Addressing patients’ health-related social needs such as housing instability, food insecurity, transportation barriers and financial strain is important to improving health outcomes yet can be challenging.  A new study from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University Indianapolis Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health investigates the best approach to predicting likely need for one or more health-related social need services.

The number of family caregivers supporting older adults living in home and residential-care settings increased 32%, from 18.2 million to 24.1 million, between 2011 and 2022, according to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research.

People who feel financially comfortable are more likely to report prosocial actions like donating money and prosocial attitudes than people in a tough financial situation, according to a study. 

A growing number of people feel anxious about the consequences of changing climate conditions. We are bombarded with news about floods, melting glaciers and long-term drought. Can fears about the future of the climate lead to the development of symptoms of mental disorders? It turns out that such fear can contribute to the development of climate-related mental disorders, especially in people who experience symptoms of generalized anxiety, a researcher from SWPS University has found.