Community & Public Health

As more states consider legalizing marijuana, California's First 5 agencies are on the forefront of educating the public about the impacts during pregnancy and in homes with young children.

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

Residents of Shelby Park have long bemoaned their lack of options for healthy and affordable food, and those who shopped at the Save-A-Lot will likely have to travel a mile farther.

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

The Courier Journal has received support from the University of Southern California's Center for Health Journalism to embark on a project about food insecurity in Louisville, with the goal of presenting solutions that fit our community.

Harm reduction seeks not to shame people who use drugs into giving them up, but simply to provide them with the tools and support to improve their health.

She is ‘still defending that vote’ to repeal the health law, says her Democratic rival for Congress.

"What I heard, over and over again, were stories of physical violence in juvenile residential programs."

A new reporting project will examine child abuse deaths and near-deaths over a five-year span to gain a better understanding of how poverty contributes to child abuse across Alabama.

The Central Valley's Kern County reported a 30 percent rise in overdose deaths from 2016 to 2017, bucking the statewide decline in fatal overdoses.