Despite increasingly frequent references to global health from media, scholars and students, the term is rarely defined. And when it is defined, it is often merely a rephrased definition of public ...

People have been defining and re-defining the word “health” for a long time now. Today the word most often refers to physical health, and the phrase “health care” has come to mean primarily care of ...

Meet Betty, a typical aging American. At 82, she spends almost as much time with her doctors as she does with her grandchildren. She has to. She takes seven prescription medications to treat her high ...

Editor’s note: Paula Braveman was one of the theme advisors for the June 2017 Health Affairs equity theme issue. Until recently, talking about “equity” as a health researcher in the United States ...

Not only do I think we need to revolutionize the way we as patients and healers collaborate; I also think we need to redefine how we think about health. It's time to think BIG, baby. "Health" is ...

What leads to happiness? The 2022 World Happiness Report (WHR) identified Finland as the happiest country. The United States slotted in at No. 16 — not bad when you consider the report ranked 146 ...