When considering health and wellness strategies, the most likely changes tend to be nutrition, activity, and sleep. While those are all incredibly important, financial stability deserves a place on the list, too. Continue reading for a look at how financial wellness impacts your quality of life, along with some strategies to feel more secure.
Can financial stability boost your health and wellness?
Giving birth while Black should not be a death sentence
The circumstances Black people face are not simply a matter of an economic or education system, but of a system that reinforces inequitable and discriminatory practices. There’s no clearer example than that of Serena Williams.
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Ready to help the environment? Start with these 5 steps
News about climate change can feel disheartening the more we learn about environmental shifts that lead to wildfires, melting ice caps, species depletion, drought, and expanded disease prevalence. Although it can all seem overwhelming taking small steps to be more environmentally conscious may have a bigger effect than you might think.
Smoking trumps other social determinants of health impacting mortality
Smoking was the leading social determinant of health affecting mortality and life expectancy, although income was another strong SDOH predictor, according to researchers from the Center for Population Health at Georgetown University and the Department of Sociology at UC Riverside.
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Tips for taking your medication for depression—from a psychiatrist
Have you recently started taking medication for depression or perhaps considering it? If you answered yes or are just curious, this is your chance to learn about best practices along with lifestyle habits that support depression medication use. Continue reading for added insight from board-certified general and child adolescent psychiatrist, Debra Katz.