This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Meeting America’s Public Health Challenge.” This series includes articles that reflect on and are inspired by a report of the same ...

Despite being vulnerable to depression, trauma, and PTSD, refugees remain on the periphery of mental health treatment. Researchers discuss why this is and possible solutions.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Sunday on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger offered Barack Obama a helping hand. While ...

Health care costs are growing at a rate that continues to outpace our ability to afford them, placing unsustainable pressure on US families and our state and federal governments. As health care ...

Establishing mobile health clinics in rural settings requires collaboration across health systems by aligning missions, building infrastructure to support research, and demonstrating proof of concept.

A look back on the health lessons we learned from the pandemic. (Getty Images) This month marks the four-year anniversary of the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. During the months on ...

We’re witnessing massive demographic and market shifts that will accelerate the race to value-based healthcare. Case in point: The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) predicts that Medicare ...

This case study describes Tennessee’s process for convening key stakeholders to develop uniform payment guidelines to encourage increased preventive service delivery. Objectives: To describe Tennessee ...

New programs like Hospital-at-Home and Acute-Care-at-Home are giving health systems an opportunity to reduce inpatient traffic and give patients the care they need in their own homes. Editor's note: ...

The inescapable pain and death of war have also produced many of the medical breakthroughs that have enhanced our health in peacetime. The Civil War created advances in surgical techniques. World Wars ...