Investing more in rural-specific research. The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy supports rural health research ...

Despite still having the highest rate of overdose deaths, the U.S. and several countries have seen a decrease in overdose ...

Explore our newly updated, enhanced, and expanded International Health Care System Profiles to learn how 31 countries across six continents approach health care. Employer-sponsored health insurance ...

In North Dakota, references to the Rough Riders — a famed cavalry in the 1898 Spanish-American War — abound. The name graces hotels, grocery stores, and golf tournaments and has become a shorthand ...

This brief was originally published in December 2020 and updated in July 2025. In 2023, at a time when maternal mortality was declining worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the ...

One of the most complex issues in health care is the development and commercialization of treatments and cures for rare and orphan diseases — those for which no drug has been developed because its ...

For nearly two decades, the Commonwealth Fund has tracked health and health care in each state, seeking both to understand how the policy choices we make affect people’s health outcomes and to ...

Even though a “public option” health plan has support from the Biden administration as well as the majority of voters, little progress has been made in creating one at the federal level. 1 At the ...

Disparities in health and health care between racial and ethnic groups do not exist in the abstract. In every U.S. state, differences in access to care, quality of care, or outcomes of care affect ...

For many people, primary care is their first point of contact with the health system, and decades of evidence shows it is critical for population health, health equity, and the overall efficiency of ...