Health care has been called one of the most complex sectors of the U.S. economy. Driven largely by robust innovation in
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On February 5, 2015, the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Population Health Improvement hosted a workshop to explore
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The aging and evolving racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. population has the United States in the midst of a prof
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To receive the greatest value for health care, it is important to focus on issues of quality and disparity, and the abil
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Health literacy is the degree to which one can understand and make decisions based on health information. Nearly 90 mill
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Approximately 80 million adults in the United States have low health literacy - an individual's ability to obtain,
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The initial sequencing of the human genome, carried out by an international group of experts, took 13 years and $2.7 bil
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The Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Health Literacy convened a 1-day public workshop to explore the relationship bet
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Much of the ecological research in the past decades has focused on rural or wilderness areas. Today, however, ecological
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Population Health Implications of the Affordable Care Act is the summary of a workshop convened in June 2013 by the Inst
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