The US health-care system is reaching its breaking point. Individuals, families, employees, employers, and public and private health insurance funders are all spending more for health care every year, ...

Burnout is a growing crisis in health care: More than 50% of health care professionals report symptoms of it. Addressing the trauma they face at work can help. Halting burnout straddles the tension ...

Two major objectives underlying all current health care reform proposals are to reduce health care costs and to improve the quality of health care delivery. In my recent essay, part of the Society of ...

Kathryn Rickwa is a double major in public health science and biology and has a minor in Spanish. She is also a 2023-24 health care ethics intern with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa ...

After her third child was born prematurely, Ruth, a 25-year-old Kenyan mother, didn’t know where to turn. “When the doctor approved that we could go home, I felt afraid since this birth was different ...

Compassionate care is a person-centered approach to delivering healthcare. It emphasizes empathy, respect, and support, which can help improve health outcomes. Compassionate care is a holistic ...

One year after UnitedHealthcare's CEO was shot and killed, the crisis in U.S. health care has gotten even worse — in ways both obvious and hidden. Yet even as costs surge, the companies and the ...

With rates of suicide and opioid deaths rising in the past decade and children's mental health declared a national emergency, the United States faces an unprecedented mental health crisis. But access ...

Americans spend far more on health care than anywhere else in the world but we have the lowest life expectancy among large, wealthy countries. A lot of that can be explained by the unique aspects of ...