The Affordable Care Act employs two main strategies for expanding health insurance coverage--first, by extending Medicaid to millions of additional low-income people, and second, by allowing ...

The federal government announced Monday it’s approved $205 million for the first year of Wyoming’s rural health program. Part ...

HOSPITALS & HEALTH PLANNING. In the U.S., the hospital attained its "modern" institutional form by 1900-10, having passed through 3 more or less distinct stages. During the 19th century, the hospital ...

Pair students and leaders in public health and ask them to solve tough ethical questions. What do you get? Better answers for all of us. Dolores Alvarado is the Chief Executive Officer of Community ...

New York state will end its Essential Plan health insurance program, which covers 1.7 million low- and middle-income New Yorkers, due to a loss of $7.5 billion in federal funding. The change, which is ...

The plan will address Kentucky-specific health care issues such as high rates of chronic disease, maternity care deserts and ...

Firefighting is a demanding occupation. Considerable physical fitness and mental fortitude are required to perform an array of challenging tasks. The public belief is that firefighters, career or ...

This past July 30, we celebrated the 49th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid. Readers of this column will recall it was on that date in 1965 when President Lyndon Baines Johnson formally signed ...

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Air, land, and water pollution caused 9 million premature deaths in 2016, or 16% of all deaths worldwide. About 92% of all pollution-related mortality is seen in low-income and middle-income countries ...