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      • Great Thinkers, Great Minds
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2018

        Great Thinkers, Great Minds

        Sunway University Professorial Lecture Series

        by Graeme G Wilkinson, Poh Chit Laa, Stephen J Hall, Glenda Crosling, Peter J Heard, Goh Cheng Teik, Pua Eng Chong, Edward R T Tiekink, Harold Thwaites, Naveed Ahmed Khan

        Great Thinkers, Great Minds: Sunway University Professorial Lecture Series presents 10 lectures from the Professorial Lecture Series presentations as thought-provoking papers that will remind readers of the importance of research in advancing modern society.   This first volume delves into the areas of sciences, arts, higher education and global politics. Among the topics discussed include — but are not limited to — the role of satellite data in the sustainable management of our environment, the search for and development of antiviral therapeutics against Enterovirus 71, the understanding of molecular assembly in crystals, the use of digital technologies in modern museum experience, and the relevance of diversity in higher education.   This book is suitable for readers who wish to keep abreast of novel research ideas and breakthroughs that will impact the way we live our lives in the 21st century.   Click here for more information

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      • The Cookie Book
        Health & Personal Development
        November 2012

        The Cookie Book

        Celebrating the Art, Power and Mystery of Women's Sweetest Spot

        by Maritza Breitenbach

        This international award-winning book offers an intimate guide for women of all ages. It gently weaves through a number of areas such as hygiene, puberby, virginity, the G-spot, masturbation, pregnancy, childbirth and the menopause, while offering amusing snippets from ancient times. The book is written in a conversational and humorous style, and has more than 100 colorful, non-invasive, non-pornographic images and classical art works from the masters. It addresses all the intimate questions women often have, and are too embarrassed to talk about. This valuable book is a beautiful gift to all women and young girls. "Recognising the importance and profundity of the vagin ... philosophical and humorous ... a tome that admirably attempts to unravel and ponder the history, impact and beauty of the vagina." - Oliver Roberts, Sunday Times

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      • Engineering Infrastructure Diagramming and Modeling
        Adult education, continuous learning
        January 1986

        Engineering Infrastructure Diagramming and Modeling

        by Panel on Engineering Infrastructure Diagramming and Modeling; Committee on the Education and Utilization of the Engineer; National Research Council

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      • Medical Education and Societal Needs
        Adult education, continuous learning
        January 1983

        Medical Education and Societal Needs

        A Planning Report for Health Professions

        by Division of Health Sciences Policy

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      • Allied Health Services
        Adult education, continuous learning
        January 1989

        Allied Health Services

        Avoiding Crises

        by Committee to Study the Role of Allied Health Personnel

        With estimates of their numbers ranging from one million to almost four million people, allied health care personnel make up a large part of the health care work force. Yet, they are among the least studied elements of our health care system. This book describes the forces that drive the demand for and the supply of allied health practitioners--forces that include demographic change, health care financing policies, and career choices available to women. Exploring such areas as credentialing systems and the employment market, the study offers a broad range of recommendations for action in both the public and private sectors, so that enough trained people will be in the right place at the right time.

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      • Medical Professional Liability and the Delivery of Obstetrical Care
        Adult education, continuous learning
        January 1989

        Medical Professional Liability and the Delivery of Obstetrical Care

        Volume I

        by Committee to Study Medical Professional Liability and the Delivery of Obstetrical Care, Institute of Medicine

        This is the first part of an in-depth study focusing on medical liability and its effect on access to and delivery of obstetrical care. The book addresses such questions as: Do liability concerns impede the use of new technologies? Have liability issues affected the physician-patient relationship? Are community health and maternity centers being harmed? What specific remedies are being considered and what are their prospects for success?

