This story was produced as part of a project for the 2017 California Data Fellowship, a program of the USC Center for Health Journalism.
Health Equity & Social Justice
The Castlemont neighborhood in East Oakland is known as a Best Babies Zone. The idea of this initiative is that improving life for everyone in the community will ultimately save babies.
A yearlong effort to obtain basic Medicaid provider data in L.A. was rebuffed. Some health care leaders shut their doors gently. Others slammed them shut.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf on Friday said he was directing state funds to begin a $15.7 million emergency cleanup at some of Philadelphia’s most rundown schools.
In East St. Louis, the school district is helping parents get back on their feet.
It's one thing to identify the complex social cause of this crisis. It's far harder to combat racism and stop more babies from dying.
Local politicians have long tried to find ways to better serve residents of this poorer, unincorporated section of Sonoma. Two reporters are now asking whether annexation can improve health.
Black youth are less than 27 percent of Louisville’s youth population, but they represented more than 75 percent of the youth bookings in Louisville’s secure detention center last year.
This project received support from the Center for Health Journalism's California Fellowship and its Fund for Journalism on Child Well-being....
