PRX - Pieces for Tagging: public health

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

6 results


Piece image
The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:05
Piece image
Black Americans are twice as likely to die from COVID as white Americans. Despite this, polls show that African-Americans are less interested in re...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:58
Caption: Chelsea Goodlow and her daughter Kaylee at the Indiana Black Breastfeeding Coalition picnic in August., Credit: Sarah Fentem/ Side Effects Public Media
The "breast is best" message seems often to miss black women, who breast-feed at a rate much lower than other races. Why?

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Aaron Murray pops a wheelie at the ParaQuad gym in St. Louis, Credit: Durrie Bouscaren
For every person shot and killed in the U.S., there are two who make it out alive. Those close calls can leave victims with a lifelong disability...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Keith Smitherman works as a violence intervention specialist for Prescription for Hope. The program is run out of Eskenazi Hospital and connects victims of violent crime to social workers who help connect them to career and educational opportunities. , Credit: Jake Harper/Side Effects
Violent crime is on the rise in Indianapolis. And research shows that poverty is often a factor. But a hospital in the city is working with young...

Bought by WILL


  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Diabetes among African-American adults has reached epidemic proportions. Healthy Bodies, Healthy Souls -- an innovative public health program in Ba...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2012
  • Length: 06:33
  • Purchases: 2