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Health check: Universities delve into medical debt, stress and well-being

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Millions of people have long-term health care debt on their credit reports that keeps them from being able to advance. And tens of millions more have stress related to their poor health. But little is known about how these conditions, combined or separately, affect people’s sense of well-being and potentially their ability to recover from illness.Researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis and University of Alabama-Birmingham’s Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center are building a research network to get more people involved in considering the questions and the weight these issues impose on society.

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