Author: Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Che
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: neutralization, compass, series, hydrolysate, treat, supercritical, water, oxidation, using
Number of Pages: 82
Published: 1998-05-08
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0309060435
ISBN-13: 9780309060431

Author: Committee to Study Medical Professional Liability
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: medical, delivery, obstetrical, liability, professional, review, interdisciplinary, care, volume
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1989-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 030903986X
ISBN-13: 9780309039864

The second volume of an overall look at the "malpractice crisis" sheds fresh light on the civil justice and insurance systems, medical liability issues, and their combined effect on health care for mothers and children. Topics include the liability implications of the rising rate of Cesarean sections, an evaluation of the American Medical Association’s proposed alternative to the justice system for resolving medical liability disputes, and a review of legislative proposals under consideration.Book DescriptionThe second volume of an overall look at the "malpractice crisis" sheds fresh lig

Author: Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: disparities, health, care, ethnic, racial, treatment, confronting, unequal
Number of Pages: 782
Published: 2003-12-31
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0309085322
ISBN-13: 9780309085328

Report from the Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care and the Board on Health Sciences Policy. Examines how disparities in treatment may arise in healthcare systems and looks at aspects of the clinical encounter contributing to such disparities. Highlights cross-cultural education to improve communication.Book DescriptionRacial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic conditions. There is, however, increasing evidence that even after such differences are a

Author: Committee on the U.S. Physician Supply Institute
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: supply, requirements, balancing, options, physician, workforce, nation
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 1996-01-19
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0309054311
ISBN-13: 9780309054317

Report of the Committee on the U.S. Physician Supply, Division of Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine. Report addresses supply and demand, the relationship to the healthcare system, and strategies for addressing the problem, including doing nothing.Book DescriptionEnormous changes are occurring in the organization and financing of the U.S. health care system--rapid changes that are being driven by market forces rather than by government initiatives. Although it is difficult to predict what they system will look like once it begins to stabilize, the changes will affect all components of

Author: Panel on Foreign Trade Statistics Committee on Na
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: economy, world, trade, numbers
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0309045908
ISBN-13: 9780309045902

America’s international economic decisions rest to a large degree on the information available to policymakers. Yet the quality of international trade and financial data is in serious doubt. This book reveals how our systems for collecting and analyzing trade data have fallen behind the times - and presents recommendations for new approaches to accuracy and usefulness of these economic data. The volume traces the burgeoning use of international economic data by public and private analysts at a time when the United States is becoming increasingly integrated into the world economy. It also

Author: Growth and the Future of the U.S Economy Committe
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: economy, future, report, symposium, growth, software, sustaining, new, measuring
Number of Pages: 226
Published: 2006-04-10
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 0309099501
ISBN-13: 9780309099509

Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity. Rapid technological change in communications, computing, and information management continue to promise further gains in productivity, a phenomenon often referred to as the New Economy. To better understand this phenomenon, the National Academies Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) has convened a series of workshops and commissioned papers on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy. This major workshop, entitled Software, Growth, and the Future of the U.S. E

Author: Committee on Hormonally Active Agents in the Envir
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: environment, agents, active, hormonally
Number of Pages: 430
Published: 1999-12-15
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 0309064198
ISBN-13: 9780309064194

Report from the Committee on Hormonally Active Agents in the Environment, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Science, National Research Council. Committee reviewed literature, identified chemical substances, geographic areas, contaminant sources, human subpopulations, and fish and wildlife populations with respect to these toxicants.Book DescriptionSome investigators have hypothesized that estrogens and other hormonally active agents found in the environment might be involved in breast cancer increases and sperm count declines in humans as well as deformities and