Readers respond to our reporting on strategies to prevent gun violence and other stories from our Fall/Winter 2021 issue.
>To improve public health, first fix injustice.
>Encouraging parents to vaccinate their kids against Covid-19 can be a delicate dance. Data, rhetoric, and insults won’t help. Listening and empathy can.
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The daunting problem has some powerful solutions. The first is family planning.
In righting wrongs, they’re protecting the health of millions.
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Public health can respond to the challenges of the moment and tackle fundamental barriers to health.
A child of colonialism, global health began with the export of Western concepts of health and medical care—and the protection of colonizers from local diseases. Here’s how committed insurgents in the field are overturning those lingering perspectives.
>Rumble strips, roundabouts, and other design improvements can drastically lower U.S. traffic deaths.
>My path to public health included a beauty pageant in the world’s newest country.
>Preventing Airborne Spread of Covid-19
Why it took so long to acknowledge that Covid-19 is airborne—and what we need to do now.
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