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Childhood obesity in Southern Arizona

Southern Arizona children are suffering from adult afflictions — and doctors blame it on a troubling surge in childhood obesity.

Can Health Care Treat Crime?

A growing national movement seeks to connect ex-offenders with health care services. Many people say it makes financial sense. Some say it can possibly reduce crime.

Federal health care program targets low-income children

Children from low-income families may be able to take advantage of government funds for health care. Some obstacles may prevent these families from using these funds, like language knowledge and immigration status. Eduardo A. de Oliveira reports.

Community's response to mental illness

When someone living in New York's West African Communities shows signs of mental illness, friends and family don't send the individual to a doctor. The community gathers up enough money to send them to Africa for treatment. Laura Starecheski reports from New York.

Reporting the Shortened Lives Series: Lessons Learned

Former health journalism Fellows Suzanne Bohan and Sandy Kleffman, colleagues at the Bay Area News Group, teamed up to write Shortened Lives, a groundbreaking series on how where you live affects your health – and won a White House Correspondents’ Association award for their efforts.

Health in Texas' Colonias: Why Conditions Still Fall Short

Nearly half a million Texans live in substandard conditions in colonias —2,300 unincorporated and isolated border towns with limited access to potable water, sewer systems, electricity, sanitary housing or health care. These predominantly Hispanic, overwhelmingly impoverished villages, which dot the 1,248-mile Texas-Mexico border from the Gulf of Mexico to El Paso, present a state public health nightmare. But despite decades of public outcry, campaign promises and legislative action, conditions in the colonias have improved relatively little. Using the Dennis A.

Social Determinants of Health: Where You Live Matters

The circumstances of where and how you are born, grow up, live, work  and grow old shape your health, just as your genes and lifestyle do. The growing field of "social determinants of health" focuses on the impact of these socioeconomic factors on health. Education, politics, violence, income, access to health care, social support, culture, transportation, environmental hazards, physical living conditions and even racism are topics for policymakers, researchers and journalists to consider as they examine health and health disparities within communities, nations and the world.

The Community Health Data Initiative: Now, With Mashups!

Interested in mashing up health data to report on your community? A new federal community health data initiative launched today may help.

Here’s more from the U.S. Health and Human Services Agency:

The Community Health Data Initiative is a major new public-private effort that aims to help Americans understand health and health care performance in their communities – and to help spark and facilitate action to improve performance…

Blowing Smoke, Part 2: What's Happening with Tobacco Control Programs in Your State?

The release of a major new CDC report on states' tobacco control programs, the first since 2006, is a great news peg for taking a look at what's happening with stop-smoking efforts in your state and community. The CDC report gives state-by-state breakdowns of smoking rates by age and other demographics and provides a snapshot of current state regulations on smoking.

Disparity / Disparidad

In a four-part series, Uriel Posada investigated health disparities confronting the Hispanic community in the United States. 

En una serie de cuatro partes, Uriel Posada investigo las disparidades de salud en la comunidad hispana en los Estados Unidos.

 

Part 1: What is the Current Situation in the Hispanic Community? 

Parte 1: Cual es la situacion actual en la comunidad hispana?


Part 2: Health Disparities and the Hispanic Culture

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