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.
With the help of local NGOS, former sex workers in Cambodia are starting their own businesses, working in cafes or learning new trades such as sewing and screen printing.
Jennifer Miller talks about Nepal's dental health crisis and an unlikely hero.
As people in the developing world live longer, eat more and exercise less, high blood pressure is on the rise. What does that mean to a country like Cambodia?
A sisterhood of HIV positive mothers helps others live with the disease.
Bangladesh is known for its cheap, ready-made garments for U.S. and European markets, but at what human cost are these clothes produced?
In Nepal, myths abound about the consequences of dental treatment. People fear deafness and blindness. New mothers are routinely told not to brush their teeth for two months after giving birth.
Ten years ago Laura Spero decided to bring badly needed oral health care to remote Nepali villages. She had no idea what challenges lay ahead.
A British climate scientist asks Americans, “Why can’t we just look at this subject on its own merits and weigh the evidence and what to do?”
New e-book available on cancer's global footprint from Joanne Silberner, Pulitzer Center and PRI's The World.
The precarious nature of life in rural Malawi is readily visible on the dirt road leading from the mountain villages of Nsambe to the nearest government hospital in Neno.
People in developing countries could cut their risk of diabetes by switching from white rice to brown rice. Turns out that’s easier said than done.
Rural development in Ghana could reduce urban migration, as well as the nasty business of open defecation.
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