3 天之前 · Who Are California’s Top Climate Polluters? As wildfires rage in the Los Angeles area, a situation likely made worse by climate change, Public Health Watch has identified the state’s 10 biggest sources of greenhouse gases.

2023年4月6日 · The Watch: November 14, 2024. Childbirth costly for many low-income Americans Low-income people with commercial insurance often have higher childbirth costs than people with Medicaid, a new study in Millbank Quarterly finds.

2025年1月23日 · Public Health Watch is a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization that focuses on threats to America’s well-being. 2110 Ranch Road 620 South

2025年1月16日 · Anatomy of an Investigation ‘sweat and blood … and even death’ by Public Health Watch July 28, 2024. Two years ago, Public Health Watch’s editor-in-chief got a tip about an unpublicized silicosis epidemic among immigrant workers in the LA area.

Our Mission We are the only nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom in the United States dedicated exclusively to investigating life-threatening public health inequities. Our mission is to improve people’s well-being through rigorous, data-driven journalism. Who We Are Based in Texas, we report throughout the country, with an emphasis on the Southwest. Our team comprises subject-matter experts led […]

2024年12月31日 · From life-threatening air pollution in a community near Houston to a resurgence of black lung in Appalachia and the real-world consequences of Texas’ worst-in-the-nation uninsured rate, Public Health Watch produced cutting-edge journalism on a …

2021年8月16日 · Today we unveil Public Health Watch, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news site that will focus on the prevention of illness, injury and death. The timing is fortuitous, given the maddeningly resilient COVID-19 virus. But the idea of Public Health Watch has been percolating for more than two years. While we’re all preoccupied with the pandemic, […]

2024年12月24日 · After scrutinizing thousands of pages of records, we conservatively tallied 1,073 people exposed to radiation in medical and technical experiments conducted by the San Francisco-headquartered U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory from 1946 to 1963.

2024年9月10日 · Millions of Americans — nearly 1 in 12 by recent estimates — lack health coverage. In some states the numbers are much higher, like my home state of Texas, where about 1 in 6 people are uninsured.. Now, with the end of COVID-era policies that provided coverage for many low-income families, the ranks of the uninsured are growing.

2023年4月4日 · Almost every day, interesting things arrive in my email inbox: Reports by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on topics as diverse as gun violence and black lung; new academic studies on toxic chemicals; new data on Medicaid coverage and the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease. We simply don’t have time at Public Health Watch […]