IOM Releases Summary Of Workshop On Country-Level Decision Making For Controlling Chronic Diseases
The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM) on Monday released a summary of a workshop, titled "Country-Level Decision Making for Control of Chronic Diseases." As part of a series of follow-up activities to the IOM's 2010 report, "Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World," the workshop "aimed to identify what is needed to create tools for country-led planning of effective, efficient, and equitable provision of programs to prevent and reduce the burden of chronic diseases," according to its website (4/2).
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