Research

Undocumented migrants are denied care not because of their legal status but because of their lack of photo identification.

The high percentage of psychological distress among Guam’s indigenous Chamorros speaks to the intergenerational trauma inflicted by colonization.

Individual differences in autism spectrum disorder symptoms may become lost in the diagnostic chasm depending upon where the diagnosis is made.

The authors propose a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to investigate health care systems and health outcomes as a way to reckon with US health disparities and structural inequities and move forward.

Eating processed foods became necessary for survival, but firmly established unhealthy eating patterns in the American territories of the Pacific Islands.

The Covid-19 pandemic has both increased the urgency of increasing access to medications for opioid use disorder and prompted an easing of regulations.

U.S. colonial and military activity has created legacies of environmental pollution in the U.S. Pacific territories of Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Pandemic-related financial hardship has created an extreme eviction and housing crisis among low-income and predominantly minority communities already economically marginalized and experiencing high levels of Covid-19 infection and death.

Providing PrEP on college campuses will assist in the fight to end the HIV epidemic. Students seeking sexual health care in college health clinic settings deserve to hear about the options that allow them to best protect themselves.

Identifying and reducing risky influences, such as drinking partners, and promoting positive influences can reduce the risk for driving under the influence.