Chronic Disease

Norma Vargas uses multiple medications to manage her severe asthma, which she developed while growing up in a San Joaquin Valley

Smoke from ag burning contributes to long-term health effects for Valley Latino residents

Long-term exposure to the particulate matter released by open agricultural burning has been associated with a suite of health problems, and the communities most affected are majority-Latino.

Environmental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Chronic Disease

The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District office in Fresno.

After ‘decades of broken promises’ will Central Valley air regulators finally end ag burning?

Nearly two decades of postponing a ban on burning have left clean air advocates dubious that local air regulators will follow through.

Environmental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Chronic Disease

The San Joaquin Valley is the only region in the country to be out of compliance with 1997 federal air quality standards.

With little confidence in California air quality regulators, advocates turn to Biden-Harris

Clean air advocates hope the EPA will step in to strengthen regulations of polluting industries.

Environmental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Chronic Disease

A political fight in the Sacramento legislature resulted in a loophole that allowed ag burning to continue.

A political fight and the legal ‘loophole’ that’s polluted the San Joaquin Valley for 20 years

A California senator set out to ban agricultural burning in the San Joaquin Valley nearly 20 years ago. What happened?

Environmental Health, Chronic Disease

Dennis Hutson, who farms 60 acres in Allensworth, is one of many small farmers who worry they won’t be able to afford alternativ

‘What am I going to do?’ Small growers especially apprehensive of a future without burning

Even with $220 million in financial incentives, growers are wondering how they’ll afford whole orchard recycling in the long term – especially small farmers, who have fewer resources to begin with.

Environmental Health, Chronic Disease

Regulators promote chipping or grinding agricultural debris like branches and whole trees using heavy equipment as the primary a

As air regulators phase out ag burning, what’s the alternative?

In their new plan to ban agricultural burning, air regulators are using outreach and financial incentives to convince growers to adopt an alternative known as whole orchard recycling.

Environmental Health, Chronic Disease

Many Pacific Islander Patients Have To Move To Get Life-Saving Access To Dialysis

One in five Indigenous Chamorros in the Northern Mariana Islands has diabetes, and the demand for dialysis is growing. But the only dialysis centers are on the capital island of Saipan.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Chronic Disease, Patient Safety and Ethics

Laketa Watts, left, director of Essentially Empowered, a community organization, and Sherri Sherri Ohly, director of the Envisio

Cities are trying to address the staggering impact of asthma. The problem: Our healthcare system isn't set up to address underlying triggers

Community health workers are often funded with short-term grants, which can deter people from the profession and lead to shortages.

Poverty and Class, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Chronic Disease

Students at Starms Discovery Learning Center in Milwaukee head out for recess on Aug. 16, 2022. Asthma is the most common diseas

With more tools than ever, expanded Wisconsin asthma program could dramatically reduce ER visits, overall costs

Talis Shelbourne reported this project on the intersection of asthma, housing and health systems with the support of a grant from USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism's 2022 Impact Fund for Reporting on Health Equity and Health Systems. ...

Poverty and Class, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Chronic Disease

A sign with a skull and crossbones that translates as ‘No uranium’ in the Diné language warns visitors near the Church Rock mini

‘We’re Losing Our People’

COVID-19 ravaged Indigenous tribes in New Mexico. State and federal data reveal how a long legacy of uranium exposure may have made them uniquely vulnerable.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Chronic Disease

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Chronic Disease

Smoke from ag burning contributes to long-term health effects for Valley Latino residents

After ‘decades of broken promises’ will Central Valley air regulators finally end ag burning?

With little confidence in California air quality regulators, advocates turn to Biden-Harris

A political fight and the legal ‘loophole’ that’s polluted the San Joaquin Valley for 20 years

‘What am I going to do?’ Small growers especially apprehensive of a future without burning

As air regulators phase out ag burning, what’s the alternative?

Many Pacific Islander Patients Have To Move To Get Life-Saving Access To Dialysis

Cities are trying to address the staggering impact of asthma. The problem: Our healthcare system isn't set up to address underlying triggers

With more tools than ever, expanded Wisconsin asthma program could dramatically reduce ER visits, overall costs

‘We’re Losing Our People’