The Hampton & Peninsula Health Districts has a lot to teach inmates at the Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail about health.

The Hampton & Peninsula Health Districts' partnership with Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail offers a novel program boosting health literacy for inmates.

Dr. Darien Sutton, ABC News Medical Correspondent & Emergency Medicine Physician, talks medical misinformation and health literacy.

HPHD says the partnership began in June 2025 when they held its first Health Literacy class in the jail’s “We Are All In This Together” program. (Hampton & Peninsula Health Districts) WILLIAMSBURG – ...

A new BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee study identified social barriers to health for two million members. Key factors ...

A new editorial published in JAMA Oncology warns that cancer care progress is under threat from a trifecta of challenges: proposed federal budget cuts, a surge in medical misinformation, and a ...

In a time when much of the media’s focus is on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the differences in vaccination rates between various regions, countries, and socioeconomic groups, improving health ...

Development Impact Partners (DIP), in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service (GHS), is set to host Consumer Health Week ...

Health education and health literacy are pivotal in public health, yet traditional approaches often emphasize individual behavior change at the expense of ...

Every day, thousands worldwide find out they have a disease or health condition that requires care. And each day more and more people don’t get the care they need because they don’t understand their ...

First of two parts THIS column gives way to the abridged version of a featured article in the Philippine Journal of Nursing in 2025 written by a luminary in public health, educator from the University ...

For patients facing low health literacy and significant social determinants of health challenges, navigating the healthcare system can be difficult even under the best circumstances. But according to ...