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An introduction to the journal's supplement, which focuses on a unified research approach for minority health and health disparities is presented.

The article urges that public health must increase its capacity to recognize, analyze and shift the balance in power relations to advance health and racial equity. Topics discussed include four domains to power according to black feminist sociologist Patricia Hill Collins, things needed to shift the balance in power relations, and structural interventions to improve health in communities.

The author discusses the commitment of the journal to publishing articles focusing on the health of LGBTQ+ people. He tackles the appointment of B. Ethan Coston as the associate editor for LGBTQ+ Health, an increase in anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in the U.S., and the initiatives of the journal under Coston's leadership.

The article discusses the medicalized approach to addressing mental health needs which emphasizes providing clinical services, often pharmaceutically based, to individuals. Topics include chronic underinvestment in public mental health, explanation on the failure of social policies and political decisions crafted to protect mental health, and policies to promote mental health.

Social work education plays a critical role in preparing social workers to lead efforts that improve health. Because of the dynamic health care landscape, schools of social work must educate students to facilitate health care system improvements, enhance population health, and reduce medical costs. We reviewed the existing contributions of social work education and provided recommendations for improving the education of social workers in 6 key areas: aging, behavioral health,community health, global health, health reform, and health policy. We argue for systemic improvement in the curriculum at every level of education, including substantive increases in content in health, health care, health care ethics, and evaluating practice outcomes in health settings. Schools of social work can further increase the impact of the profession by enhancing the curricular focus on broad content areas such as prevention, health equity, population and community health, and health advocacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the 100th anniversary of the 1915 Welch-Rose report approaches, the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) has been pursuing two initiatives to spark innovation in academic partnerships for enhancing population health: (1) Framing the Future: The Second 100 Years of Education for Public Health and (2) Reconnecting Public Health and Care Delivery to Improve the Health of Populations. We describe how ASPPH member schools and programs accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, along with their extraordinarily diverse array of partners, are working to improve education that better prepares health professionals to meet 21st-century population health needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author reflects on LGBT equality and public health in the United States. He comments on his editorial "Why LGBT public health" published in the journal in 2001 and on health disparities related to gender minority and sexual orientation status and research on how stigma, prejudice, and the role of the social environment has on adverse health outcomes for LGBT individuals. He talks about how LGBT issues have changed in recent years but that social equality isn't the same as legal equality.

The author argues that prioritizing public health services for low- and middle-income countries is needed in order to be fair in the implementation of universal health coverage (UHC) as of 2016, and it mentions the World Health Organization (WHO), public health services in India, and proposals for reducing out-of-pocket payments. According to the article, UHC is achieved when all people receive quality health care services without exposing them to financial hardship.