The determinant of health that likely has the greatest impact on public health and health equity may be the one most public health professionals have the least to say: the ideological direction of the country.
During public health crises, the use of art to convey messages of social change is not a new idea.
Right now, according to public health officials, about half a million U.S. kids have blood lead levels that could harm their health. However, new research finds many more children — hundreds of thousands more — are likely going unidentified.
A disproportionate level of workplace violence occurs in the health care industry. Nurses, in particular, endure a huge share of the abuse.
Geographic mapping tools can illustrate the burden of pollution and population characteristics. They are tools that provide evidence of environmental injustice and for public health interventions to address it.
The California Endowment’s “Building Healthy Communities” is addressing and eliminating disparities through efforts that change community conditions to become healthier, rather than on a focus on clinical health care coverage.
Achieving health equity means changing the odds for people, rather than expecting people to beat the odds.
A report by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health examines the relationship between opioid overdose deaths and the work-related injury rates in the victims’ occupation and industry groups.
Two years ago today, President Obama signed into law bipartisan amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act. Its goal was to address the health risk of the thousands of untested and unregulated chemicals, but EPA’s Scott Pruitt is undermining the law.
The tax code overhaul is pressing on, with a full Senate vote coming later this week. As the seemingly chaotic drama unfolds in Washington, DC, our collective health and well-being awaits its fate.