public health crisis

Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith has spent decades framing violence as a public health issue. She spoke to Morning Edition about how guns fit into that picture and what prevention would look like.

Mayor Andrew Ginther and other city leaders are declaring gun violence a public health crisis. We’ll discuss what it means to address gun violence as a public health crisis and what, if anything, can be done to combat it.

Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther declared gun violence a public health crisis. Ginther is asking the federal government to include Columbus in the National Firearms Trafficking Strike Force and creating the Columbus Alliance Against Illegal Guns.

Politicians in nearly 30 communities across Ohio and in Cuyahoga County are taking a stand against a public health threat that many believe put Black and brown residents at risk for serious health problems: Racism.

"The pandemic illuminated inequities that have existed for generations and revealed for all of America a known, but often unaddressed, epidemic impacting public health: racism," Walensky said.

As Ohio began to tally up the number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths from the pandemic last spring, a pattern became clear: Black and Brown…

Black Ohioans represent 14% of the state’s population but one-in-four of Ohio's positive COVID-19 cases, nearly a third of all hospitalizations and…

Gov. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) called racism a public health crisis while releasing a report from a task force created to look into how COVID-19 is hitting...

Cincinnati Council will weigh in on whether racism is a public health crisis in August. Three members will introduce a resolution when the council meets...

Hamilton County commissioners are declaring racism a public health crisis. The three-member board approved the resolution Thursday unanimously.