A narrative has taken hold that public health has failed the US. We argue instead that the US has chronically failed public health, and nowhere have these failures been more apparent than in rural ...

RCTs are considered the best way to determine whether a treatment is effective, and the reason is simple: researchers can hold all other variables constant across groups and study what happens when ...

Public health involves a collective social effort to enhance health and prevent communicable and non-communicable diseases. Public health fulfills its mission through organized, interdisciplinary ...

Health Affairs is planning a theme in January 2027 that will explore The Path Forward For Public Health. Our June 2024 theme issue on the topic assessed the state of public health after the COVID-19 ...