Health Equity & Social Justice

Are publicly funded school lunches contributing to the childhood obesity epidemic?

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?

Poverty and Class, Chronic Disease, Food and Nutrition

We placed a sensor inside the home of Cristina Sanchez (L) and her husband Felino Chanax (next to L), in Maywood, in southeast L

How Hot Was It In California Homes Last Summer? Really Hot. Here's the Data

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

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Community Safety

Caption: Three dental chairs keep busy with patients inside a specially equipped recreational vehicle operated by the Tzu Chi Me

In one California county, thousands still live without health care

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

Environmental Health, Poverty and Class, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform

Peer volunteer Jamie and program coordinator Jessica Smith at the Humboldt Area Center for Harm Reduction.

Drug users fight for acceptance in California’s deep north

Judith Lewis Mernit’s reporting on harm reduction in rural California was supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2018 Impact Fund.

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

A look at Californians’ uneven access to the gold-standard opioid addiction treatment

A look at Californians’ uneven access to the gold-standard treatment for opioid addiction

Why don't some addiction treatment centers in California offer medication-assisted treatment or MAT?

The crisis of chronic absenteeism in rural California

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

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

A customer buys a gallon of milk in the Cash Saver grocery store on Wilson Avenue. Sept. 25, 2018

Shelby Park's Save-A-Lot closed with little warning to neighbors

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.

Environmental Health, Food and Nutrition

Dare to Care relocation may bring job training, grocery to the West End

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.

Poverty and Class, Food and Nutrition

Drug Addiction: Controversial ‘harm reduction’ policy may lower death toll of opioids, meth

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.

Poverty and Class, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety

Washington state’s Cathy McMorris Rodgers, in no small part because of her leadership position, is a prime target for Democrats.

House GOP leader McMorris Rodgers faces Obamacare backlash

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

Environmental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform

Reporting Topics

Reporting Topics

Reporting Topics

Reporting Topics

Reporting Topics

Health Equity & Social Justice

Are publicly funded school lunches contributing to the childhood obesity epidemic?

How Hot Was It In California Homes Last Summer? Really Hot. Here's the Data

In one California county, thousands still live without health care

Drug users fight for acceptance in California’s deep north

A look at Californians’ uneven access to the gold-standard treatment for opioid addiction

The crisis of chronic absenteeism in rural California

Shelby Park's Save-A-Lot closed with little warning to neighbors

Dare to Care relocation may bring job training, grocery to the West End

Drug Addiction: Controversial ‘harm reduction’ policy may lower death toll of opioids, meth

House GOP leader McMorris Rodgers faces Obamacare backlash