Climate change poses a growing threat to health care systems worldwide, exposing weaknesses in infrastructure, workforce, and governance. Climate risk—defined by the interaction of hazard, exposure, ...

The US health care system significantly contributes to climate change while increasingly facing its adverse consequences. Despite this dual challenge, policy efforts to incentivize carbon reduction ...

Cold-related illnesses (CRIs) are preventable yet often deadly. Using twenty-five years of data from the National Inpatient Sample (1998–2022), we assessed nationwide trends in CRI hospitalizations ...

Outdoor workers face growing exposure to poor air quality, wildfire smoke, and extreme heat, yet protections remain uneven across states and incomplete federally, and little is known about outdoor ...

Extreme heat is a complex public health problem driven by interactions at the individual, community, health system, and policy levels. Participatory systems science engages interested parties to ...

Recent increases in Medicaid mental health reimbursement represent one of the most widespread state-level efforts to address ...

Court-ordered restorations of federally censored public health websites are being subverted by use of disclaimers that ...

It is always heartening when funders and public officials recognize the value of mobile health. But without long-term ...

Every policy is a health policy. It may seem obvious, but our laws and regulations are rarely developed with this in mind.

Amid funding constraints, evidence-based, child-focused interventions to address clinical and social needs can be leveraged ...

By promoting transparency, competition, and institutional accountability, the NIH could reward scientific excellence and ...

Extreme heat events have been demonstrated to increase emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality, but evidence of their impacts on the associated costs and on outpatient use is ...