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      • Physician Staffing for the VA
        Adult education, continuous learning
        January 1991

        Physician Staffing for the VA

        Volume I

        by Joseph Lipscomb, Editor; Committee to Develop Methods Useful to the Department of Veteran Affairs in Estimating Its Physician Requirements, Institute of Medicine

        The Department of Veterans Affairs--the VA--operates the nation's largest and most diverse health care system. How many physicians does it need to carry out its principal mission-related responsibilities of patient care, education, and research? This book presents and demonstrates by concrete example a methodology to answer this basic, but extraordinarily complex, question. The heart of the methodology is a decision-making process in which both statistical and expert judgment approaches can be used separately or in concert to calculate the number of physicians required, by specialty, for any facility in the VA system. Although the analyses here focus entirely on the VA, the methodology could be used to determine physician staffing for a wide range of public and private sector health care organizations.

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      • Physician Staffing for the VA
        Adult education, continuous learning
        January 1992

        Physician Staffing for the VA

        Volume II, Supplementary Papers

        by Committee to Develop Methods Useful to the Department of Veterans Affairs in Estimating Its Physical Requirements

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      • The Funding of Young Investigators in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences
        Adult education, continuous learning
        January 1994

        The Funding of Young Investigators in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences

        by Committee on the Funding of Young Investigators in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, National Research Council

        This book brings to light trends in the support of life scientists beginning their professional careers. In 1985, 3,040 scientists under the age of 36 applied for individual investigator (R01) grants from the National Institutes of Health, and 1,002 received awards, for a "success rate" of 33%. In 1993, 1,389 scientists under the age of 36 applied for R01 grants and 302 received awards, for a success rate of 21.7%. Even when R23/R29 grant awards (both intended for new investigators) are added to the R01 awards, the number of R01 plus R23 awards made in 1985 was 1,308, and in 1993, the number of R01 plus R29 was 527. These recent trends in the funding of young biomedical research scientists, and the fact that young nonbiomedical scientists historically have had a smaller base of support to draw upon when beginning their careers, raises serious questions about the future of life science research. It is the purpose of this volume to present data about the trends and examine their implications.

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      • Meeting the Nation's Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists
        Adult education, continuous learning
        January 1994

        Meeting the Nation's Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists

        by Committee on National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Personnel, National Research Council

        This book assesses the nation's future needs for biomedical and behavioral scientists and the role the National Research Service Awards (NRSA) program can play in meeting those needs. The year 1994 marks the twentieth anniversary of the National Research Act of 1974 (PL 93-348), which established the NRSA program. In its twenty years of operation, the NRSA program has made it possible for many thousands of talented individuals in the basic biomedical, behavioral, and clinical sciences to sharpen their research skills and to apply those skills to topics of special concern to the nation, such as aging, hypertension, the genetic basis of disease, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), cancer, environmental toxicology, nutrition and health, and substance abuse.

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      • Environmental Medicine
        Adult education, continuous learning
        April 1995

        Environmental Medicine

        Integrating a Missing Element into Medical Education

        by Andrew M. Pope and David P. Rall, Editors; Committee on Curriculum Development in Environmental Medicine, Institute of Medicine

        People are increasingly concerned about potential environmental health hazards and often ask their physicians questions such as: "Is the tap water safe to drink?" "Is it safe to live near power lines?" Unfortunately, physicians often lack the information and training related to environmental health risks needed to answer such questions. This book discusses six competency based learning objectives for all medical school students, discusses the relevance of environmental health to specific courses and clerkships, and demonstrates how to integrate environmental health into the curriculum through published case studies, some of which are included in one of the book's three appendices. Also included is a guide on where to obtain additional information for treatment, referral, and follow-up for diseases with possible environmental and/or occupational origins.

