Poor sleep affects nearly every organ system and influences many morbidity and mortality causes, so screening for sleep sufficiency and quality should be prioritized.

Sleep is essential for a healthy, productive life, but access to sufficient and quality sleep is not universal.

As sleep stewardship’s importance gains wider recognition, clinical and ethical management of sleep resources and practices will likely be key features of health professionalism.

Fully assessing children’s sleep environments and effectively promoting children’s overall sleep health is nearly impossible during brief clinical encounters.

Hostile design discourages and limits use of a space and can make users feel unwelcome or unsafe.

Hospital design standards were debated for decades and were ultimately ceded to nurses and architects. This article describes key moments along that trajectory.

This article offers examples of connections between built environments and health outcomes and regulation of built environments. 

Calls to expand palliative care education have been explicit since the 1990s, but palliative care training in surgery remains too narrowly focused on end of life.

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

Abolition medicine and reproductive justice are synergistic approaches that advance a radical vision of a racially just world.