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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Lesson Plans
The Weekly: Analyzing the Impacts of Chronic Disease
Students learn about sickle cell disease and the first teen to undergo an experimental new treatment, while also exploring issues of chronic illness and access to medical care more broadly.
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The aim of this project is to make a portrait of how life looks like in Amazonian traditional...
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A mysterious illness has taken the lives of 15 out of 180 members of a clan of Malaysia’s last...
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A declining number of leprologists rely on questionable data as they try to eliminate the growing...