Data quality for and about American Indian/Alaska Native people is undermined by deeply entrenched, colonial practices that have become standard in US federal data systems. 

Systematic deviation from truth can arise during data collection, methodological application, and outcomes analysis.

Dr James Downs joins Ethics Talk to discuss the underrecognized contributions of marginalized peoples to the origins of epidemiology, and Dr Rae Anne Martinez outlines good uses of race and ethnicity data in epidemiological research.

Modern epidemiological science developed as domestic and international infectious disease transmission accompanied industrialization and colonial military expansion.

This article draws on opinions in the AMA Code and applies them to evidence-based practice.

The European Dementia Village is a pioneering health care site, and a US-based model is the Dementia Friendly City Center, which integrates service delivery into adaptive reuse and urban revitalization.

Modern evidence-based designers’ lineage was prominently shaped between 1800 and 1970.

Dr Jeanne Kisacky joins Ethics Talk to discuss changes in hospital design from the late 1800s to the present, and human-centered design specialist John Meyer explains how “design thinking” can help health professionals provide better care for patients.

Close listening is a teachable skill set in which clinicians focus sensory attention on a patient and cultivate space before speaking.

Individuals and communities have rights to not have their space impinged upon by hostile urban plans, designs, or development.