Too Hot to Learn
Overheated classrooms negatively impact standardized test scores, and were worse for Black and Hispanic students than white students.
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Food Sovereignty
The Native Diabetes Wellness Program’s Traditional Foods Project was created to increase access to traditional food through gardens, health fairs, storytelling, and traditional games.
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Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson is a poet, writer, and essayist. He works as the social media and community engagement specialist for Sins Invalid, a performance project based in disability justice.
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The Weight of It All
People with eating disorders who don’t meet the low-weight classification are often misdiagnosed, face size discrimination from medical practitioners and structural barriers to care.
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Call the Midwife
Birth centers had better outcomes compared to those who did not use birth centers, and can decrease racial and rural maternal health disparities.
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Pesticide Peril
Pesticide exposure was up to three times higher in California census tracts with a majority Latinx population compared to those without a Latinx majority.
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A Joke a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Humor is associated with increased mental wellbeing and decreased loneliness and headaches.
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Money Trails
High spending on lobbying and campaign contributions from the pharmaceutical and health product industry correlated with major health bills at the federal level.
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The Seat in the Classroom
Lower concentrations of high-performance pre-K programs were found in Brooklyn neighborhoods with more Black residents.
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Kathy Baughman McLeod and Roseann Bongiovanni
Heat is the deadliest climate event. In honor of National Heat Awareness Day, Public Health Post interviewed two leaders working to support heat resilience.
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