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May 2024
Context: Recent legislative privacy efforts have not included special provisions for public health data use. Although past studies documented support… More
March 2024
After celebrating the centennial anniversary of the Milbank Quarterly in 2023, we begin the process of plotting the journal’s next century with an… More
Racial inequities in health and well-being began in the United States with colonization and slavery and have persisted as direct consequences of… More
February 2024
When the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) published their framework for the social… More
Faced with urgent threats to human health and well-being such as climate change, calls among the academic community are getting louder to contribute… More
Health policymakers have insufficiently addressed care for people with obesity (body mass index [BMI] ≥ 30 kg/m2) in the United States. Current… More
Over the last decade, health care sector activities related to identifying and addressing patients’ social drivers of health have graduated from… More
January 2024
Context: Whether income inequality has a direct effect on health or is only associated because of the effect of individual income has long been… More
Virtually all modern medical devices now include embedded software, ranging from basic user interfaces and network connectivity to sophisticated… More
Our scoping review provides a roadmap of the questions being asked about the 340B program and an initial synthesis of the answers. More