Public Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration

This interactive web portal, hosted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), explores the multidimensional nature of poverty around the world. According to the 2022 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), published by UNDP and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, approximately 1.2 billion people live in multidimensional poverty, half under the age of 18. The MPI measures poverty across three dimensions—health, education, and living standards—and uses 10 indicators such as lacking access to clean…

This article from The Lancet provides estimates of 12 indicators for adolescent health and wellbeing from 1990 to 2016 on the country level. The study analyzed health outcomes, health risks, and social determinants of health for adolescents. While some countries have experienced a major decrease in disease burden, other countries have experienced population growth contributing to poor adolescent health. In 2016, 250 million more adolescents were living in multi-burden countries than in 1990. Obesity, anemia,…

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is a federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is the leading biomedical research agency in the country. The NIH is made up of 27 institutes and centers that each focus on their own area of research and are funded by the U.S. Congress. Some of the institutes and centers at the NIH include the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Aging,…