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Refugees from travel ban countries make up only 6% of all refugees in the United States.

The gender pay gap begins to affect women shortly after college, when they have similar experience and qualifications as their male counterparts.

The Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) creates a $45 billion fund for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment. However, this amount is unlikely to overcome Medicaid spending restrictions proposed in the bill.

A recent JAMA article by Gibbons, et al. demonstrates that the national suicide rate and the number of psychiatric beds have an inverse relationship.

Viz Hub’s interactive map of life expectancy in each US county dramatically illustrates that health is largely shaped by where you live and the conditions of your life.

Risk of suicide is a complex, multifaceted issue that is notoriously hard to gauge patient by patient, but the state of the economy can predict an uptick.

About half of all older adults in the United States are at risk for malnutrition, leaving them highly vulnerable. Targeted public health efforts to educate the elderly, their caregivers, and policymakers could be straightforward, but funding for these programs now hangs in the balance.

The website Understanding Homelessness tells the important story of homelessness in the U.S. through interactive visualizations, with an aim to fend off stigma and misconception.

Despite the “pursuit of happiness” being a right of all Americans, the U.S. is the 14th happiest country among the OECD. The relatively low ranking is partly explained by growing distrust in the federal government.

The United States spends far more on health than any other nation but does not have the health outcomes to show for it. What’s the key to getting more health for our money?