Research

Researchers measured racism at the county level in the United States and evaluated its association with body mass index.

Researchers explored if the different colonial histories between Samoa and American Samoa created health differences among the people who live there.

The percentage of rap songs referencing suicide, depression and mental health increased dramatically during the study period from 1998-2018.

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.