Poverty and Class

San Diego hospitals seeking are trying to steer non-emergency patients away from emergency rooms. Why? And how is the trend affecting county ER wait times?

This story was published with the support of the USC Annenberg National Health Fellowship and the Fund for Journalism on Child Well-Being.
 

Discrimination and segregation in America are nothing new. Measuring their effects on health, however, is.

Health workers and a younger generation help Hmong elders overcome a devastating past in one Northern California community.

in 2017, the rate of suicide attempts for Hispanic teens in Texas was 11.4 percent, compared with 8.2 percent nationally, according to data from the CDC.

The practice of harm reduction seeks not to shame people who use drugs into giving them up, but simply to provide them with the tools to improve their health.

Obesity is a major problem in Merced County, especially for children. So why is the local school district’s menu full of unhealthy items such as hot dogs and breakfast pizza?

Molly is one of the recipients of the 2018 Impact Fund, a program of USC Annenberg's Center for Health Journalism....

In underserved areas such as California's San Joaquin County, access to care can be difficult at best.

If rural America has become the new “inner city,” then nowhere is this more apparent than in educational systems.