LA Times reporter Sonja Sharp shares "three things I wish nondisabled parents would learn from disabled parents like us."
Healthcare Systems & Policy
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Imagine taking your kids on a trolley to visit the neighborhood park. Now, picture an electric transit system that’s fast and cheap and can take you to work right from your doorstep. What if Fresno could do all that, and reduce the local rate of childhood asthma?
For pregnant individuals facing multiple years in prison, a program offers unexpected hope and an alternative pathway.
This story is part of a series produced for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 California Fellowship.
Emily DeRuy reported this story while participating in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 California Fellowship.
Other work by her includes:
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In the second part of this multi-part series, we explore, step-by-step, the process for diverting pregnant people out of LA County’s women’s jail, moving them into housing and toward independence.
Though disabled women now get pregnant and give birth at the same rate as nondisabled ones, modern medicine has largely turned its back on them.
The number of patients with “unsalvageable” disease has ticked up. So too has the rate of amputations.
UCLA study answers some of the questions expectant mothers have had since early in the pandemic, when so much was unknown.