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Living in the midst of chronically stressful situations, including those suffused with race inequality and gender discrimination, may trigger new growth and coping skills—but it can also erode your health. Arline Geronimus, professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, explains.
There's one possible reason so many Americans, especially those living in inner cities, have high blood pressure: lead exposure. That's according to new research led by Sung Kyun Park, associate professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences.
Robust environmental monitoring should be used as the world approaches global eradication of polio, say researchers from the University of Michigan School of Public Health who recently studied the epidemiology of the 2013 silent polio outbreak in Rahat, Israel.
Edited by Michigan Public Health faculty, the special supplement of Health Promotion Practice (HPP) covers findings from nine years of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation-sponsored Food & Fitness Initiative.
Even under the best circumstances, parenting can be stressful and challenging. But for parents facing significant obstacles such as poverty, incarceration, or mental health issues, those stresses multiply. Alison Miller, associate professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, works on interventions to support parents and help their children thrive.
In the 1950s, most cars didn’t come with seatbelts standard. Now, your car won’t let you drive across the parking lot without dinging until you buckle up. Just how important is empirical data in evaluating public health risks and shaping public policy?