Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A high social vulnerability index score may indicate a risk for greater severity of C. difficile infection.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Youth who lived in vulnerable communities were 1.65 times more likely to have asthma. Low annual household ...

The researchers demonstrated how to jointly examine prevalence estimates of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) from PLACES and social vulnerability measures from the Social Vulnerability ...

New research reveals that certain social determinants of health—such as socioeconomic status, household characteristics, and racial/ethnic minority status—have significant effects on rural–urban ...

Higher neighborhood-level opportunity and social vulnerability measures were associated with pediatric asthma incidence, a new study has found. High and very high neighborhood opportunity during early ...

The Social Vulnerability Index includes 14 social determinants of health grouped into 4 related themes: socioeconomic status, household composition and disability, minority status and language, and ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Nearly six years have passed since Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico. The historic storm, one of the deadliest in U.S. history, significantly damaged more than 80 percent of ...