Recently the Institute of Medicine challenged our leaders to take a principled approach to achieving universal health insurance coverage in the U.S. by 2010. The president’s new budget fails to meet ...

More than half of the global population — at least 4.5 billion people — did not have coverage or access to essential health services in 2021. That’s according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

As an American living in Germany and working for an international conservation organization, I find that most everyday people I speak with do not realize that in 2008, Chancellor Angela Merkel made a ...

At an Oct. 25 conference in Berlin, conservation and public health leaders issued 10 principles aimed at encouraging cross-disciplinary research and efforts to address both human health and ...

Human health impacts our individual biology as well as the natural, built, and social environments in which we live, work, and play. The ability to integrate a health perspective is important not only ...

A useful distinction to consider when thinking about decision-making in the mental health space is between principles and rules. A principle is a fundamental proposition that guides a system of belief ...

Long before the culture around them embraced vegetarian diets, the search for vitamin D and the elusive goal of a good night's sleep, had staked their lives on health principles laid down by their ...

Fit for Life:WHEN IT comes to designing training programmes there is no blueprint for success. The human body is a complex biological system which responds and adapts to the stimulus of exercise in ...