Community & Public Health

Last Tuesday, nearly 100 people gathered in Jackson to connect with their neighbors around a troubling statistic: Amador County has the third-highest suicide rate in California.

Environmental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Mental Health, Aging

A growing body of research over the past decade has begun to tease out the ways the experience of geography and discrimination affect physiology and health. Neighborhood conditions, access to healthy food, the experience of race and class — such forces can influence everything from average lifespan

This work is supported by a grant from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund....

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Food and Nutrition, Community Safety