Residence in a more disadvantaged neighborhood was associated with higher likelihood of being a high-cost utilizer among older adults and lower likelihood among younger adults. Objectives: To assess ...

This year’s United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is focusing on human, territorial, and planetary health. The Permanent Forum is in its 22nd session. A recent report, “Indigenous ...

The settings in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, and age are known as social determinants of health or SDOH. These non-medical elements influence a wide range of health, functional, and ...

CHICAGO — Health equity is about fair and just care for everyone, and there’s no quality in healthcare without equity, Jillian Rose-Smith, PhD, MPH, MSW, vice president and chief equity officer at ...

Food insecurity, low household income and not having private health insurance are associated with higher rates of prediabetes in adolescents, independent of race and ethnicity, according to a new JAMA ...

Prediction models combining claims data with social determinants of health and additional, more-timely data sources using artificial intelligence (AI) can better identify individuals with the highest ...

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer type. Each year, more than 250,000 men in the U.S. find out that they have it. The good news is that most people with prostate cancer will live for 5 ...

As a psychiatrist working with marginalized and underserved individuals, I see firsthand how poverty impacts health and timely access to healthcare. How can we treat depression in a patient who ...

Flipping the food pyramid and banning SNAP for 'junk food' don't address class, race, and other social determinants of health ...