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  • Trauma to triumph: ASHA helping women overcome depression in India

    To help provide rural access to mental health care in India, ASHAs (appointed female healthcare workers) work in their local communities to identify and support women in need. By providing free listening and support services in addition to their medical care, ASHAs have helped thousands of impoverished women recover from depression.

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  • Don't call it vegan: What hospitals are learning about nudging people to eat greener

    Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospitals in Boston found success encouraging staff to eat more plant-based meals by emphasizing the climate benefits and not labeling foods as vegan or vegetarian.

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  • Responding to the call - EMS in rural Minnesota

    Emergency medical services in rural Minnesota are dealing with staffing and funding shortages by creating new systems that allow them to work together to respond to calls and are more flexible with where volunteers need to be located.

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  • Pediatricians are giving out free gun locks to approach the gun violence epidemic as a public health crisis

    In an effort to encourage gun owners to safely store their firearms and keep them away from children, free gun locks are available with no questions asked at the St. Louis Children’s Hospital in Missouri. The pediatricians are trained to have non-judgemental conversations about safe storage education during a child’s appointment.

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  • Crisis Mode

    Tucson's Crisis Response Center and Mental Health Support Team are designed to provide immediate help to people in mental health crises rather than routing them through the criminal legal system. The system, which serves nearly 15,000 people annually, is now being used as a model for efforts in other areas, such as Lane County, Oregon.

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  • An ‘OG COVID Crew' nurse at Tucson's Banner-University, her story illustrates Arizona's urgent health care dilemmas

    The COVID-19 pandemic shed light on, and exasperated, existing issues in Arizona’s healthcare industry. Medical staff are still dealing with the repercussions and are speaking up to demand better working conditions.

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  • Program trains teachers, officials to stop bad bleeds

    Stop the Bleed distributes equipment kits to agencies and departments trained in handling severe bleeds and tasks them to educate school officials on the task.

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  • A growing club: Membership-based direct primary care reimagines health coverage

    Healthcare providers are turning to the direct primary care model to avoid being overbooked and to provide their patients with more personalized care. In this model, a membership fee is paid directly to the provider instead of billed to insurance agencies.

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  • Rift Valley Fever Surveillance

    Heath care workers and Ugandan officials are containing Rift Valley Fever through heightened surveillance by a team that monitors and reports all potential cases. They also made symptoms clear to the public so they, too, can report potential cases.

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  • Successes Against Female Genital Mutilation in Enugu State

    Residents of Enugu State, Nigeria, are putting a stop to female genital mutilation by spreading awareness about the dangers of the practice to communities and enacting laws against it.

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