Public Health
Public Health is a critical area of focus for local and state government agencies, involving health promotion, disease prevention, and preparedness for health emergencies within communities. Governments are responsible for implementing public health policies, managing healthcare services, and responding to crises like pandemics. This directory provides articles on public health, along with related topics like SafeGov, which covers strategies and initiatives for protecting the well-being and security of the public through effective governance.
Med-Care EMS asked McAllen leaders to choose one of four subsidy options because of cost increases
Recently passed legislation promises local government leaders with new funding opportunities in the coming months … and the coming years
Mayor Eric Adams says he wants LEOs and medics to more aggressively get severely mentally ill individuals off the streets and subways and into treatment
If older people are targets for people’s anger or rage and there are few programs in place to help them, what might this mean?
Discrimination places a huge and often unseen burden on the country that is experienced in different ways by different groups and in different areas of life
Sustainability
States, including California, as well as environmental groups are already threatening lawsuits to block the revisions to the National Environmental Policy Act, which would probably push the issue into next year, meaning they hinge on Trump’s re-election.
“Where do people who are just barely making it go? How about these people who we promised a chance at the American dream?”
There are four vacant homes for every homeless person in Oakland. These women are saying enough.
Recent earthquakes hit a region still struggling to recover from Hurricane Maria’s devastation two years ago
The governor and former mayor said compassion for those who are homeless “isn’t allowing a person suffering a severe psychotic break or from a lethal substance abuse addiction to literally drift towards death on our streets and sidewalks.”
Mothers of the recently murdered inmates say their sons had pleaded for help or transfers to safer spaces before they died in the violence.
School violence stemming from bullying “is not something we’re going to discipline our way out of”
Governor Greg Abbott has tweeted videos that he calls evidence of the homeless threatening public safety in Texas’ capital city, and urged his nearly 330,000 followers to share more.
Jeremy Elledge knows that a future where families don’t pass down baggage and where schools understand how to care for hurting students is possible
Gabby Alcantara-Anderson is one of about 25,600 unionized Disney workers making less than $15 an hour. And life in the world’s vacation kingdom is a calculus of choices: rent, food, medicine, a birthday gift for her child.
Officials from Ohio’s Summit and Cuyahoga counties allege that pharmacies contributed to the addictions crisis by filling prescriptions for an “excessive volume” of opioids written by doctors and other practitioners.
The bulk of the borrowing proposal would go toward reducing wildfire risk throughout the state. It also includes money to protect farmland from climate change, bolster the state’s scarce water sources and help coastal communities plan for sea level rise.
An Emergency Medical Services official said the county could not rule out carbon monoxide in the recent deaths of two infants at the complex until autopsies are done.
The need for the training is high. The former chairwoman of the state Human Trafficking Commission said North Carolina is thought to have one of the top rates of human trafficking in the nation.
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