Hefei Wen ([email protected]) is a faculty member in the Division of Health Policy and Insurance Research, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care ...

Group loans are given by SHGs. Self-help groups are voluntary organizations consisting of people with similar economic and social backgrounds. This system has become quite popular in rural areas. In ...

Before we get into our list of the many online support groups that may help people struggling right now, allow me to say something kind of obvious: Just about everything we’ve been through since March ...

Relapse prevention is why most people seek treatment, and with opioid use disorders (OUDs), there’s about a 90 percent relapse rate. This article explains why and how specific sayings from self-help ...

The May 2020 issue of Health Affairs journal includes the article, “Self-Help Groups And Medication Use In Opioid Addiction Treatment: A National Analysis,” by Hefei Wen and colleagues. In response to ...

India’s self-help groups have advanced gender equality and contributed to a sharp decline in poverty over the past 15 years. The task now is to replicate their success elsewhere and apply their ...

The early 1970s were a bad time for women’s health care. It wasn’t just that abortions were illegal in most of the country, forcing some women to rely on back-alley providers for often dangerous ...

Heaven helps those who help themselves.” So opens Samuel Smiles’ 1859 book Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct—an appropriately self-published work that birthed the modern genre.