How deadly is poverty in America? Why isn't it a public health crisis?
Poverty contributes to hundreds of thousands of American deaths a year, a recent American Medical Association study finds.
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Poverty contributes to hundreds of thousands of American deaths a year, a recent American Medical Association study finds.
Contact: Timothy S. Paul tp2111@columbia.edu 212-305-2676 Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health 1 in 5 Americans, Black and White, die from obesity -- nearly 3 times previous estimates Obesity is a lot more deadly than previously thought. Across recent decades, obesity accounted for 18 percent of deaths among Black and White Americans between the…
Just a few years ago, concepts such as "white supremacy," "systemic racism," and "structural intersectionality" were not the standard fare of prestigious medical journals. These are now the guiding ideas in a February special issue of Health...
The cultural trauma of marginalized groups blocks access to resources and causes deep psychological and physical injuries
A pair of researchers at the University of California, Riverside, has proposed a new model of "cultural trauma" that describes how traumas such as colonization, hate crimes, and recent anti-immigrant media and policies may drive health disparities in many U.S. cultural groups.