Environmental Health

Climate change is fueling increasingly extreme weather events, and someone needs to defend communities against them and clean up after them. In California, that person is often a low-wage immigrant worker.

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Community Safety

When a psychiatric patient shows up at the emergency room at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, the staff quickly removes anything dangerous before placing them in a treatment room.

Environmental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Mental Health, Patient Safety and Ethics

The consequences of prenatal alcohol exposure include devastating, long-term conditions that range from difficulty learning to mental and physical disabilities and brain damage.

Environmental Health, Women's and Maternal Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety

Patrick Russell was one of almost 500 people to die in Southern California jails in the past decade. A grand jury report found almost half of the deaths in Orange County jails from 2014 to 2017 may have been preventable.

Environmental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Mental Health, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics

Last year, the University of Virginia marked its 1,000th telestroke consultation in its first three years. Thirty-five to 40 patients a month in rural hospitals benefit from specialty care that they wouldn’t otherwise have had.

Environmental Health, Poverty and Class, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Patient Safety and Ethics