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Accounting for Health and Health Care: Approaches to Measuring the Sources and Costs of their Improvement by National Research Council of the National Academies
epub |eng | 2011-01-05 | Author:National Research Council of the National Academies

4.3.2. Quality Change Adjustments for Improved Treatments It is generally accepted, both in the price index literature and in medical economics,11 that price indexes need to be adjusted to reflect ...
( Category: Medical eBooks September 2,2023 )
Sociocultural Data to Accomplish Department of Defense Missions: Toward a Unified Social Framework by National Research Council of the National Academies
epub |eng | 2011-02-07 | Author:National Research Council of the National Academies

FIGURE 5-2 Attunement to how a message is conveyed via emotional tone of voice. NOTE: Data drawn from U.S. participants raised as Protestants. SOURCE: Adapted from Sanchez-Burks (2002, p. 923). ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 2,2023 )
International Differences in Mortality at Older Ages: Dimensions and Sources by National Research Council of the National Academies
epub |eng | 2011-01-27 | Author:National Research Council of the National Academies

8 Do Cross-Country Variations in Social Integration and Social Interactions Explain Differences in Life Expectancy in Industrialized Countries? James Banks, Lisa Berkman, and James P. Smith with Mauricio Avendano and ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences September 2,2023 )
Building a National Framework for the Establishment of Regulatory Science for Drug Development: Workshop Summary by Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Nordenberg also stressed that clear outcome measures will be necessary for evaluating, assessing, and ultimately documenting the impact of this collaborative model. A COE model for FDA’s regulatory science framework, ...
( Category: Medical eBooks September 2,2023 )
Missouri River Planning: Recognizing and Incorporating Sediment Management by National Research Council of the National Academies
epub |eng | 2011-02-24 | Author:National Research Council of the National Academies

Emergent Sandbar Habitat In response to the 2000/03 Biological Opinion, the Emergent Sandbar Habitat (ESH) program was initiated in 2004. The project area extends from Garrison Dam in North Dakota ...
( Category: Hydrology September 2,2023 )
Innovations in Health Literacy Research: Workshop Summary by Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
epub |eng | 2011-03-07 | Author:Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

At NIH, this research is distributed across institutes and centers, but there is an effort to improve coordination and identify gaps for funding. OptNet opportunity network is providing more than ...
( Category: Medical eBooks September 2,2023 )
Understanding and Managing Risk in Security Systems for the Doe Nuclear Weapons Complex: (Abbreviated Version) by National Research Council of the National Academies
epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:National Research Council of the National Academies

KEY RECOMMENDATIONS In this section, the committee describes and briefly explains the key recommendations contained in the committee’s report. The committee’s work also resulted in a number of findings, that ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 2,2023 )
Promising Practices in Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education: Summary of Two Workshops by National Research Council of the National Academies
epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:National Research Council of the National Academies

Cummings explained that the Physics Education Group developed the tutorials to supplement instruction in an introductory, calculus-based physics course at the University of Washington that is required for all physics ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching September 2,2023 )
DECADAL SURVEY OF CIVIL AERONAUTICS: Foundation for the Future by National Research Council of the National Academies
epub |eng | 2006-09-26 | Author:National Research Council of the National Academies

Relevance to Strategic Objectives Capacity (1): This Challenge is not relevant to this Objective. Safety and Reliability (3): Aircraft safety, to a moderate extent, and aircraft reliability, to a greater ...
( Category: Science & Math September 2,2023 )
Defense Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis: MEETING THE CHALLENGE by National Research Council of the National Academies
epub |eng | 2006-09-30 | Author:National Research Council of the National Academies

Although these steps have been developed and proven successful in the context of large, complex, and strategic decisions requiring analytic support, a streamlined version is likely to be useful even ...
( Category: Engineering September 2,2023 )
ADDRESSING FOODBORNE THREATS TO HEALTH: Policies, Practices, and Global Coordination by Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
epub |eng | 2006-09-19 | Author:Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Nothing makes Greens—radical environmentalists—turn an angry red faster than invoking the word Alar to epitomize bogus environmental scares and imply that a current one is equally phony. Manufactured by Uniroyal ...
( Category: Medical eBooks September 2,2023 )
The Darker Nations by Vijay Prashad
epub |eng | | Author:Vijay Prashad

ARUSHA In 1967, the Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere dropped a bombshell in a nondescript town that functioned as the gateway to eastern Africa’s most spectacular natural phenomenon. Founded in 1900 ...
( Category: Globalization September 2,2023 )
A STRATEGY FOR ASSESSING SCIENCE: Behavioral and Social Research on Aging by National Research Council of the National Academies
epub |eng | 2007-02-28 | Author:National Research Council of the National Academies

Interpreting Scientific Progress The extent to which particular scientific results constitute progress in knowledge or contribute to societal well-being is often contested. This is especially the case when scientific findings ...
( Category: Medicine September 2,2023 )
ADVERSE DRUG EVENT REPORTING: THE ROLES OF CONSUMERS AND HEALTH-CARE PROFESSIONALS by Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
epub |eng | 2007-04-12 | Author:Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Advocacy group participation would help protect particularly vulnerable patient populations, such as young children and the elderly. More than twice as many prescriptions were filled for those 65 and older ...
( Category: Medical eBooks September 2,2023 )
Colorado River Basin Water Management: Evaluating and Adjusting to Hydroclimatic Variability by National Research Council of the National Academies
epub |eng | 2007-06-01 | Author:National Research Council of the National Academies

These three points have important implications for water management decisions for the Colorado River basin and are revisited in the Commentary section at the end of this chapter. FIGURE 3-6 ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation September 2,2023 )

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