Official insights from Public Health – Seattle & King County staff
Compared to other places in the country, King County is a great place to live. But with more than 2,100 square miles and 39 cities to its name, the region is hardly homogenous. When we drill down to the community level, we find great inequities in health and opportunity in King County, and the story […]
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Being a new mom isn’t easy for anyone. This reality is especially true for moms with a low income who don’t have much support. Which is why, in 1999, Public Health – Seattle & King County began the Nurse-Family Partnership program (NFP) to help set young moms and their children on a healthy path for […]
Read MoreBy Janna Wilson, Director of Health Policy and Planning The new U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy came to Seattle earlier this month as part of a national “listening tour,” hosted by the Region 10 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office. I confess that I hadn’t given much thought to the role of the […]
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