Public Health

RAND Health Care researchers used public and private data, such as data from health care claims, to understand telehealth’s effect on health care delivery and how it affects care quality, access, and equity….

A large study comparing Vietnam War-era military veterans who became eligible for disability compensation with ineligible veterans found that eligibility for compensation was associated with substantial reductions in hospitalizations—an important…

Fewer than 1 in 4 people with heart disease use wearable heath trackers. Is it time to start having insurance pay for them?

FSG’s Alex Caldwell shares 5 themes from the 2023 ACHI conference on health care.

New research shows that preventable deaths are increasing in the US at the same time that life expectancy keeps dropping.

A new report from the American Lung Association shows that more than 4 in 10 Americans live with polluted air — 135 million people living in 217 counties. This pollution hits communities…

Most older adults use patient portals than five years ago, but there are still disparities in who uses the health care platforms.

Art, music and poetry therapy can help patients feel more optimistic and less isolated as well as to embrace the uncertainty that comes with illness.

Climate change and air pollution are two major societal problems. Air pollution is responsible for millions of deaths worldwide and crop loss every year. Both climate change and air pollution…

School-based health clinics are a promising response to the youth mental health crisis and provide a wide variety of services, but limited funding has slowed their spread.

This year, reporters at The Palm Beach Post and ProPublica investigated the impact of sugar cane burning in Florida. The harvesting practice helps produce more than half of America’s cane sugar, but…

Two studies highlighting the scale of potentially life-threatening air pollution in urban areas have been published in The Lancet Planetary Health. According to the modeling studies by US-based research teams,…