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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Smoke and Mirrors
Globally, cooking smoke causes over 4 million deaths per year. Can improved cookstoves save lives...
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Lesson Plans
What Happens to Communities When Industries Leave?
In this lesson, students create a timeline using multimedia reporting on the leather and textile industries in the U.S.. Students then design their own narrative timelines to explain a current event.
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This lesson for English, science, history, and journalism teachers asks students to assess how journalists integrate diverse media to analyze the impacts of leather production in Bangladesh.
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Lesson Plans
Conviction Driven 'Miracles'
After reading Erik Vance's The Science Behind Miracles , students discuss what it means to have a “limitless” world and whether or not science has anything to do with achieving the impossible.