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Environmental Health

A worker in a Napa Valley vineyard.

Napa Valley’s underbelly: The personal cost of living locally

The story of the Napa Valley is about more than its transition from a sleepy, rural commuter town to the wine capital of America, drawing millions of tourists per year.

Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Community Safety
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Growing up through the cracks: Policing change brings cops up close with kids in poverty

Policing is often a big challenge in communities that face concentrated child poverty. Those communities often have anemic tax bases, making it hard to pay police, and high public safety demands.

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Community Safety
NYC and NYS Are Paving The Way For Health Care For All, Bring Hope to Undocumented Immigrants

NYC and NYS Are Paving The Way For Health Care For All, Bring Hope to Undocumented Immigrants

April Xu wrote this story while participating in the 2018 National Data Fellowship.

Environmental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Patient Safety and Ethics
From Preventable Disease to Life-Threaten Condition: Barriers for The NYC Undocumented to Get Access to Health Care

From Preventable Disease to Life-Threaten Condition: Barriers for The NYC Undocumented to Get Access to Health Care

April Xu wrote this story while participating in the 2018 National Data Fellowship.

Race and Equity, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety
(Photo by InSapphoWeTrust via Flickr)

How LA’s beach communities are taking cues from ‘Blue Zones’ to engineer healthy changes

Can the "Blue Zones" approach lower chronic disease rates and boost lifespans? Or is it turning into a lifestyle movement for already healthy, affluent areas?

Environmental Health, Mental Health, Chronic Disease, Food and Nutrition
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A mother’s anguish drives podcast series on toxic pesticide

Three children belonging to the same set of parents, with a combined four brain malformations that doctors say are unrelated. “The doctors are wrong,” says the mother.

Environmental Health, Women's and Maternal Health
Off-road recreation in the sand dunes.

Secondhand sand: How a state park is putting kids’ health at risk

Sand dunes at a state recreation area popular with off-road vehicles on California's Central Coast is sending tiny dust particles miles inland, creating an ongoing crisis in air quality.

Environmental Health
Amina Aun, shelter manager at Roy's Desert Resource Center, offers a tour of the shelter.

You asked, we answered: Why did Roy's Desert Resource Center close in Palm Springs?

This story was produced as part of a larger project led by Nicole Hayden, a participant in the USC Center for Health Journalism's 2019 Data Fellowship....

Environmental Health, Poverty and Class, Housing and Homeslessness
Cristine Pagan helps her son Dean with reading homework at a local library. When Dean started first grade at Comly Elementary la

How two reporters became ‘armchair environmental scientists’ for series on toxic lead in Philly

A dynamic team blended traditional street reporting with innovative scientific testing for a hard-hitting series on how the city's schoolchildren are being poisoned by lead.

Environmental Health, Community Safety
Agency Proposes New Limits on Time Kids Spend in Arkansas Jails

Agency Proposes New Limits on Time Kids Spend in Arkansas Jails

Soon, Arkansas won’t jail kids for longer than six months, in most cases, state officials said Friday.

Environmental Health

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