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IOM reports provide objective and straightforward advice to decision makers and the public. This site includes IOM reports published after 1998. All reports from the IOM and the National Academies, including those published before 1998, are available from the National Academies Press.

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  Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment in Rural America. Workshop Summary Released: March 10, 2006

  Throughout much of its history, the United States was predominantly a rural society. The need to provide sustenance resulted in many people settling in areas where food could be raised for their families. The Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Science, Research, and Medicine held a regional workshop at the University of Iowa on November 29 and 30, 2004, to look at rural environmental health issues. This report is a summary of that workshop.
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  Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: The Greater Houston Metropolitan Area. Workshop Summary Released: February 3, 2005

  At a workshop sponsored by the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine in January 2004, titled Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: The Greater Houston Metropolitan Area, representatives from a variety of fields worked together to address issues of health and environment specific to the area. This workshop, one in a series of regional workshops sponsored by the Roundtable, was initiated based on the view that for a long time the world of environment, environmental regulation, environmental control, and engineering had moved in one direction, while the world of health had moved in another.
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  Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: A New Vision of Environmental Health for the 21st Century. Workshop Summary Released: January 28, 2003

  IOM's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine held a workshop in June 2000; this report is a summary of that workshop. The goal of this workshop was to emphasize the connection between human health and the natural, built, and social environments.