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.
Orlando will begin testing two driverless buses that will run daily on traditional bus routes
31 residents died in the Christmas 2022 storm that dumped over 50-inches of snow with hurricane-force winds
LVMPD started a Police Employee Assistance Program, which was established to help officers through crisis intervention and referral to counseling services
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.
The nonprofit Blue H.E.L.P. reported 228 officer deaths by suicide this past year.
When a school system wants to remove a violent disabled child from those classrooms, the layers of documentation and data-keeping required under the law can take months -- and during that time, other children have been severely injured.
The backlog of 34 unfunded projects -- which include abandoned mines that discharged heavy metals and arsenic in the West to an old wood pulp site in Mississippi and a defunct dry cleaner that released toxic solvents in North Carolina -- is up from only 12 in 2016, Obama’s last year, and the most at least since 2004.
Duke Energy pleaded guilty in 2015 to federal environmental crimes after an investigation found the company allowed coal ash dumps at five power plants to leak toxic waste into water supplies.
What hurts the most, said Kellee Fernandez, sister to one of the victims, is knowing how much her brother had to offer to others
The Iowa City Council in August declared a “climate crisis” and called for a 45 percent reduction in carbon emissions from 2010 levels by 2030 and for reaching net zero by 2050.
Birmingham firefighter Gary Michael Horsley Jr. says in his lawsuit filed last week that the station has reopened despite safety concerns.
“Corporate greed is threatening one of the most basic necessities of life: clean water,” the Vermont senator and former mayor said in a statement.
