Living in the midst of chronically stressful situations, including those suffused with race inequality and gender discrimination, may trigger new growth and coping skills — but it can also erode your ...

Repeated exposure to socioeconomic adversity, political marginalization, racism, and perpetual discrimination can harm health. In this Special Feature, we explore this harmful effect, which is known ...

In 2020, the overall life expectancy in the U.S. dropped by 1.5 years, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the reduction wasn't shared equally among the general population; Native American ...

We know health outcomes frequently differ based on race. The 'Weathering theory' could help explain why, at least in the US. Rocks, soils and minerals — the elements that make up the land we live upon ...

Health inequalities remain as intransigently rooted and malevolent today as in previous decades. Why? Professor of Public Health Arline T. Geronimus, who has studied this discrimination for decades, ...