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Health Services, Coverage, and Access
For many, lack of health care is a persistent barrier to good health. The IOM examines the twin issues of health insurance coverage and access as well as taking a broad view of health care services. We consider subjects such as the organization, financing, effectiveness, workforce, and delivery of health care.
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Released: February 8, 2010
As cancer care becomes more personalized, patients will receive preventive or therapeutic interventions based on their susceptibilities or predicted responses. But before the use of personalized cancer care can reach its full potential, the health care system must resolve a number of policy issues. To explore these policy challenges, the National Cancer Policy Forum held this workshop in June 2009.
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Released: January 13, 2004
The report is the culmination of a series that offers the most comprehensive examination to date of the consequences of lack of health insurance on individuals, their families, communities and the whole society. The principles to guide health finance reform that are recommended in this sixth and final report of the series are based on the evidence reviewed in the Committee's previous five reports and on new analyses of past and present federal, state, and local efforts to reduce uninsurance.
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