Research

New health technologies such as patient portals often require quality internet access, but there is a digitial divide: over 24 million Americans do not have high-speed internet.

A pilot study by Cardel and colleagues looks for a link between a person’s sense of resources and privilege and their eating, a potential pathway to obesity.

Simply teaching medical trainees about the social determinants of health may not be enough. The ways in which the SDOH are often framed—as facts to be known rather than conditions to be changed—may in fact uphold inequities.

Veterans treatment courts are a hybrid of mental health and drug courts and seek to address the needs of veterans who have been charged with criminal offenses.

Research suggests that, even when we try to actively avoid BPA-contaminated foods, exposure is inevitable. Both the FDA and FSA report that BPA levels in our food and environment are not cause for concern.

For municipal dwellers getting water from the tap, there is a cost to water pollution. Urban water treatment costs at the treatment plant depend on the water quality at the city’s source, which in turn depends on the land use in watersheds.

US military duty-related deaths can put military children and widowed spouses at higher risk for complicated grief, PTSD, and depression.

Children who are bullied are at higher risk for negative consequences. A recent study by Sugimura and colleagues explored whether early social behaviors in school make youth more likely to be bullied and remain bullied over time.

Between 2006 and 2015, emergency departments in the United States treated an estimated 639,505 individuals for bunk-bed-related injuries. The most common injury within jails involved falling out of a bunk bed.

Communities must work together at the local and regional level to plan and prepare for extreme weather. Risk models and zoning may be outdated, making some areas particularly vulnerable to extreme weather events.