Specifically, they chose to allocate only 19–20 percent of their dollars on health care and 49–50 percent on food and housing. In recent years, the term “social determinants of health” has ...

Journal of Health and Social Behavior (JHSB) publishes articles that apply sociological concepts and methods to the understanding of health, illness, and medicine in their social context.Its editorial ...

The secretary of state for health and social care, Wes Streeting, has ordered a rapid national investigation into NHS maternity services in England to tackle “systemic problems dating back over 15 ...

As health care providers increase their emphasis on social determinants of health, it is important to understand how unstable housing contributes to complications during pregnancy. We linked data ...

The go-broke date — or the date at which the programs will no longer have enough funds to pay full benefits — was pushed up ...

Decades of strict sentencing laws, the racially motivated “War on Drugs,” and simultaneous erosion of community mental health and social services have contributed to the American public health ...

The deaths of huge numbers of the elderly in our care homes due to COVID-19 made clear the need to integrate our health and social care services. Here’s what needs to be done.

It’s especially difficult for the families of undocumented immigrant children living in New Jersey to get care because they are ineligible for public health insurance through Medicaid and the ...

About two-thirds of Americans (65%) say it is the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage, while roughly a third (34%) say it does not. Americans are ...

This year’s ‘Social Care - Making a Difference’ campaign launched today (11 June 2025) at Camphill Community Clanabogan, at a ...