Articles tagged Public Health × Clear

Genome-wide association studies remain overwhelmingly European in origin, and that skew is quietly built into the polygenic risk scores, diagnostic tools, and machine learning models shaping the future of medicine.

Misinformation is not the root cause of resistance to public health recommendations during Ebola outbreaks— it is a symptom of failed trust systems, historical marginalization, and institutional fragility.

The loneliness epidemic is not merely an environmental problem — chronic social disconnection produces measurable allostatic load that neurologically compromises the very mechanisms through which genuine human connection becomes possible.

Over the past fifty years, the US juvenile justice system has cycled between punitive and rehabilitative approaches. Restorative justice — rooted in reintegration, accountability, and community repair — has proven more effective at reducing adolescent reoffending, though its success depends heavily on the social conditions in which it is implemented.