KFF Health News

JANUARY 21, 2025

. “I could see people standing on the roof, watering it, trying to protect it from the fire, and they just looked so hopeless,” said Ramirez, a community outreach worker with the Pasadena Public Health Department. However, with each extreme weather event, the county has improved its support for evacuees, she said.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 13, 2025

The Climate Resilience for Frontline Clinics Toolkit provided Helping Hand, which offers medical services to low-income and uninsured residents of Lee and Harnett counties, a road map for preparing the staff and its patients for storms and other climate catastrophes.” Chan School of Public Health.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 9, 2025

The wildfire crisis in California is not just an environmental disaster but a significant public health emergency with immediate and long-term consequences. The most immediate concern for health journalists covering this crisis is the impact of wildfire smoke on human health. As of Jan.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 17, 2025

Following a disaster on the scale of the Los Angeles fires , journalists work to answer immediate questions about what happened and what people need to know to be safe. Media coverage of disasters follows predictable patterns , many of which are known to misconstrue the larger picture. Andrew Lakoff, Ph.D. Kim Fortun , Ph.D.,

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The landscape along the creeks and mountainsides has been forever changed. Everyone has had to adjust to these changes and more, even as they’ve dealt with similar problems at home. Darlene Butler, the town manager of Spruce Pine, has had to ask residents to conserve water while crews scramble to erect a temporary treatment plant.

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KFF Health News

APRIL 8, 2025

So, the professor of environmental health at Colorado State University devised a plan to get answers. “These disaster events keep happening. “These disaster events keep happening. The EPA press office declined to comment in an e-mail to KFF Health News. A measure by U.S. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.)

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HEALTHBEAT

APRIL 8, 2025

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. So, the professor of environmental health at Colorado State University devised a plan to get answers. These disaster events keep happening. The EPA press office declined to comment in an email to KFF Health News.

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