Public Health
Public health focuses on the systematic prevention of disease and prolonging of life by governments, NGO’s and other groups. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Public Health” feature reporting on communicable and non-communicable diseases, the development of medical systems and infrastructure to provide public access to health care services. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on public health.
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Lessons of Nuclear Warfare From Japan's Atom Bomb Survivors
80 Years Later, Learning From Hiroshima and Nagasaki "The survivors gather at memorials dwindling in...
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Systemic neglect and environmental injustice have left residents with contaminated water.
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The economic and human costs that result from the U.S. decision to slash foreign aid to Lesotho.
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Scientists have been drafted into Ukraine's war machine to develop drones and new approaches to...
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The Cost of Failing
One family’s torturous journey through the broken mental healthcare system in Pennsylvania, and how...
