Health

Access to healthcare is a gender equality issue, Global Citizen lays out the reasons why you can’t achieve one without the other.

Earlier this year, actor Bruce Willis and his family announced his diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a neurodegenerative disorder that includes cognitive, neurological, and psychiatric symptoms. The family’s statement echoed…

Two-thirds of new HIV infections are among gay and bisexual men. Although cases have decreased among white men, they have stagnated among communities of color.

Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is an essential building block to achieving gender equality, but it’s restricted globally. Families everywhere are trapped in cycles of poverty because they…

Research shows that focusing strictly on weight loss is not only ineffective in the long term, it can even be harmful and counterproductive.

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COP28 holds its first Health Day as concern grows about the effects of climate change – from disease outbreaks to air pollution.

Over the past decade, many health foundations have shifted from funding specific programs to addressing social determinants of health by supporting policy and systems change strategies Abundant research has demonstrated that low-income communities of color face structural barriers to health that…

To save lives, communities need the resources to move from reactive to proactive approaches in response to these health threats. However, they face large hurdles in accessing money. More than 90…

A recent Urban event brought together experts on rural health equity to offer strategies for rural practitioners to form partnerships, use data, and access financing to address health challenges.

For the study in the Journal of Research on Adolescence, researchers examined how structural oppression and anti-LGBTQ policies in individual US states intersect and can predict suicide risk. “Our research suggests…

The key to healing in an epidemic of loneliness is found in local communities that address social isolation as a public health concern.