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.
Egyptians are far from satisfied with the new interim military government. Workers from around the country, including women, continue to demand for higher wages and improved workplace conditions.
After violence in Ivory Coast ended, hospitals were flooded with injured who had been afraid to leave their homes. For many, prolonged lack of medical care turned normal problems into emergencies.
The lives of the citizens of Ajka were turned upside down October 4th, 2010 when the dam of an alumina plant reservoir collapsed, unleashing a flood of red alkaline sludge.
In "Edge of Joy," filmmaker Dawn Shapiro goes inside a busy maternity ward in Nigeria, where maternal deaths are among the world's highest.
Former Chernobyl liquidator Natalia Manzurova experienced the devastating effects of nuclear power firsthand at the site of the worst nuclear accident in history.
American service members who die at the large American military hospital in Germany often donate their organs before their bodies are returned to their home soil.
"The Edge of Joy," an issue-driven documentary regarding maternal health in Nigeria aired in excerpt April 28th on PBS NewsHour.
Despite overall improvement in the Ivory Coast's capital of Abidjan, access to health care remains a problem.
Pvt. Steven Drees was injured in Afghanistan and evacuated to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Most of the organs donated by U.S. soldiers at that hospital go to those who need them the most: Germans.
As global food prices continue to remain high, experts says there is one often-overlooked solution for fighting hunger: women.
TB killed 1.7 million individuals in 2009. Are we treating one of the world’s deadliest diseases with the equivalent of “muskets and sticks?
How do you move an audience from passive viewership to engagement? David Rochkind discusses his educational portal on the Tuberculosis epidemic.
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