On January 15th, the UHC was honored to host Dr. Julia Lynch, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Co-Director of the Lauder Institute at Penn’s Wharton School of ...

The National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM’s) leadership is of central importance to progress on recognition, understanding, and engagement of the health impact of social factors, signals, and biases in ...

Interventions that focus on 'modifiable' factors such as access to healthy food, health insurance, and spaces for physical activity are shown to reduce disparities, according to new interprofessional ...

This study provides insight on the experiences of patients of a national health plan with 2 structural determinants of health—health care discrimination and health literacy—and how those interact with ...

"Our work shows the importance of geography in health and how geography acts as a structural determinant of health," Cheney said. "For example, foreign-born caregivers who speak Spanish or Purépecha ...

A global report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) highlights that the underlying causes of ill health often stem from factors beyond the health sector, such as lack of quality housing, ...

In a recent study published in Vaccine, researchers investigated clinically significant predictors of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination uptake among individuals with social and medical ...

About The Study: In this study, associations of structural and social determinants of health with mortality persisted with adjustment for percentage African genetic ancestry. The findings support the ...

Obesity is an epidemic in the United States. It has been increasing among adults of all races and ethnicities over the last two decades; however, obesity is higher among Non-Hispanic Black adults, ...