Discover the November/December 2026 issue of Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, Volume 32, featuring peer-reviewed articles, case studies, and the latest research findings.

This cross-sectional study examines whether policies making the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) easier and more valuable were associated with increased pa...

This Perspective discusses the Rural Emergency Hospital designation, outlining structural flaws in its design and offering suggestions on how to address those flaws to encourage wider adoption.

An NIH-funded T32 training program preparing Syracuse University doctoral students to research how policy and place shape health and aging outcomes.

Trinity Health layoffs expose the danger of the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act

The 2025 budget reconciliation created the Rural Health Transformation Program, which will award $50 billion in state grants over a five-year period. This brief provides an overview of the program, de...

This cross-sectional study examines changes in discharge volume, total charges, and length of stay at hospitals near urban vs rural hospital closures in the state of Georgia.

Search The Milbank Quarterly Archive. Featuring peer-reviewed original research, policy review, and analysis since 1923.

This cross-sectional study examines whether broadband services sufficiently support use of telehealth in rural areas lacking ambulance and health care services.

Research Alert from the Rural Health Research Gateway for: New Articles Published on Medicare, Neonatal Care, Rural Emergency Hospitals, and more

Though much attention has centered on the closure of rural hospitals, quieter transformations could reshape healthcare for publicly and privately insured patients alike.

ALT: Man Lying on a Pile of Money

Disability status has been elicited systematically in United States surveys as far back as the 1970s and was included in the March Supplement of the Current Population Survey starting in 1981. Unfortu

The University of Maine Cooperative Extension is seeking an accomplished scientist and collaborative leader to establish and grow the University's PFAS analytical and Extension program. This is a uniq...

In a new column, Dr. Drew Altman, KFF's Founding President and CEO, previews findings about the chronically ill uninsured from a large KFF survey of 25,000 Americans focusing on the cost and access ch...

The worst U.S. measles outbreak in decades is growing and flu season is imminent. Experts are fretting about federal health data reliability after the CDC questioned two Pennsylvania measles deaths.

As the world—and the US—urbanizes, there has been an appropriate increase in science and scholarship about the role that urban environments play in shaping health.1 However, accompanying the growth in...

This cohort study assesses risk factors for obstetric unit closure and closure of entire hospitals providing obstetric services.

This Viewpoint uses dental care as a test case for whether rural health care reform translates into more reliable access.