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Life expectancies have been declining since before the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the need to prioritize public health. Research has shown that public health efforts to prevent disease are more cost effective - and humane - than treating chronic health conditions, so now is the time to invest in our nation’s health.

Thanks to decades of research, Americans are living longer. Yet Chronic diseases still affect large swaths of the population and are unevenly distributed creating health disparities. These chronic illness are common and costly, and many are preventable. NIH Researchers — Basic, Translation, clinical and community based — are tackling these challenges head on.

Public health in the United States is in crisis. ... the field’s failures to an ongoing “reluctance and inability to work directly on the societal roots of health problems.” To move public ...

Dementia, the detrimental mental degradation associated with many cognitive diseases, is yet another looming and major public health crisis faced by the US right now. According to a group of top U.S. Surgeons General in a pivotal op-ed featured in the Orlando Sentinel recently, the public was made aware of the impending weight of the crisis at ...

WASHINGTON (March 25, 2025) — A new report from the Commonwealth Fund and the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health warns that potential budget cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program could trigger severe economic consequences across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. If implemented, these combined cuts could lead to one ...

The United States faces urgent public health challenges, including high preventable death rates, pervasive health disparities, and emerging health risks, despite unprecedented medical progress ...

The Rollins-Gallup Public Health Priorities Survey asked 2,121 adults in the United States, ages 18 and older, their opinion on trending public health topics, ... “The survey reinforces that Americans, across demographics and party lines, mostly agree on the public health issues that touch their daily lives. Public health is at a crossroads ...

Jan 20, 2025, US President Donald Trump took charge of the Oval Office and began by signing an array of executive orders spanning from withdrawal from WHO and the Paris Climate Agreement to freezing trillions of US$ worth of federal funding and a ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion programmes. The new US Administration's onslaught on some of the world's most respected scientific public ...

APHA highlights the latest research to develop reports and issue briefs on critical public health issues such as environmental health, health equity, and violence and injury prevention. CLIMATE CHANGE. ... Brief for the United States of America (PDF) presents country-level data on the health impacts of climate change from the 2023 Global Lancet ...

A new poll shows that trust on public health issues is expected to erode, though there is a partisan divide. April 29, ... both in the United States and worldwide, and will require a nuanced ...

Despite having a generally positive view of their own health, many Americans generally have a "pessimistic view" of public health in the United States, largely due to growing healthcare costs, according to a new poll from Axios and Ipsos. See Americans' top public health concerns and other data on our interactive charts.

1. What are emerging public health threats? Emerging public health threats refer to new or re-emerging health issues that can negatively impact population health. These can include infectious diseases, mental health crises, and environmental challenges that require updated strategies for prevention and response. 2.

At 6 a.m. on March 25, Philip Huang, director of the Dallas County Health and Human Services department, got a devastating email. Millions of dollars in federal grants that the health agency had ...

The Health, United States, 2020-2021: Annual Perspective integrated selected analyses on health trends reported online by the Health, United States program. View suggested citation Topics in the 2020-2021 Report

The National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and philanthropic organizations should address research gaps related to intervention development and implementation — prioritizing interventions that target inequities in emotional, mental, and behavioral health, that are needed for different age groups, and that are co-created with the populations they are ...

Following are 10 emerging public health issues that have grown to new levels or have experts concerned. 1. Public Health Authority. According to a 2021 report by the Network for Public Health Law, 15 states have proposed or passed laws that would undermine public health authority.

6 current public health issues you should know about. The world has no shortage of crucial public health issues worth tackling. Here are six current public health issues in the United States if you’re considering a career. 1. Cardiovascular disease

Doctors and health experts have expressed alarm at the proposed changes. "Any rollback of environmental regulations has the potential to have really widespread public health impacts," says Neelu ...

Public health issues include truncal obesity, drug abuse, teenage anxiety, and senior mental health. Learn more about how public health addresses these issues. ... The following articles and websites provide insight on senior care and mental health conditions: Aging in the United States: Fact sheet on the aging population from the Population ...