In 1966 the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made a profound and prescient statement about health injustice, calling it “the most shocking and inhumane” form of inequality. Sixty years later, after ...

Earlier this year, I joined (RED) to help fight health injustices around the world, because we have learned over and over that disease is not the only thing that kills, but discrimination does, too.

There is perhaps nothing worse we can say about a policy, society or institution than that it is unjust. But what are the criteria we use to judge something as unjust? Or, to put it another way, what ...

It is far easier to confront biases in others than in ourselves. But we recognize that the Journal and other medical institutions have in the past justified and advocated the mistreatment of groups on ...

We often experience a sense of indignation when we encounter a situation that we regard as unfair taking place in our environment. Interestingly, this can happen not only when we are direct recipients ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named racism as a serious public health threat, and University of Oregon philosopher Camisha Russell's latest research examines racism in health ...

Results reveal a clear association between the degree of environmental injustice in a neighborhood and the prevalence of self-reported poor or fair health. In the United States, areas with greater ...

There is potential for social injustice and problems in the ways health care is run by the governments of developed nations and in developing nations, panelists said. Professor Leonard Glantz, Boston ...

Can you conjure up an image of a too-thin polar bear stuck on a small, melting bed of sea ice or sprawled out on iceless land? How about images of a flooded neighborhood with several children waiting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year in particular, as the Trump administration continues its assault on King’s legacy, there will be lots of commentary ...