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A conversation on ‘The Cure for Everything’: Where American public health is and where it’s headed
For the first time in a century, American life expectancy is declining, an unprecedented trend for a wealthy nation and one driven largely by preventable causes of early death. The foundations of public health reforms — sanitation, clean water, safe housing, pollution control, workplace safety, and more — doubled America’s life expectancy between the mid-1800s and…
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How to find local climate-health stories
Climate change coverage has been dominated by negative content that highlights the scale of the crisis, the stubbornness of fossil fuel use or the failure of international negotiations. But the past decade has brought meaningful wins: cities running on renewable energy for days at a time, flood-prone neighborhoods protected by restored wetlands, farmers slashing methane…
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‘What We’ve Become’ explores limitations of public health approach to guns
On its surface, the central argument in Jonathan Metzl’s most recent book is a surprising one and a departure from his previous books and public statements. One of those books, “Dying of Whiteness,” made a strong case for why gun violence needs to be treated as a public health crisis. In “What We’ve Become: Living and…
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Has the public health framework failed in the fight against gun violence?
‘What We’ve Become:’ A new way of framing America’s gun violence epidemic Moderator: Kaitlin Washburn, reporter, Chicago Sun-Times; AHCJ Health Beat Leader for Firearm Violence Jonathan M. Metzl, M.D., Ph.D., chair, Vanderbilt University Department of Medicine, Health and Society By Cara Anthony, Firearm Violence Reporting Fellowship When Jonathan Metzl published a book about America’s complex…
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What happens to local public health as federal funding vanishes?
As federal funding disappears, what happens to public health at the local level? Chrissie Juliano, MPP, executive director, Big Cities Health Coalition By Gladys B. Vargas, California Health Journalism Fellow The Trump administration’s drastic cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are having immediate negative effects on communities across the country, according to…
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Guidance for journalists reporting on how the U.S. public health system is changing
Can public health ever get its groove back? A soul-searching moment for an embattled public utility Moderator: Keren Landman, independent health reporter Quang “Q” Dang, executive director of the Network for Public Health Law Joseph Kanter, M.D., MPH, CEO of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Julie Morita, M.D., president and CEO of…
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