Health Behavior and Health Equity

Should older adults with fewer years to live keep getting cancer screenings? New poll explores attitudes

New research from Brian Zikmund-Fisher

In January 2023, the University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging asked a national sample of adults age 50–80 about their views on how cancer screening decisions should be made. Poll findings say the majority of people over 50 disagree with using life expectancy in guidelines for cancer screening tests.

Q&A: What does guaranteed income mean for Ann Arbor?

Guaranteed income programs are popping up across the country, including the University of Michigan’s hometown of Ann Arbor. But what are these programs, who is eligible to participate, and how does guaranteed income address poverty and inequality?

Community-based collaborative to improve birth outcomes for Detroit Latinas

Collaborative to identify key barriers and facilitators to positive birth outcomes and create a strategic plan for change

Michigan Public Health researchers are leading a new community-based project aimed at improving maternal and child health for Latina women in Detroit.

Project HEARD Empowers Community Organizations for Effective Policy Change

The project utilizes community-academic partnerships to work toward defined policy goals set forth using a community-based participatory approach.

Project HEARD (Health Equity via Advocacy for Resources in Detroit), a Detroit URC policy initiative co-led by Michigan Public Health faculty and community partners, supports community-led efforts to advance health equity in Detroit and beyond.

Early signs of Alzheimer's: Most older adults see the value of screening but haven't been tested

Eighty percent of older adults see the benefit of tests that can give an early warning that a person’s memory and thinking abilities have started to decline, a new poll of people age 65 to 80 finds. The findings are part of a new report from the National Poll on Healthy Aging.

Air pollution continues to be focus of community coalition to promote a healthy environment in Detroit

People living and working in Detroit are exposed to elevated levels of a variety of air pollutants. Six years after releasing a Public Health Action Plan, work is moving forward on community initiatives to expand responses to air pollution in Detroit.