Tabla de Contenidos: “…Accountability -- Preventing Illness and Detecting Diseases Early -- Bridging Personal Health Care, Family, and Community -- Primary Care and the School -- Primary Care and the Elderly -- Primary Care and Public Health -- Comment -- PRIMARY CARE AND COSTS, ACCESS, AND QUALITY -- Costs of Care -- Access to Care -- Quality of Care -- General Observations -- Outcomes -- Attributes of Primary Care -- Management of Referrals -- Preventive Care -- THE LIMITS OF PRIMARY CARE IN IMPROVING POPULATION HEALTH -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 4 The Nature of Primary Care -- CONTENT OF PRIMARY CARE -- The Large Majority of Health Care Needs -- Episodes of Primary Care -- CHARACTERISTICS OF PRIMARY CARE -- Biomedical and Social Sciences -- Biomedical Sciences -- Social Sciences and the Humanities in Primary Care -- Evidence-Based Medicine -- Clinical Decisionmaking -- General Observations -- Influence of Different Clinical Roles -- Personal Aspects of Primary Care -- Mental Health and Physical Health -- Health Promotion And Disease Prevention -- The Power of Information -- SUMMARY -- APPENDIX: DATA ON THE MAJORITY OF PERSONAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS -- Description of Data -- The Netherlands Transition Project -- The U.S. Data -- Results -- The Netherlands Transition Project -- The U.S. …”

Materias: “…Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (U.S.)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Veterans and Agent Orange -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Preface -- CONDUCT OF THE STUDY -- Contents -- 1 Executive Summary -- ORGANIZATION AND FRAMEWORK -- CONCLUSIONS ABOUT HEALTH OUTCOMES -- Health Outcomes with Sufficient Evidence of an Association -- Health Outcomes with Limited/Suggestive Evidence of an Association -- Health Outcomes with Limited/Suggestive Evidence of No Association -- Health Outcomes with Inadequate/Insufficient Evidence to Determine Whether an Association Exists -- Increased Risk in Vietnam Veterans -- RESEARCH RECOMMENDATIONS -- Epidemiologic Studies of Vietnam Veterans -- Mandated Research Efforts -- REFERENCES -- 2 History of the Controversy Over the Use of Herbicides -- MILITARY USE OF HERBICIDES IN VIETNAM -- Herbicide Development and Testing -- Use of Herbicides in Vietnam -- EARLY CONCERNS ABOUT THE USE OF HERBICIDES IN VIETNAM -- Early Accounts of Dioxin (TCDD) -- Concerns Over the Long-Term Use of Herbicides -- CONCERNS ABOUT EXPOSURE TO AGENT ORANGE -- Vietnam Veterans Return Home -- The Beginning of the Controversy -- AGENT ORANGE PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION -- Class Action Suit -- CONCERNS ABOUT OTHER EXPOSURES TO 2,4,5-T AND TCDD -- Occupational Exposure -- Production Workers -- Agricultural and Forestry Workers -- Pulp and Paper Mill Workers -- Major Event Associated with Occupational Exposure to Dioxin (TCDD) -- Environmental Exposures -- Domestic Use of Herbicides -- Major Events Associated with Environmental Exposure to Dioxin (TCDD) -- THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSE TO PUBLIC CONCERNS -- White House -- U.S. Congress -- Hearings -- Legislation on Agent Orange -- Office of Technology Assessment -- General Accounting Office -- Department of the Air Force -- Department of Veterans Affairs -- Health Care -- Research Efforts -- Compensation and Benefits -- Outreach Activities…”

“…A strong health system is the best insurance developing countries can have against a disease burden that is shifting rapidly and in ways that history has not prepared us for. Reaching the poor with development assistance is an increasingly complicated task. …”

“…However, as humans continue to venture into the digital frontier, it remains to be known whether access to seemingly unlimited information is actually helping us learn and solve complex problems, or ultimately creating more difficulty and confusion for individuals and societies by offering content overload that is not always meaningful. …”