Before the ACA, 55 percent of woman between 18 and 34 reported struggling with the cost of birth control at some point. By declaring contraceptives preventive care, the ACA guaranteed patients, regardless of their economic status, the ability to shape their own lives. This guarantee is in jeopardy.
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The PHP team celebrates the beginning of summer with our favorite animal videos!
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Lack of uniformity in state or federal laws for crosswalk signal features leaves auditory crosswalks to the discretion of individual municipalities, resulting in inconsistent signals for those who are visually impaired.
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Jon Kingsdale, first director of the Massachusetts exchange, helped many states implement the ACA. He thinks bi-partisan ideas can be used to fix structural problems with the law.
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A discussion on Maine v. Hickox, Ebola quarantine, and what it means to be a public health advocate.
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What is the role of the artist activist in public health? Marian Brown describes her performance piece adDRESSing health: 7 dresses, 7 days a week, 52 weeks, 365 days a year.
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Brad Wright contemplates how different his experience with Guillain-Barré syndrome could have been without health insurance and access to health care.
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Lauren A. Taylor discusses the roles and responsibilities of academic institutions during the Trump administration, when affiliations and professional and personal boundaries can become less clear.
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William “Nick” Crow discusses THE RIDE, the challenges and gaps in accessibility presented by old architecture, and how the ADA has made countless tiny reconfigurations to our landscape.
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Facing warmer and wetter state weather, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services developed a model to address public health impacts of extreme weather and changing climate at the local level.
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