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 ...

Objectives To characterise psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic among collegiate athletes and assess whether racial and ethnic differences in psychological distress are attenuated when ...

Residential segregation and neighborhood-level socioeconomic inequality are central dimensions of social stratification and structural determinants of health. These factors determine exposure to ...

Associations Between Nutritional Status, Sleep Quality, and Clinical Factors in Patients With Metastatic Prostate Cancer Over 10 million people in the United States are incarcerated annually. Although ...

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, ...

Improving food security brings benefits beyond helping to reduce the prevalence of obesity and addressing health disparities. It helps provide children with adequate nourishment so they can stay ...

Health outcomes are profoundly influenced by the social, economic, political and environmental contexts in which people live. Factors such as income, educational attainment, housing quality, ...

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the authors of a study published in the February 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about their findings on how health plans ...