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      • Meeting the Nation's Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists
        Adult education, continuous learning
        January 1994

        Meeting the Nation's Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists

        Summary of the 1993 Public Hearings

        by Laura Lathrop and Pamela Ebert Flattau, Editors; Committee on National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Personnel, Studies and Surveys Unit, Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel, National Research Council

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      • The Nation's Physician Workforce
        Adult education, continuous learning
        January 1996

        The Nation's Physician Workforce

        Options for Balancing Supply and Requirements

        by Kathleen N. Lohr, Neal A. Vanselow, and Don E. Detmer, Editors; Committee on the U.S. Physician Supply, Institute of Medicine

        Enormous changes are occurring in the organization and financing of the U.S. health care system--rapid changes that are being driven by market forces rather than by government initiatives. Although it is difficult to predict what they system will look like once it begins to stabilize, the changes will affect all components of the health care workforce, and the numbers and types of health care professionals that will be needed in the future--as well as the roles they will fill--will surely be much different than they were in the past. Despite numerous studies in the past 15 years showing that we might have more doctors than we need, the number of physicians in residency training continues to grow. At the same time, there is evidence that the demand for physician services will decrease as a result of growth of managed care. All of this is evidence that the demand for physician services will decrease as a result of growth of managed care. All of this is taking place at a time when, coincident with the result of failure of comprehensive health care reform, there is no coordinated and widely accepted physician workforce policy in the United States. The present study examines the following three questions: (1) Is there a physician policy in the United States? (2) If there a surplus, what is its likely impact on the cost, quality, and access to health care and on the efficient use of human resources? (3) What realistic steps can be taken to deal with a physician surplus? December

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      • Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes
        Adult education, continuous learning
        March 1996

        Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes

        Is It Adequate?

        by Gooloo S. Wunderlich, Frank Sloan, and Carolyne K. Davis, Editors; Committee on the Adequacy of Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes, Institute of Medicine

        Hospitals and nursing homes are responding to changes in the health care system by modifying staffing levels and the mix of nursing personnel. But do these changes endanger the quality of patient care? Do nursing staff suffer increased rates of injury, illness, or stress because of changing workplace demands? These questions are addressed in Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes, a thorough and authoritative look at today's health care system that also takes a long-term view of staffing needs for nursing as the nation moves into the next century. The committee draws fundamental conclusions about the evolving role of nurses in hospitals and nursing homes and presents recommendations about staffing decisions, nursing training, measurement of quality, reimbursement, and other areas. The volume also discusses work-related injuries, violence toward and abuse of nursing staffs, and stress among nursing personnel--and examines whether these problems are related to staffing levels. Included is a readable overview of the underlying trends in health care that have given rise to urgent questions about nurse staffing: population changes, budget pressures, and the introduction of new technologies. Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes provides a straightforward examination of complex and sensitive issues surround the role and value of nursing on our health care system.

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      • A Summary of the December 2009 Forum on the Future of Nursing
        Adult education, continuous learning
        June 2010

        A Summary of the December 2009 Forum on the Future of Nursing

        Care in the Community

        by Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine; Institute of Medicine

        The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the IOM, seeks to build a blueprint for the future of nursing as part of larger efforts to reform the health care system. The second of the Initiative's three forums was held on December 3, 2009, and examined care in the community, focusing on community health, public health, primary care, and long-term care.

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      • A Summary of the February 2010 Forum on the Future of Nursing
        Adult education, continuous learning
        August 2010

        A Summary of the February 2010 Forum on the Future of Nursing

        Education

        by Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine; Institute of Medicine

        As the U.S. health care system continues to evolve, the role of nurses also needs to evolve. Nurses must strike a delicate balance among advancing science, translating and applying research, and caring for individuals and families across all settings. Preparing nurses to achieve this balance is a significant challenge. The education system should ensure that nurses have the intellectual capacity, human responsiveness, flexibility, and leadership skills to provide care and promote health whenever and wherever needed. Education leaders and faculty need to prepare nurses with the competencies they need now and in the future. They need to prepare nurses to work and assume leadership roles not just in hospitals, but in communities, clinics, homes, and everywhere else nurses are needed. On February 22, 2010 the Initiative on the Future of Nursing held the last public forum in a series of three at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. This forum, which covered the education of nurses, consisted of three armchair discussions. Each discussion was led by a moderator from the committee and focused on three broad, overlapping subjects: what to teach, how to teach, and where to teach. The verbal exchange among the discussants and moderators, prompted by additional questions from committee members at the forum, produced a wide-ranging and informative examination of questions that are critical to the future of nursing education. Additionally, testimony presented by 12 individuals and comments made by members of the audience during an open microphone session provided the committee with valuable input from a range of perspectives.

