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Promoting and protecting the public’s health: recommendations for a new Administration and Congress, 2025

Big Cities Health Coalition

To create the conditions for healthy vibrant communities, we need full employment and a livable wage; safe, affordable housing; access to healthy food; well-functioning public transportation; safe, appropriate K–12 education; and access to routine and preventive health services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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5 story ideas on migrant health crises facing U.S.-Mexico border

Association of Health Care Journalists

Much of the news coverage on the ongoing immigration crisis at the Mexico-United States border has been framed in terms of politics, economics and security. There remains no evidence linking the size of the immigrant population, including illegal immigrants, and the spread of serious communicable diseases.