Informing the future
Subtitle: critical issues in health
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Biomedical Research; Health Services Needs and Demands; Trends; Delivery of Health Care; Public Health; Health Planning; Institute of Medicine (U.S.)
Description: This booklet provides a brief look at the work of the Institute of Medicine and highlights some of the policy areas that they believe will be important in the next several years. It is organized into two sections. The first section illustrates the work that they have done in several topic areas and the last section provides a comprehensive bibliography of IOM reports published since 2001.
Notes: Title from title screen (viewed October 27, 2005).

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in PDF format.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: The Institute of Medicine: Advising the Nation, improving health; title: Making America's health care as good as it should be; title: Health risks and public policy: perception and reality; title: Guiding biomedical and clinical research; title: The Nation's future: children and youth; title: Global health; title: Protecting the health of those who protect the nation; title: The power of convening; title: Fellowship programs at the Institute of Medicine; title: Recent and upcoming reports.