Clinically significant insomnia, elevated OSA risk, and insufficient sleep duration were markedly higher in rural Appalachian ...

The social determinants of health have a disproportionate impact on individual and population health. As common sense would suggest, safe neighborhoods, nutritious diets, adequate housing and higher ...

In a recent study published in BMC Public Health, researchers investigated how health behaviors (HB) and socioeconomic position (SEP) were related to health and wellbeing. An individual's SEP has a ...

Gallbladder and biliary tract cancers (GBTCs) are highly lethal malignancies with a heterogeneous global burden. Most existing epidemiological studies have been regional and descriptive, and have ...

Introduction Obesity and its downstream non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the greatest health challenges of the 21st century, even in low-income and middle-income countries such as India. As ...

We divide the class into groups of 4-5 with each student assigned a responsibility (recorder, reporter, etc.). The groups then walk the transect, observing environmental, ecological, and socioeconomic ...