Data on certain chronic conditions’ prevalence, incidence of potentially preventable morbidity, and health-harming legal factors influence approaches to care.

The evidence base for “patients-to-policy” work in MLPs shows benefits to patients, clinicians, and hospital and legal systems.

Overturning this case’s precedent might result in clinicians claiming more religious exemptions and increased risk of harm to patients.

Involuntary commitment is often traumatic and can fracture already fragile relationships persons experiencing homeless have.

Defining typical appearance as a goal of health service provision is harmful and unnecessary for traits that are stigmatized but neither harmful nor distressing.

This article suggests how to better identify older adults with mental illness at risk for placement that won’t meet their needs.

The volume of hazardous health care waste is a global problem and its disposal can be environmentally damaging.

Government- and industry-funded campaigns for medication disposal do work, but responsibility often falls on local health care organizations to provide education and services.

Mismanagement of hospital waste can release harmful, deleterious contaminants into soil, water, and air and can have far-reaching environmental and public relations consequences.

Practice ownership shifts to various employment models have amplified the problem of physician-employees of some US health care companies not knowing about services billed in their names.