Rev Public News Today

How can consulting psychiatrists help the team provide culturally appropriate care for diverse patient populations?

Research on the state of health care, health outcomes, and health inequities in the criminal justice system continually advocates for structural-level reform and the recognition that carceral health issues are in fact public health issues.

Advances in drinking water infrastructure and treatment throughout the 20th and early 21st century dramatically improved water reliability and quality in the United States (US) and other parts of the world. However, numerous chemical contaminants from a range of anthropogenic and natural sources continue to pose chronic health concerns, even in countries with established drinking water regulations, such as the US. In this review, we summarize exposure risk profiles and health effects for seven l...

New research shows that fall death rates for adults over 65 increased in both rate and number since 1999, indicating the necessity of more work toward fall prevention and reducing fall-related mortality.

Clinical calculators that do not include demographic variables may be biased, and their equity should be understood in the context of clinical guidelines.

In a shock-prone world, city-level thinking is a new approach to optimizing the brain health and brain skills of citizens.

Examining the association between meat intake and life expectancy at a population level based on ecological data published by the United Nations agencies

This study aimed to assess social media practices during COVID-19 and investigated their impact on users’ well-being.

Racism in the United States has been cited as a key driver of racial health inequities. Racism as a public health crisis has been in the forefront, particularly with respect to state and municipal governments that have developed legislation, resolutions and declarations. This policy brief includes a review of resolutions and declarations across the US related to Racism as a Public Health Crisis through September 2020. There were 125 resolutions reviewed for content related to the history of raci...

Credit: Getty Images Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on suicide deaths for the year 2020 were published in the  Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). According to the new data, deaths by suicide declined from 47,511 to 44,834 (5.6%) between 2019 and 2020. 1 Suicide has reportedly decreased from the tenth to the eleventh leading cause of death as COVID-19 became the third leading cause of death.  We spoke to Dr Christine Yu Moutier, ...