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Health care systems everywhere are being dramatically restructured and, in the United States, the impact of managed care on the public health enterprise cannot be small.
The Forum members felt that scrutiny of that impact on infectious disease prevention, monitoring, and treatment could be highly significant: At its March 1998 workshop, Forum members brought key representatives of the "managed care subsector" to the table to address the large range of pertinent issues.
The central theme of the workshop was to identify the implications of managed care systems for basic and clinical research, clinical practice guidelines, surveillance and monitoring, prevention, education and outreach, and product development for emerging infections.
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Global Issues in Water, Sanitation, and Health. Workshop Summary
Worldwide, over one billion people lack access to an adequate water supply. Recognizing water availability, water quality, and sanitation as fundamental issues underlying infectious disease emergence, the IOM’s Forum on Microbial Threats held a two-day public workshop.
Released: September 25, 2009
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Microbial Evolution and Co-Adaptation. A Tribute to the Life and Scientific Legacies of Joshua Lederberg. Workshop Summary
Dr. Joshua Lederberg – scientist, Nobel laureate, visionary thinker, and friend of the Forum on Microbial Threats – died on February 2, 2008. It was in his honor that the Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Microbial Threats convened a public workshop on May 20-21, 2008, to examine Dr. Lederberg’s scientific and policy contributions to the marketplace of ideas in the life sciences, medicine, and public policy. The resulting workshop summary, Microbial Evolution and Co-Adaptation, demonstrates the extent to which conceptual and technological developments have, within a few short years, advanced our collective understanding of the microbiome, microbial genetics, microbial communities, and microbe-host-environment interactions.
Released: March 27, 2009
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