Interventions that address socioeconomic determinants of health are receiving considerable attention from policy makers and health care executives. The interest is fueled in part by expected returns ...

New report from CAP’s Meredith King details how prevention can be used to decrease racial and ethnic health disparities. —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Despite the overall improved health of Americans ...

The HealthPartners Institute is embarking on a study to help determine whether health workers who encourage people to live healthier lives can drive down long-term emergency or hospitalization costs ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Minority and low-income populations have less involvement in their cancer care, experience worse health-related ...

Rep. Christensen (D-VI) joined an expert panel to discuss a new report on how we can begin reducing racial and ethnic health disparities. “We will no longer tolerate a nation with health disparities,” ...

In the past 18 months, the public health crisis of COVID-19 has mercilessly aggravated another public health crisis in America: gun violence. Last year alone, gun homicides and shootings spiked by at ...

“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets,” physician and health-policy expert Paul Batalden said. 1 This much-repeated quote captures a way to conceptualize equitable ...

The burden of hypertension is escalating, and control rates are poor in low- and middle-income countries. Cardiovascular mortality is high in rural areas. We conducted a cluster-randomized, controlled ...

Nurse Dawn Daly-Mack tends a patient at the Community Health Center at Halifax Regional in Halifax County, North Carolina. The health center is attached to the hospital's emergency department. Photo ...

CITY. IT’S ABOUT EVOLVING AND CONNECTIVITY. ACCORDING TO MAYOR BRANDON SCOTT HE ANNOUNCED FRIDAY A NEW OPERATING MODEL FOR SAFE STREETS BASED ON RESULTS OF A STUDY ON COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION ...