Stacy Koeppen has an extensive background in the home health care and nursing fields, and as of July 1, she’s putting those skills to use as the new CEO/executive director of the Tama County Public ...

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 ...

Objectives This paper reports on findings from a systematic review designed to investigate the state of systems science research in public health. The objectives were to: (1) explore how systems ...

Cuts to public health and Medicaid don’t make costs disappear — they just shift them downstream to the health care system. Hospitals are already seeing the fallout: longer wait times, overburdened ...

The modern field has redefined the very meaning of public health, and in the process, it has made so many mistakes that it has itself become a hazard to Americans’ health.

Despite the opioid crisis’ deadly toll, U.S police treat drug use as a criminal issue. But in the Netherlands, a public health approach has seen better results.

This report has been updated with reactions from UW Health and SEIU. Five and a half years after nurses launched a campaign to restore union representation at UW Health, the state’s highest court ...

Amanda Organist, director of nursing for the Bartholomew County Health Department, received the South Region Public Health Nurse Excellence Award, selected from candidates from over 30 other ...

Premier Susan Holt has halted a plan by Horizon Health that would have seen registered nurses and other professionals shuffled into new roles in the areas of public health and mental health and ...

Post readers, doctors and public health professionals on how to counter the federal government’s vaccine sabotage.