Section
Public Health
Opioids, obesity, disease surveillance, and population health trends across Pennsylvania.
- 01Pennsylvania's Opioid Settlement Funds: A County-by-County Ledger
Where settlement dollars are flowing and how counties plan spending.
- 02Adult Obesity in Pennsylvania: How Rates Differ by Region
State and federal data show stark urban-rural obesity divides.
- 03Pennsylvania Overdose Deaths by County: What the State Data Shows
Reported fatality figures from Pennsylvania's drug-surveillance dashboard.
- 04Lead Exposure and Pennsylvania's Aging Housing Stock: A Persistent Risk
Older homes concentrate childhood lead risk in specific Pennsylvania zip codes.
- 05How Pennsylvania Tracks Disease Outbreaks: Inside the Surveillance System
The state DOH reporting chain from provider to public health alert.
- 06Seven States Carry An Outsized Share Of Adult Obesity
A tight geographic cluster of Southern and Midwestern states carries a wildly outsized share of the nation's adult obesity burden — and the chronic-disease consequences that follow.