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Useful for children in grades K-12, this volume provides broad recommendations for comprehensive school health programs CSHPs, with suggestions and guidelines for national, state, and local actions. It examines how communities can become involved, and explores models for CSHPs. It is for policymakers in health and education, teachers, and parents.

Birth outcomes have improved worldwide, yet, there is a gap between the outcomes in developing and developed countries. This book addresses the steps needed to reduce that gap. It reviews the statistics of low birth weight, prematurity, and birth defects and identifies cost-effective opportunities for improving birth outcomes.

Offers an overview of the public health education, assessing its readiness to provide the training and education needed to prepare men and women to face 21st century challenges. This work examines areas of public health education such as: informatics, communication, cultural competence, community-based participatory research, and others.

Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic conditions. This book explores how persons of color experience the health care environment. It offers recommendations for improvements in medical care financing, allocation of care, and other arenas.

Outlines an approach to ensure the protection of participants through the establishment of effective Human Research Participant Protection Programs. Topics covered in this book include improved research review processes, recognition and integration of research participants contributions to the system, and vigilant maintenance of HRPPP performance.

What is it about the school environment - pedagogy, curriculum, climate, organization - that encourages or discourages engagement in school activities? This book reviews research on what shapes adolescents' school engagement and motivation to learn. It includes findings on students' sense of belonging.

Explores the principles underlying the biological challenges, medical interventions, the continuing research agenda, and operational considerations for post-immunization strategies for vaccine-preventable viral diseases, and highlights important efforts that may facilitate wise decision making.

Examines the real consequences for adults who lack health insurance. This study presents findings in the areas of prevention and screening, cancer, chronic illness, hospital-based care, and general health status.

Offers an evaluation of the relative importance of zoonotic diseases against the overall backdrop of emerging infections. This book provides research findings related to the state of our understanding of zoonotic diseases; and surveillance and response strategies to detect, prevent, and mitigate the impact of zoonotic diseases on human health.

Every year, about 30,000 people die by suicide in the US, and some 650,000 receive emergency treatment after a suicide attempt. This book provides a blueprint for addressing this tragic problem: how we can build an appropriate infrastructure, conduct needed research, and improve our ability to recognize suicide risk and effectively intervene.

Divided into two parts, Part I of this book explores relationships between weight gain during pregnancy and a variety of factors, and places this in the context of the health of the infant and the mother. Part II addresses vitamin and mineral supplementation during pregnancy.

It sounds simple: Women who drink while pregnant may give birth to children with defects, so women should not drink during pregnancy. This volume discusses fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and other possibly alcohol-related effects from two perspectives: diagnosis and surveillance, and prevention and treatment.

Offers an assessment of managed care for behavioral health and a framework for purchasing, delivering, and ensuring the quality of behavioral health care. This book presents objective analysis of the powerful multimillion-dollar accreditation industry and the key accrediting organizations.

Contains the results of an epidemiological study of the mortality of participants compared with a similar group of nonparticipants. The topics in this book include: a breakdown of the study rationale; an overview of other studies of veteran participants in nuclear tests; and descriptions of Operation CROSSROADS; and more.

Discusses the state of the nation's blood supply. This book covers such topics as studies of blood availability, ways of enhancing blood collection and distribution, frozen red cell technology, logistical concerns in prepositioning frozen blood, extended liquid storage of red cells, and blood substitutes.

Offers an examination of drug abuse issues in the United States, describing findings and outlining research needs in the areas of behavioral and neurobiological foundations of drug abuse. This book covers the epidemiology and etiology of drug abuse and discusses several of its most troubling health and social consequences.

Reviewing the research pertaining to nutrient requirements for working in cold or in high-altitude environments, this work states recommendations regarding the application of this information to military operational rations. It addresses whether cold or high-altitude environments elicit an increased demand or requirement for specific nutrients.

Makes recommendations for improving primary care, building its organization, financing, infrastructure, and knowledge base, as well as developing a way of thinking and acting for primary care clinicians. This volume also discusses the needs of special populations, the role of the capitation method of payment, and more.

Does radiation medicine need more regulation or better-coordinated regulation? This book addresses this and other questions of importance to public health and safety. It is useful for federal and state policymakers and regulators, health professionals involved in radiation treatment, developers and producers of radiation equipment, and more.

Offers an examination of isotope production and availability, including the education and training of those who will be needed to sustain the flow of radioactive and stable materials from their sources to the laboratories and medical care facilities in which they are used.

Discusses six competency based learning objectives for all medical school students, discusses the relevance of environmental health to specific courses and clerkships, and demonstrates how to integrate environmental health into the curriculum through published case studies, some of which are included in one of the book's three appendices.

What are the long-term results of weight-loss programs? How can people sort through the many programs available and select one that is right for them? This book strives to answer these questions. This book discusses short- and long-term safety consequences of weight loss, as well as clinical assessment of individual patients.