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Home visiting programs are preschool in its earliest form

Michael Alison Chandler

May 13, 2013 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: United States, Manassas, Virginia

Through programs across the country, nurses, social workers, or trained mentors offer support to new or expectant parents, imparting skills to help them become better teachers for their children. Through regular home visits with the families, these programs are working to close an achievement gap between rich and poor children that starts as early as just nine months into a child's life.

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Medicine by Text Message: Learning From the Developing World

Courtney E. Martin

April 04, 2013 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: Malawi

Health communication systems designed for rural, developing countries -- where hospitals are often understaffed and transportation is inadequate -- are being adapted to improve care in U.S. cities.

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Fruit, Not Fries: Lunchroom Makeovers Nudge Kids Toward Better Choices

Kevin Charles Redmon

April 02, 2013 |

NPR |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

With child obesity on the rise, public school students have lacked the motivation and access to eat healthy food. Different programs around the country aim to improve student diet in public schools, including Real Eats for Academics and Life in Los Angeles and Cornell’s Smarter Lunchrooms Movement, by emailing nutrition report cards to parents, presenting the healthy food with aesthetic pleasure, and the arrangement of the food for access.

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The Benefits of Mobile Health, on Hold

Tina Rosenberg

March 13, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Kenya

The mobile phone is doing more than revolutionizing communication. It has the potential to improve many aspects of life in poor countries: commerce, health, agriculture, education - public health, especially, is being revolutionized by governments taking advantage of the mobile revolution by texting advice or sending voice messages to pregnant women, texting reminders to AIDS patients to take their meds, tracking the spread of diseases, allowing community health workers to keep records electronically and variations on all these themes.

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Bridging the Clothing Divide

David Bornstein

October 03, 2012 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: India, New Delhi, Delhi

In the poorest places, the lack of proper clothing costs lives. Now a simple and efficient program in India is attacking the problem with the urgency it deserves.

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The Bicycle Revolution in Paris, Five Years Later

Julio Godoy

July 18, 2012 |

Inter Press Service News Agency |

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Response Location: France, Paris

Paris is a city plagued by traffic jams and air pollution. In 2007, the local government created a public bicycle sharing program called Velib that has drastically reduced the number of cars on the roadways and parking lots. During five years, over a hundred million people have used the program and it has a quarter of a million subscribers.

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Conquering Food Deserts With Green Carts

David Bornstein

April 18, 2012 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Programs to get fresh produce carts to areas with no access to healthy food work best when government and determined entrepreneurs team up. Success from this model is evident in New York City, where the city has incentivized the selling of fruits and vegetables by street vendors in areas that are in the most need of the produce.

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Saving Lives in a Time of Cholera

Tina Rosenberg

April 07, 2012 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Bangladesh, Dhaka, Dhaka Division

A cholera epidemic can kill many people or few people—it all depends on the expertise of the doctors and their access to the right equipment. A program in Dhaka rushes both to countries when an epidemic is just breaking out.

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In India, a Small Pill, With Positive Side Effects

Amy Yee

April 04, 2012 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: India, New Delhi, Delhi

In the developing world, intestinal worms stunt physical and mental growth, drain energy, and can inhibit school work for children. Deworm the World is a global campaign that lobbied the Delhi government to regularly distribute deworming pills to school children. The benefits decrease student absenteeism and increase cost-saving measures.

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In Africa's Vanishing Forests, the Benefits of Bamboo

Tina Rosenberg

March 13, 2012 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Ethiopia, Asosa, Benishangul-Gumuz

In Africa, many people rely on wood from trees to cook food over stoves. The tremendous usage of wood contributes to deforestation and environmental decline. Using bamboo instead of wood is a more profitable and greener solution.

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