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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Board on the Health of Select Populations, Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Tenth Biennial Update)
From 1962 to 1971, the US military sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that could conceal opposition forces, to destroy crops that those forces might depend on, and to clear tall grasses and bushes from the perimeters of
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Institute of Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Committee to Review Data Systems for Monitoring HIV Care, Carol Mason Spicer, Morgan A. Ford
The number of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in the United States is growing each year largely due both to advances in treatment that allow HIV-infected individuals to live longer and healthier lives and due to a steady number of new HIV infecti
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Institute of Medicine, Board on Global Health, Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health in the 21st Century, Joshua Lederberg, Margaret A. Hamburg, Mark S. Smolinski
Infectious diseases are a global hazard that puts every nation and every person at risk. The recent SARS outbreak is a prime example. Knowing neither geographic nor political borders, often arriving silently and lethally, microbial pathogens constitu
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National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Institute of Medicine, Summary of the Institute of Medicine Symposium on Contributions of the Behavioral and Social Sciences to Health, Lisa F. Berkman, Ph.D
The importance of behavioral, social, economic, and environmental influences on health is increasingly recognized. Further, the relationships among genetic factors, social influences, and the physical environment are now of growing interest to the re
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National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Committee on Climate, Ecosystems, Infectious Disease, and Human Health
Since the dawn of medical science, people have recognized connections between a change in the weather and the appearance of epidemic disease. With today's technology, some hope that it will be possible to build models for predicting the emergence and
Determining the health risks to humans of exposure to toxic substances in the environment is made difficult by problems such as measuring the degree to which people have been exposed and determining causation?whether observed health effects are due t
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Institute of Medicine, Committee on Research, Development, and Institutional Strengthening for Control of Cardiovascular Diseases in Developing Coun, Judith R. Bale, Thomas J. Ryan, K. Srinath Reddy, Christopher P. Howson
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are increasing in epidemic proportions in developing countries. CVD already accounts for almost 10 percent of the developing world's burden of disease and is likely to become the developing world's leading cause of death
This book contains papers presented at a conference which describe studies of a World War II hepatitis epidemic, a genetic analysis of substance use in veteran twins, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, the psychological effects of military captiv
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Water Science and Technology Board, Committee on Community Wastewater-based Infectious Disease Surveillance
The COVID-19 pandemic spurred a rapid expansion of wastewater-based infectious disease surveillance systems to monitor and anticipate disease trends in communities.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the National Wastewater