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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Merchants of Care
The COVID-19 pandemic left a battered healthcare industry in its wake. Waves of illness lay bare its...
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Health on a Warming Planet
For years researchers have predicted that human health will suffer as the climate warms...
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Across Indian Country, there is a silent health epidemic killing Native women: pregnancy and...
