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"More than 200,000 people in the United States living with HIV/AIDS do not know they are infected. The Institute of Medicine's Committee on HIV Screening and Access to Care held a workshop and reviewed literature to explore barriers and facilitators to more widespread HIV testing. This book contains the committee's conclusions."--Publisher's description.

Summary of presentations from the Workshop on Measures of Health Literacy, held February 26, 2009, in Washington, D.C.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is one of several federal agencies responsible for protecting Americans against significant risks to human health and the environment. This title explains the statement of task and summarizes the findings of the committee.

Military personnel in the US have been exposed to depleted uranium as the result of friendly fire incidents, cleanup and salvage operations, and proximity to burning depleted uranium-containing tanks and ammunition. This book contains recommendations aimed at improving various epidemiologic studies that deal with potential DU exposure.

Calls for a national and public process of creating an ethical framework for antiviral use within the context of uncertainty and scarcity. This report identifies the lack of a science-based advisory body to guide decision making during the pandemic, including guidance on all dimensions of antiviral dispensing.

The Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Health Disparities 1st workshop was held in St Louis, Missouri on July 31, 2007 and examined the importance of differences in life expectancy within the US, the reasons for those differences and the implications of this information for programs and policy makers. This title offers summary of this workshop.

Medications are an important component of health care, but each year their misuse results in over a million adverse drug events that lead to office and emergency room visits as well as hospitalizations and, in some cases, death.

Public health efforts have resulted in tremendous improvements in the health of individuals and communities. This work focuses on the critical roles that physicians play in maintaining and strengthening the public health system, and identifies what these physicians need to know to engage in effective public health actions.

The nation has made tremendous progress in reducing tobacco. This book generates a blueprint for the nation in the struggle to reduce tobacco use. It reviews prevention and treatment interventions and considers a set of tobacco control policies for adoption by federal and state governments.

Noting that resources and therefore efforts to monitor medications' risk benefit profiles taper off after approval, this book offers a set of recommendations to ensure that consideration of safety extends from before product approval through the entire time the product is marketed and used.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Diagnosis and Assessment (2006)

Summarizes the status of health effects in veterans deployed to the Persian Gulf irrespective of exposure information. This book reviews, evaluates, and summarizes both peer-reviewed scientific and medical literature addressing the health status of Gulf War veterans.

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary directed the Institute of Medicine to assemble the Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects. This book presents the committee's comprehensive distillation of the scientific and medical literature regarding association between asbestos and colorectal, laryngeal, esophageal, and stomach cancers.

Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment in Rural America: Workshop Summary (2006)

Quarantine Stations at Ports of Entry Protecting the Public's Health (2005)