While the term health equity is used widely, a common understanding of what it means is lacking. What is health equity? In a report designed to increase consensus around meaning of health equity, the ...

The Health Insurance Marketplace and Medicaid are important sources of coverage in farm states, with between one-fifth and one-third of the states’ populations enrolled in these two programs.

A series of policy briefs include evidence-based recommendations to help people through the immediate health and economic crises and longer-term recommendations to ensure a fair and just opportunity ...

Healthcare providers would lose more than $770 billion in revenue over the next decade under the congressional spending bill passed by the House of Representatives.

Busting the stereotype of men as breadwinners and women as caregivers benefits families and our economy. New research reveals conditions and supports needed for men to fulfill their caregiver roles.

More than 15% of adults in the U.S. report past-due medical debt, with nearly 73% owing some or all of that debt to hospitals.

A brief provides background on federal and state paid family leave policies (PFL), highlights domestic and international research that shows PFL provides a range of benefits, and lays out principles ...

The structural barriers that prevent Black men from being present in their children's lives must be addressed.

An antiracist paradigm for community development along with actions by investors, government, and philanthropy can move the U.S. toward more racially just financing.

For communities and their residents to recover fully and fairly from COVID-19, state and local leaders should consider five health equity principles in designing and implementing their responses.

Closing the Medicaid coverage gap would save lives, reduce health care costs and help eliminate the racial and ethnic health disparities that have persisted for generations.

Although 41 states have expanded eligibility for Medicaid coverage as part of the Affordable Care Act, a study shows that coverage could be in jeopardy for millions of people if federal funding to ...