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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How do youth with Type 1 diabetes live with and manage a disease in a country where proper supplies...
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Lesson Plans
Telling Science Stories: Data Visualization
This lesson shows students how journalists use data visualization to effectively communicate scientific issues—and directs students to create their own projects using the mapping platform CartoDB .
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Lesson Plans
Using Video to Craft a Global Health Spending Debate
The following global health lesson plan for English teachers, history teachers, humanities teachers and science teachers introduces students to journalist Rob Tinworth's The Life Equation project. It...
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: The Next Global Pandemic
Where Disease Comes From Mark Johnson and Mark Hoffman The Aedes aegypti has a short lifespan and a...
July 18, 2017 -
Though the Zika outbreak in Brazil has seemingly peaked, its aftermath will be felt by the thousands...