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Presents some of the critical issues in responding to the psychological needs that result from terrorism and provides options for intervention. This book offers an example for a public health strategy to serve as a base from which plans to prevent and respond to the psychological consequences of a variety of terrorism events can be formulated.

Alcohol use by young people is extremely dangerous - both to themselves and society at large. Why is this dangerous behavior so pervasive? What can be done to prevent it? What will work? This work addresses these questions, and explores the ways in which different individuals and groups contribute to the problem and how they can be enlisted.

Academic health centres are facing changes that will impact their roles in education, research and patient care. This text explores how AHCs will need to consider how to redirect each of their roles so they are able to meet the challenges of health care.

This volume examines our understanding of the relationships among microbes, disease vectors and human hosts, and explores possible new strategies for meeting the challenge of resistance.

Reaffirms the vision of Healthy People 2010, and outlines a systems approach to assuring the nation's health in practice, research, and policy. This book discusses the need for a shift from an individual to a population-based approach in practice, research, policy, and community engagement.

Most industries have plunged into data automation, but health care organizations have lagged in moving patients' medical records from paper to computers. This book talks about the computer-based patient record (CPR) technology. It explores the potential of machine-readable CPRs to improve diagnostic and care decisions.

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.