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 ...

Health systems research plays a critical role in understanding and improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of healthcare delivery. This field explores societal organization around shared ...

Any project, supported or not by a committee, that is currently being worked on or is considered active, and will have an end date. A collaborative program between the FDA Center for Tobacco Products ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The global role of the WHO lies in its establishment and monitoring of international standards or guidelines, helping to standardize healthcare services and goals worldwide. In addition, it helps ...

This brief gives an overview of health challenges across the Pacific Islands region and identifies the need for development partners such as the United States to reframe their approach to health ...

Objective: Public deliberations are an increasingly popular tool to engage citizens in the development of health policies and programmes. However, limited research has been conducted on how to best ...

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 ...

Three themes dominate current federal policy discussions of health care reform: transforming the health care system toward value-based care that responds to both medical and social determinants of ...

A collaborative program between the FDA Center for Tobacco Products and the NAM, this 12-month, multidisciplinary residential program is designed for mid-career professionals to gain experience and ...