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Insecticide-Treated Bednets
Insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs, LLINs) are insecticide-impregnated mosquito nets for malaria prevention; over 2 billion distributed since 2005, now shifting from pyrethroid-only to PBO and dual-ingredient nets against resistance.
INSIGHT trial
INSIGHT trial (Intervention Nurses Start Infants Growing on Healthy Trajectories, NCT01167270): Penn State randomized trial of nurse-delivered responsive parenting for first-time mothers, reducing rapid infant weight gain and overweight at age 1; distinct from SWOG S2414 and tepotinib INSIGHT trials.
Institute of Child Health (Kolkata, IN)
Institute of Child Health (ICH), Kolkata, India's first dedicated pediatric institute, founded 1956 by Dr K.C. Chaudhuri, inaugurated by Nehru in 1957; nonprofit trust-run children's hospital and teaching institute at Park Circus.
Institute of Life
Institute of Life – IASO is a private IVF unit in Maroussi, Athens, established in 2015. It is known for its use of Maternal Spindle Transfer and ERICA AI.
Institute of Medicine
Institute of Medicine (IOM), Tribhuvan University, Nepal's pioneering medical school founded 1972 at Maharajgunj, Kathmandu; runs MBBS since 1978, TUTH teaching hospital, 7 campuses, 15 affiliated colleges, 63+ health science programs.
Institute of Mental Health (Belgrade, RS)
Institute of Mental Health (Institut za mentalno zdravlje), Belgrade: tertiary psychiatric hospital founded 14 April 1963 as the Center for Mental Health, first social-psychiatric institution in Yugoslavia and the Balkans, WHO Collaborating Centre since 2009.
Institute of Mental Health (Chennai, IN)
Institute of Mental Health (IMH), Kilpauk, Chennai: Tamil Nadu's government psychiatric hospital, tracing to 1794 and rebuilt at Kilpauk in 1871; 1,800 beds, attached to Madras Medical College, renamed IMH in 1977.
Institute of Mental Health (Singapore, SG)
Institute of Mental Health (IMH), formerly Woodbridge Hospital (板桥医院), Singapore's only tertiary psychiatric hospital at Buangkok Green Medical Park; founded 1841, 2,200 beds, about 80% of public mental health care.
Institute of Pathology
Institute of Pathology (สถาบันพยาธิวิทยา), Bangkok: Thailand government anatomical pathology institution under the Department of Medical Services, established 10 December 1974; national reference lab, 3-year residency since 1972, home of the Royal College of Pathologists of Thailand.
Institutional Ethics
Institutional ethics, also called organizational ethics, is the ethical analysis of decisions and actions by healthcare organizations, covering ethics committees and the ethics of business and management decisions.
Institutionalization
Institutionalization: care of individuals in institutions and adaptation to institutional routines, or loss of adaptation to life outside; central concept in psychiatry and long-term care, opposed by deinstitutionalization.
Insurance Benefits
Insurance benefits, also called health benefits, are the payments or services an insurance policy or prepayment program must provide when specified conditions are met, defining which medical services are covered and with what cost sharing.
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) is a WHO and UNICEF guideline, launched in 1995, for assessing and treating major childhood illnesses at first-level clinics without laboratories.
Intensive care unit
An intensive care unit (ICU), also called a critical care unit, is a hospital unit for critically ill patients, providing intensive monitoring, nursing, and organ support such as mechanical ventilation.
Intermediate Care Facilities
Intermediate care facilities are residential health care settings between a hospital and home support, serving people with intellectual disabilities in the US and frail older people in the UK.
International Classification of Diseases
The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is the World Health Organization's international standard for coding diseases and causes of death; its current revision, ICD-11, took effect in 2022.
International Diabetes Federation
International Diabetes Federation (Fédération Internationale du Diabète), Brussels-based non-profit umbrella of 264 national diabetes associations in 163 countries; founded 1950 in Amsterdam; publishes the Diabetes Atlas and runs World Diabetes Day.
International health
International health: a public health term for cross-border health work, now overlapping with global health; also the RSTMH peer-reviewed journal International Health (ISSN 1876-3413, founded 2009) and the WHO's International Health Regulations framework.
International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM
The International Journal of Medical Microbiology (IJMM) is a peer-reviewed medical microbiology journal published in Germany since 2000 by Elsevier, continuing the German serial Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie.
International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
The International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG) is a professional association and charity based in London, founded in 1991 to improve women's health through ultrasound education and standards.
Interrupted time series analysis
Interrupted time series (ITS) analysis is a quasi-experimental design that estimates an intervention's effect by fitting regression models to data from many time points before and after.
InterTAK study
InterTAK study (International Takotsubo Registry), founded 2011 at University Hospital Zurich, is the largest multicenter registry of takotsubo syndrome, with over 3,500 patients from 56 sites in 18 countries; it produced the InterTAK Diagnostic and Prognostic Scores.
Intervention mapping
Intervention mapping is an iterative six-step protocol for planning, developing, and evaluating theory- and evidence-based health promotion and public health interventions, first published in 1998.
Interventional study design
An interventional study is a research design in which investigators deliberately assign an intervention, such as a drug or device, to participants; the randomized controlled trial is the reference-standard form.
Interventional trial
An interventional trial is a clinical study in which researchers assign participants to receive an intervention, such as a drug or procedure, and measure its effect on health outcomes.
Introduction of vaccination in Korea
The introduction of vaccination in Korea was the adoption of smallpox immunization in Joseon-era Korea, pioneered by Ji Seok-yeong, who opened a vaccine office in Seoul in 1880.
Iowa Department of Public Health
Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH), successor to the 1880 State Board of Health, was Iowa's state public health agency until merging with DHS on July 1, 2022 to form Iowa HHS under HF 2578.
IPA-CPP trial
IPA-CPP (NCT02867774) was a University of Michigan pilot trial testing an 8-week supervised moderate-intensity exercise program for pain, function, and quality of life in women with chronic pelvic pain.
IPF/ILD-PRO study
IPF/ILD-PRO (NCT01915511) is a prospective observational US registry run by Duke Clinical Research Institute with Boehringer Ingelheim, following over 2,000 people with IPF and progressive fibrotic ILD.
iPHENAMIC study
iPHENAMIC (NCT02501070) is a retrospective cohort study of 6783 STEMI patients in northern Galicia, Spain, showing that the PROGALIAM regional infarct-care network lowered 5-year adjusted mortality and equalized survival across A Coruña, Lugo, and Ferrol.