The culture of running promotes a body weight and size ideal that is unhealthy among elite female collegiate distance runners, according to preliminary findings from a series of interviews by University of Michigan researchers.
Although harnessing renewable energy or enabling electric-vehicle transportation may be more visible efforts toward carbon neutrality, another area crucial to any push toward climate action is one that U-M students, staff and faculty encounter regularly: food.
How often is visual communication implemented or a focus in writing assignments for public health students? A team of faculty and alumni at the University of Michigan School of Public Health wanted to further investigate.
According to a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan, the Clalit Research Institute, and Ben-Gurion University in Israel, fully vaccinating children reduces the risk of hospitalization associated with influenza by 54%.
The long and illustrious careers of alums from Michigan’s program in Health Services Research and Policy demonstrate the impact of professionals trained in both practice and academia—a testament to the educational value of the program for students and the broad influence the program has had on health care management and policy in the US and beyond.
A new review of opioid misuse prevention policies across the United States analyzed the effectiveness of each policy on addressing prescribing, patient behavior, and patient health related outcomes.