Local and personal factors, such as neighborhood, race, gender, and age, significantly influence our mental health status. Between 2000 and 2020, for example, rural communities experienced a 46 ...

Public health policies are laws, regulations, and decisions undertaken by governments and health organizations to promote and protect people’s health. Public health policies refer to the decisions and ...

As the national organization representing nearly 50,000 physicians and other health care professionals specializing in cancer treatment, diagnosis, prevention, and research, ASCO supports effective ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans’ views of health issues facing the country today, the influence of various groups and institutions on health policy, and the federal ...

Gilbert Gee and Annie Ro depict systemic racism as the hidden base of an iceberg 10 (see illustration in online appendix exhibit 1). 11 The iceberg’s visible part represents the overt racism that ...

Health inequity refers to avoidable differences in health between different groups of people. Examples of health inequity include lower life expectancy, high rates of mental ill-health, and difficulty ...

Over the past few decades, we’ve come a long way in how we view and talk about mental health. And that should come as no surprise, because 1 in 5 adults in the United States lives with a mental health ...