Population health nursing is where nursing and public health come together. These nurses help connect everyday clinical care with key public health activities — like assessing community needs, ...

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Meeting America’s Public Health Challenge.” This series includes articles that reflect on and are inspired by a report of the same ...

The operational cleavage between the US public health and medical care systems contributed to the country’s difficulty in containing community spread of COVID-19 in the pandemic’s first months. We ...

Mental health care in America has a long, complex history. Author Hannah Thurman explores the history of mental health care ...