How Community and Public Health Impacts Daily Lives

Summarize local stories or articles from the newspaper that demonstrate how a community or public health impacts our daily lives.

Browse your local newspaper or other local publications for articles that focus on public health issues at the local, state, or national level. For example, reports or articles that discuss a train collision, an earthquake in California, the dedication of a new park in your neighborhood, an outbreak of the flu in Texas, low-cost child immunization clinics, or a free traveling mammogram program for low-income women are all examples of public or community health issues. Locate two examples of community or public health issues from a local publication, magazine, or newspaper. The examples you select should focus on completely different topics.