Health Equity

The 2024 U.S. elections will shape the future of global health policy, determining whether the nation will continue to provide crucial leadership to advance global health. 

Capnographs—simple medical devices that monitor a patient's breathing during surgery—can dramatically lower anesthesia-related complications and deaths, but they are often not available at all in many low-resource countries.  

An estimated 400,000 children and adolescents worldwide develop cancer each year. But only half are ever diagnosed—and where a child lives can determine whether they survive that diagnosis.

Findings suggest high risk of erroneous blood pressure readings for 6.7 percent of the U.S. adult population

A recent article by Catherine Ettman, PhD, examines how emerging evidence highlights the significant influence of economic and social conditions on population and individual health.