Laura Pemberton was in labor and ready to give birth at her home in Florida when a sheriff arrived at…
The U.S. and other wealthy nations have practically eliminated all of the infectious diseases that seemed to account for the…
People whose socioeconomic status is low are more likely to act in ways that harm their health compared with those…
The Bronx has ranked as the least-healthy county in New York State for several years running. The news team at…
Megan Sandel, M.D., M.P.H., an expert on the impact of housing on child health, says journalists would do well to…
The statistics are hard to believe. The most dangerous counties in the United States have rates of violent death that…
People with diabetes in the lowest income neighborhoods of California were 10 times more likely to lose lower extremities to…
Measured by rates of violent death, the most dangerous counties in the United States have rates that are more than…
Pittsburgh’s dominant health system closed a hospital in the economically depressed town of Braddock four years ago and soon after…
It’s hard to think clearly about Health Policy if you ignore the social determinants of health, that is, how each…