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Quarterly Topic
Quarterly Opinion
January 2025 Neil K. Mehta, Jennifer Beam Dowd,
Despite our best public health efforts (and a zealous diet industry), the rising tide of obesity continues unabated. New classes of diabetes… More
Quarterly Article
January 2025 Stephanie B. Gold, Allison Costello, Maura Gissen, Selin Odman, Larry A. Green, Kurt C. Stange, Réna Swann, Rebecca S. Etz,
Context: Frustration with the burden of proliferating measures in health care focused on diseases and care processes has added to the growing desire… More
December 2024 Sara Rosenbaum,
Medicaid’s size tells you everything you need to know about its prospects during a second Trump administration, the amount of energy that opponents… More
November 2024 Heidi L. Allen, Jamie R. Daw,
Rates of maternal mortality in the United States increased sharply during the Covid-19 pandemic, with evidence of widening racial disparities.1… More
September 2024 David Rosner, Gerald Markowitz,
The social and economic arrangements Americans have created and maintained have shaped patterns of disease occurrence, prevalence, distribution, and recovery over the course of the country’s history. More
August 2024 Thelma C. Hurd, Fay Cobb Payton, Darryl B. Hood,
Artificial intelligence is being embraced as the solution to mitigate differences in health and health outcomes. More
July 2024 Harold A. Pollack, Eshan Dosani,
Working in the fields of substance use and harm reduction, we encounter the suffering and trauma experienced by study participants, community… More
July 2024 Sara Rosenbaum, MaryBeth Musumeci,
New federal court decisions have delayed the implementation of new rules protecting health care for transgender people issued under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. More
June 2024 Kanika Arora, Douglas A. Wolf,
This study finds that offering paid sick leave and paid family leave, when combined with job protection, could support potential family caregivers. More
June 2024 David H. Rehkopf,
Civil rights and health equity advocates in the allied fields of population health have worked for decades to get more funding and attention for… More