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The nonprofit hospital tax system may offer more funds to affluent, white communities and less funding to low-income, racially minoritized communities, according to a new study led by Harvard Chan School researchers.
Bipartisan investment in improving the U.S.’s oral health care system could lead to less oral disease and, in turn, a healthier population and better economy, according to Harvard Chan School’s Benjamin Sommers and Hawazin Elani.
Almost a decade after South Africa began regulating sodium content in processed foods, a new Harvard Chan School study has found that salt consumption and blood pressure levels among South Africans significantly decreased.
Chronic health conditions are taking a major, hidden toll on the U.S. workforce’s lives and productivity, according to a new national poll by Harvard Chan School and the de Beaumont Foundation.
In the wake of the Steward Health Care crisis, corporate and private equity ownership of health care has come under new scrutiny. Harvard health policy experts weigh in on the growing corporatization of the U.S. health care system and what it means for patients, practitioners, and public health.
“Concierge medicine”—which offers patients enhanced primary care services for a yearly membership fee—is on the rise because it improves the experiences of both patients and providers, but it also has negative repercussions for the broader health system, according to experts.
More than one-third of patients admitted to the hospital for surgery suffered complications, most of which may have been preventable, according to a new study led by Harvard Chan School.
