In the United States, 14 million children (approximately 19%) under the age of 18 and 61 million adults (approximately 26%) live with a special healthcare need. These needs are defined as having or ...

The onset and severity of disability – affecting either physical or mental health – profoundly impacts the lives of people and their families and incurs large economic and societal costs in terms of ...

The current demographic, social, and epidemiological transitions, the rapid increase of life expectancy, the recognition of social determinants of health, and the need to overcome the concept of ...

Building Health Throughout the Life Course elucidates how health develops and changes throughout the life course, and how the use of the life course approach among public health practitioners can ...