Public Health

Mitigating the scourge of chronic disease, which afflicts more than half of Americans and consumes 86% of our nation’s healthcare expenditures, depends heavily on patients’ ability to improve their health…

Photo by E+, Getty Images via Kaiser Health News Black babies born in Southern states have an alarmingly higher risk of dying before the age…

Health-tracking devices and apps are becoming part of everyday life. More than 300,000 mobile phone applications claim to help with managing diverse personal health issues, from monitoring blood glucose levels…

A new conceptual model depicts the complex relationship between policing and population health. A specific police action, an arrest or a shooting, has an immediate and direct effect on the…

A legal settlement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the town containing the census tract with the worst air pollution in the country could significantly reduce harmful emissions in the area known…

For many transgender people, accessing gender-affirming care is a labyrinth of insurance coverage trap doors, referral letter hoops, and discriminatory falling axes. Social media and online communities are often the…

When Older Americans Month was established in 1963, only 17 million living Americans had reached their 65th birthday. A meeting in April 1963 between President John F.Kennedy and members of the National Council of Senior Citizens led to designating […]…

The new Inflation Reduction Act is being justly celebrated as the most significant piece of federal legislation to address the climate crisis to date. It includes about US$370 billion in…

Six years ago, Palm Health Foundation made a risky decision. Dissatisfied with the short-term gains of traditional responsive grantmaking, we launched the Healthier Together initiative in an effort to forge a deeper…

The government of The Gambia recently announced that the country had eliminated trachoma, a highly contagious eye disease, after years of hard work by health workers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and communities. In The Gambia,…

Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are family caregivers of someone age 65 and older who needs help because of a limitation in their physical, mental, or cognitive functioning.

Volunteers stack hundreds of diapers at the Nashville Diaper Connection. (Photo by Mark Zalesk, The Tennessean) Babies need plenty of naps a…