Amitava Banerjee and colleagues argue that an approach to ethnicity that more accurately considers social and behavioural determinants of health is needed to reduce health inequalities Ethnic ...

The university has adopted race-conscious hiring policies, potentially in violation of civil rights law.

The SVI is based on four county-level data categories: socioeconomic status; household characteristics; racial and ethnic ... Even race—while more controversial—is not an entirely unfounded inclusion.

New cases of dementia in the United States declined from 2015 to 2021, but the number of people living with the condition ...

The law intends to benefit a long list of groups, including low-income households; people 60 and older; people incarcerated in non-federal facilities; veterans; people with disabilities; people with ...

Psychiatrists in the late 19th century were ‘lending the authority of medicine to pathologize one of the central sources of ...

The shares of Americans who say they know and trust their neighbors have both decreased slightly in recent years. In 2018, 31 ...

About half of U.S. adults say healthiness of food is important when deciding what to eat. But taste and cost matter more.

A high school ethnic studies requirement was to take effect in the fall, but a lack of funding — and antisemitism allegations — appear likely to derail it.

It has also shown that their use can exclude those who do not fit into a specific category and obscure substructure in populations, with implications for human health. For example, the likelihood ...

U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order this week targeting the non-government agencies that accredit universities and other higher-education institutions, saying that some promote ...