Two journal articles identify the important relationships that the field of social epidemiology has uncovered between poverty and health.

Undocumented patients in the United States with end-stage renal disease receive “compassionate” dialysis. Such patients oscillate between being marginally well and “ill enough” to receive dialysis while clinicians wrestle with complicity in a system that both offers and withholds life-saving therapy.

Perinatal mortality indicators like the maternal mortality ratio mask social determinants of health and undermine reproductive justice.

In conducting research abroad, clinicians should treat community members with dignity and as research partners.

In conducting research abroad, clinicians should treat community members with dignity and as research partners.

Seven photos taken in Flint illuminate environmental injustice, the city’s attempts to respond, and individuals’ experiences.

Forced migration of Pacific Islanders raises ethical issues of health and health care disparities, which are examined in the case of Tuvaluan immigrants.

Assigning community based on race suggests that phenotype reveals something consistent about biology that is equal in standing to factors like weight, dietary habits, smoking history, and whether or not you had rheumatic fever as a child.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ opinion on racial and ethnic health care disparities.