Local and personal factors, such as neighborhood, race, gender, and age, significantly influence our mental health status. Between 2000 and 2020, for example, rural communities experienced a 46 ...

Health equity and health equality both aim to improve outcomes and increase access to services, especially for underserved populations and marginalized groups. Equity and equality in healthcare are ...

Public health policies are laws, regulations, and decisions undertaken by governments and health organizations to promote and protect people’s health. Public health policies refer to the decisions and ...

Shekinah A. Fashaw-Walters ([email protected]), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Cydney M. McGuire, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Racial and ethnic health inequities are ...

As the national organization representing nearly 50,000 physicians and other health care professionals specializing in cancer treatment, diagnosis, prevention, and research, ASCO supports effective ...

Gilbert Gee and Annie Ro depict systemic racism as the hidden base of an iceberg 10 (see illustration in online appendix exhibit 1). 11 The iceberg’s visible part represents the overt racism that ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans’ views of health issues facing the country today, the influence of various groups and institutions on health policy, and the federal ...

Over the past few decades, we’ve come a long way in how we view and talk about mental health. And that should come as no surprise, because 1 in 5 adults in the United States lives with a mental health ...

The GOP is pointing to a new Government Accountability Office report on subsidy fraud to argue against extending enhanced ACA ...

The health secretary pick and his organization have worked around the world to undermine longstanding policies on measles, AIDS and more. By Selam Gebrekidan Justin Scheck Sarah Hurtes and Pete ...