Tag: social determinants of health
Literature inspired my medical career: Why the humanities are needed in...
Irène Mathieu, University of Virginia
While there is a long history of doctor-poets – one giant of mid-20th-century poetry,...
Fixing the global childhood obesity epidemic begins with making healthy choices...
Kathleen Trejo Tello, College of Charleston
The global childhood obesity epidemic has exploded. Over the past four decades, the...
Tuberculosis on the rise for first time in decades after COVID-19...
Carlos Franco-Paredes, Colorado State University
Before SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spread across the world in 2020, tuberculosis...
This course teaches students how to connect with older adults to...
Jeremy Holloway, University of North Dakota
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation...
Medical technologies have been central to US pandemic response – but...
Eyal Oren, San Diego State University
Before COVID-19, there was tuberculosis. Twentieth century British physician Thomas McKeown controversially proposed...
Mixed-ancestry genetic research shows a bit of Native American DNA could...
Diane Xue, University of Washington and Hanley Kingston, University of Washington
Since the human genome was first mapped, scientists...
Pain of police killings ripples outward to traumatize Black people and...
Denise A. Herd, University of California, Berkeley
It’s been one year since George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police...
EXPLORING NATURE
3 years after the Marshall Fire: Wildfire smoke’s health risks can...
Colleen E. Reid, University of Colorado Boulder
Three years ago, on Dec. 30, 2021, a wind-driven wildfire raced through...
