The core components of health-related fitness include cardiovascular and muscular endurance, flexibility, and your body’s ratio of fat compared to muscle and bone. It’s well known that being ...

Health equity means ensuring everyone has the chance to be as healthy as possible. However, factors outside of a person’s control can prevent them from achieving their best health. Examples of these ...

Health inequity refers to avoidable differences in health between different groups of people. Examples of health inequity include lower life expectancy, high rates of mental ill-health, and difficulty ...

Over the past few decades, we’ve come a long way in how we view and talk about mental health. And that should come as no surprise, because 1 in 5 adults in the United States lives with a mental health ...

As the national organization representing nearly 50,000 physicians and other health care professionals specializing in cancer treatment, diagnosis, prevention, and research, ASCO supports effective ...

Health-related social needs such as food insecurity and unreliable transportation are increasingly recognized as significant determinants of health and well-being. 1, 2 Despite their importance, ...

At the direction of the Trump administration, the federal Department of Health and Human Services and its agencies are purging its websites of information and data on a broad array of topics — from ...

Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is part of an urgent prescription for health across the planet. Global greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced by nearly half during the next decade to maintain ...