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      • The Future of Nursing
        Adult education, continuous learning
        February 2011

        The Future of Nursing

        Leading Change, Advancing Health

        by Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine; Institute of Medicine

        The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles -- including limits on nurses' scope of practice -- should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.

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      • Empowering Women and Strengthening Health Systems and Services Through Investing in Nursing and Midwifery Enterprise
        Adult education, continuous learning
        June 2015

        Empowering Women and Strengthening Health Systems and Services Through Investing in Nursing and Midwifery Enterprise

        Lessons from Lower-Income Countries: Workshop Summary

        by Patricia A. Cuff, Deepali M. Patel, and Megan M. Perez, Rapporteurs; Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education; Forum on Public-Private Partnerships for Global Health and Safety; Board on Global Health; Institute of Medicine

        In September 2014, the Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education and the Forum on Public-Private Partnerships for Global Health and Safety of the Institute of Medicine convened a workshop on empowering women and strengthening health systems and services through investing in nursing and midwifery enterprise. Experts in women's empowerment, development, health systems' capacity building, social enterprise and finance, and nursing and midwifery explored the intersections between and among these domains. Innovative and promising models for more sustainable health care delivery that embed women's empowerment in their missions were examined. Participants also discussed uptake and scale; adaptation, translation, and replication; financing; and collaboration and partnership. Empowering Women and Strengthening Health Systems and Services Through Investing in Nursing and Midwifery Enterprise summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop. This report highlights examples and explores broad frameworks for existing and potential intersections of different sectors that could lead to better health and well-being of women around the world, and how lessons learned from these examples might be applied in the United States.

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      • A Framework for Educating Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Health
        Adult education, continuous learning
        September 2016

        A Framework for Educating Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Health

        by Committee on Educating Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Health; Board on Global Health; Institute of Medicine; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

        The World Health Organization defines the social determinants of health as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life.†These forces and systems include economic policies, development agendas, cultural and social norms, social policies, and political systems. In an era of pronounced human migration, changing demographics, and growing financial gaps between rich and poor, a fundamental understanding of how the conditions and circumstances in which individuals and populations exist affect mental and physical health is imperative. Educating health professionals about the social determinants of health generates awareness among those professionals about the potential root causes of ill health and the importance of addressing them in and with communities, contributing to more effective strategies for improving health and health care for underserved individuals, communities, and populations. Recently, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to develop a high-level framework for such health professional education. A Framework for Educating Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Health also puts forth a conceptual model for the framework’s use with the goal of helping stakeholder groups envision ways in which organizations, education, and communities can come together to address health inequalities.

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      • Addressing the Nation's Changing Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists
        Adult education, continuous learning
        August 2000

        Addressing the Nation's Changing Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists

        by Committee on National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists, Education and Career Studies Unit, National Research Council

        As biomedical and behavioral research progresses into new areas, the number of scientists active in various fields rises and falls, and the health needs of the U.S. population evolve, it is important to ensure that the preparation of future investigators reflects these changes. This book addresses these topics by considering questions such as the following: What is the current supply of biomedical and behavioral scientists? How is future demand for scientists likely to be affected by factors such as advances in research, trends in the employment of scientists, future research funding, and changes in health care delivery? What are the best ways to prepare prospective investigators to meet future needs in scientific research? In the course of addressing these questions, this volume examines the number of investigators trained every year, patterns of hiring by universities and industry, and the age of the scientific workforce in different fields, and makes recommendations for the number of scientists that should be trained in the years ahead. This book also considers the diversity of the research workforce and the importance of providing prospective scientists with the skills to successfully collaborate with investigators in related fields, and offers suggestions for how government and universities should structure their research training programs differently in the future.

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