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Blaming moms: How miscommunication on epigenetics is a threat to women’s health
Laura Pemberton was in labor and ready to give birth at her home in Florida when a sheriff arrived at…
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What’s really driving health inequalities
The U.S. and other wealthy nations have practically eliminated all of the infectious diseases that seemed to account for the…
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How social position affects health behavior
People whose socioeconomic status is low are more likely to act in ways that harm their health compared with those…
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Radio series looks beyond medical care for New York’s least healthy county
The Bronx has ranked as the least-healthy county in New York State for several years running. The news team at…
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Connections between housing, health: Finding stories and getting the reporting right
Megan Sandel, M.D., M.P.H., an expert on the impact of housing on child health, says journalists would do well to…
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New key concept: The inequality of violent injury and death
The statistics are hard to believe. The most dangerous counties in the United States have rates of violent death that…
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Missing context in reports on diabetic amputations
People with diabetes in the lowest income neighborhoods of California were 10 times more likely to lose lower extremities to…
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Exploring the geography of violent death
Measured by rates of violent death, the most dangerous counties in the United States have rates that are more than…
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Going deep on hospital closures and their human impact
Pittsburgh’s dominant health system closed a hospital in the economically depressed town of Braddock four years ago and soon after…
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What do you really know about the social determinants of health?
It’s hard to think clearly about Health Policy if you ignore the social determinants of health, that is, how each…