Addressing maternal health disparities in American Indian and Alaska Native communities will require identifying data gaps ...

The budget bill would create millions of newly uninsured, increase consumers’ premiums, and impose new barriers on Americans’ ...

A new strategy takes a step toward creating systems that understand and address family caregivers’ needs, building on ...

In North Carolina, eligibility for Medicaid and other social services is completed by county staff, which consists of 100 ...

Introduction. For at least the past two decades, the United States and other countries around the world have been bracing for a shortage of physicians, a problem that has reached crisis proportions in ...

Sarah Christie, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an associate research scientist in the Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC) at the Yale School of Medicine, and a senior fellow for the Commonwealth Fund. Her ...

While nearly all Americans age 65 and older are covered by Medicare, their experiences seeking and receiving health care can vary significantly. Research shows that older Black and Latinx Medicare ...

The system works pretty well and only minor changes are necessary to make it work better 2016 Overall Views of Health Care System 44% n/a 35% n/a n/a 44% 54% 60% n/a n/a n/a n/a 43% 41% 59% n/a 31% 58 ...

There is a behavioral health crisis in the United States — a crisis in our inability to prevent, identify, and treat mental illness and substance use and to support people who experience or are in ...

As part of 2025 budget reconciliation, Congress is expected to consider unprecedented cuts to Medicaid funding, with several House members stating their intention to “fix flaws in the program that ...

In 2017, at a time when maternal mortality was declining worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the U.S. was one of only two countries (along with the Dominican Republic) to ...

SHANOOR SEERVAI: Nurses make up the largest share of the health care workforce. This means that most of the care received by patients in the U.S. is delivered by nurses, and the dominance of nurses is ...