Population Health

This perspective highlights the tectonic changes in US states’ policy contexts in recent decades and their profound impact on population health. More

From Aristotle to Fredrich Engels, great thinkers have hypothesized that access to resources, such as knowledge, money, health care, and housing, are more important for health than any medicines a physician could offer. More

Cities are the spaces in which people live, work, and play, and they are also environments that shape the health, culture, and organization of populations in the 21st century. More

Policies that redress oppressive social, economic, and political conditions are essential for improving population health and achieving health equity. Efforts to remedy structural oppression and its deleterious effects should account for its multilevel, multifaceted, interconnected, systemic, and intersectional nature. More

Notwithstanding its status as a world leader in developing the latest health care advances as well as for spending on health care, the United States has continued to fall behind other developed countries in health rankings. More

Solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change can have important health cobenefits. A vital component of these policy solutions is that they must also take into consideration historic issues of environmental justice and racism, and implementation of these policies must have a strong equity lens. More

A slide show featuring The Milbank Quarterly centennial issue themes and selected articles. More

A public policy agenda that aims to address inequities related to the well-being of children, creation and perpetuation of residential segregation, and racial segregation can address upstream factors. More

The health of urban populations is dramatically influenced by the urban context, including its social, economic, environmental, and political conditions, in both positive and negative ways. More

This year marks the 100th anniversary of The Milbank Quarterly. More