Research

Parents assume their child will be treated fairly and with respect at childcare facilities, but children of color may be experiencing bias from the adults caring for them.

People live to age 100 or older are a rapidly expanding subgroup of the older adult population. The answer to their longevity might be sleep, satisfaction, and support.

The Trump Administration has pursued a strategy of reducing federal government responsibility for environmental protection and devolving responsibility to the states.

A review of 54 studies identified ways in which Google Street View has been used for public health research, including gathering data on neighborhood green space and health policy compliance.

Sex robots are here to stay. Public health professionals need to be involved in the development, design, and research of sexbots and their impact on health.

Lane and colleagues analyzed hospital discharge, death certificate, and medical examiner data to identify deaths and illness caused by cold weather in New York City to understand who is most at risk.

Over more than five decades, Medicaid has become the nation’s largest public health program and one of its most indispensable. Its sheer size and budgetary demands represent an ongoing challenge, even as its revenue helps fuel state economies.

Health insurance is one of the many elements of a young adult’s life that keeps changing. Insurers call these changes “churning,” or rolling from one type of health plan to the next.

Black churches have the potential to increase the effectiveness of the support they provide to congregants—Black men in particular.

Heroin lasts in the human body for just a few minutes before being converted into morphine and other compounds. This complicates the task of a medical examiner trying to identify the substance that caused an overdose death.