Why do people get sick? Ask Robert F. Kennedy Jr., America’s highest-ranking public-health official, and he may chalk it up to their terrain. For centuries, doctors and scientists have agreed that ...

In recent months, the U.S. government has taken steps to defund and dismantle key infectious disease programs, including a National Institutes of Health lab that has contributed to groundbreaking work ...

A recent report by The Lancet, "Countdown on Health and Climate Change," found that 10 out of 15 indicators tracking environmental health hazards, exposures, and impacts have hit record levels, ...

By Hugo Francisco de Souza A global analysis shows that who gets the chance to exercise is shaped by wealth and gender, while mounting evidence reveals that regular movement protects far more than the ...

A meta-analysis of 168 studies covering more than 11 million people found no reliable link between economic inequality and well-being or mental health. In other words, living in a place that has large ...

Traditional economic theories assume that individuals only care about their own income when it comes to supporting redistribution policies. However, an international team of researchers from the ...

The team reviewed over 10,000 abstracts from ten international databases covering psychology, sociology, economics, epidemiology, and public health. After a rigorous selection process, 168 studies ...