'Smoking-related diseases kill more Americans than alcohol, illegal drugs, murder and suicide com...

'Rural counties make up about 80 percent of the land area of the United States, but they contain ...

'Although health literacy is commonly defined as an individual trait, it does not depend on the s...

The roots of health literacy can be traced back to the national literacy movement in India under ...

'In September 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a worksh...

This book is the third in a series of five brief reports that aim to inform ASPE analyses that ac...

Despite having the costliest medical care delivery system in the world, Americans are not particu...

Making Eye Health a Population Health Imperative

Building on previous National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshops that exp...

Brain health affects Americans across all ages, genders, races, and ethnicities. Enriching the bo...

Common diseases cost the developing world an enormous amount in terms of human life, health, and ...

Supporting a Movement for Health and Health Equity is the summary of a workshop convened in Decem...

'At the turn of the 21st century, several important reports and events designed to raise awarenes...

Research conducted over the past two decades has shown that poor patient understanding of medicat...

With U.S. health care costs projected to grow at an average rate of 5.5 percent per year from 201...

'Since 1965 the foreign-born population of the United States has swelled from 9.6 million or 5 pe...

Throughout much of its history, the United States was predominantly a rural society. The need to ...

Medications are an important component of health care, but each year their misuse results in over...

'The field of health literacy has evolved from early efforts that focused on individuals to its c...

In the United States, people living in low-income neighborhoods frequently do not have access to ...

'Substantial empirical evidence of the contribution of social and behavioral factors to functiona...

Poor health literacy has many negative consequences for achieving the quadruple aim of better car...

'Understanding the Connections Between Coastal Waters and Ocean Ecosystem Services and Human Heal...

'On June 16, 2016, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement held a workshop at the Luthera...

-Hepatitis B and C cause most cases of hepatitis in the United States and the world. The two dise...

'Millions of Americans use e-cigarettes. Despite their popularity, little is known about their he...

'Tobacco use by adolescents and young adults poses serious concerns. Nearly all adults who have e...

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to examine three topics ...

Every ten years, the Department of Health and Human Service's Healthy People Initiative develops ...

In 2004, the Institute of Medicine released Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion, a r...

An estimated 48 percent of the population takes at least one prescription drug in a given month. ...

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies of Science held a symposium, in memory ...

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

The Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Population Health Improvement brings together individua...

The increasingly diverse ethnic composition of the United States population has created a profoun...

Spread, Scale, and Sustainability in Population Health is the summary of a workshop convened by t...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have been moving from volume-based, fee-for-se...

In thousands of communities across the United States, drinking water is contaminated with chemica...

Involvement with the juvenile justice system can impact young people's physical and mental health...

Social media has been fully integrated into the lives of most adolescents in the U.S., raising co...

Women in the United States experience a higher prevalence of many chronic conditions, including A...

In 2023, the National Academies convened an expert committee to assess the current use of racial ...

Women make up over half of the U.S. population, yet research on women's health conditions, includ...