incomes and little or no\ninsurance. The CARE Act is a discretionary program that relies on annual appropriations\nfrom Congress to provide care for low-income, uninsured, or underinsured\nindividuals who have no other resources to pay for care. Despite its successes, funding\nhas been insufficient to address all of the inequalities and gaps in coverage for\npeople with HIV.\n\nIn response to a congressional mandate, an Institute of Medicine committee was\nformed to reevaluate whether CARE allocation strategies are an equitable and efficient\nway of distributing resources to jurisdictions with the greatest needs and to\nassess whether quality of care can be refined and expanded. Measuring What\nMatters: Allocation, Planning, and Quality Assessment for the Ryan White CARE Act proposes\nseveral types of analyses that could be used to guide the evaluation and\nimprovement of allocation formulas, as well as a framework for assessing quality of\ncare provided to HIV-infected persons.\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10855/measuring-what-matters-allocation-planning-and-quality-assessment-for-the", year = 2004, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Licensing Geographic Data and Services", isbn = "978-0-309-09267-8", abstract = "Geographic data are used in all sectors of society to support a huge range of applications ranging from emergency response to land-use planning to location-based services. In the past, government agencies typically acquired ownership of such data from private-sector and other data producers and distributed these data without restriction. Licensing--whereby the producer may restrict redistribution--has emerged as an alternative business model that agencies must now consider among a suite of procurement options. The report highlights licensing perspectives and experiences of major stakeholder groups and examines the pros and cons of licensing. It concludes that licensing may be a viable option in some instances and advises agencies on how to best serve societal interests. ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11079/licensing-geographic-data-and-services", year = 2004, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Kenneth J. Arrow and Claire B. Panosian and Hellen Gelband", title = "Saving Lives, Buying Time: Economics of Malaria Drugs in an Age of Resistance", isbn = "978-0-309-09218-0", abstract = "For more than 50 years, low-cost antimalarial drugs silently saved millions\nof lives and cured billions of debilitating infections. Today, however, these\ndrugs no longer work against the deadliest form of malaria that exists\nthroughout the world. Malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa\u2014currently just\nover one million per year\u2014are rising because of increased resistance to the\nold, inexpensive drugs. Although effective new drugs called \u201cartemisinins\u201d\nare available, they are unaffordable for the majority of the affected population,\neven at a cost of one dollar per course.\n\nSaving Lives, Buying Time: Economics of Malaria Drugs in an Age of\nResistance examines the history of malaria treatments, provides an overview\nof the current drug crisis, and offers recommendations on maximizing\naccess to and effectiveness of antimalarial drugs. The book finds that most people\nin endemic countries will not have access to currently effective combination\ntreatments, which should include an artemisinin, without financing from the global community. Without funding for effective treatment, malaria mortality could double over the next 10 to 20 years and transmission will intensify. \n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11017/saving-lives-buying-time-economics-of-malaria-drugs-in-an", year = 2004, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }