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  • New York City Launches Initiative to Eliminate Racial Disparities in Maternal Death

    July 30, 2018 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    To combat racial disparities in maternal health care, New York is funding a partnership program between the city and communities to improve maternal healthcare for women of color. Both public and private hospitals will implement implicit bias training and the city will work to improve its data collection. Hospitals will also receive funds for health coordinators to make sure women are accessing care.

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  • To Keep Women From Dying In Childbirth, Look To California

    July 29, 2018 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Pomona, California

    A collaborative of California hospitals has developed standard procedures for situations that threaten a mother’s life during childbirth as well as a “toolkit” of everything staff need for a rapid response. As a result, maternal death rates fell by 55% over the first seven years of the collaborative.

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  • A Boston hospital promotes patient health with its own rooftop farm

    July 28, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Boston Medical Center is growing food on the roof. Their rooftop garden produces fresh fruits and vegetables for the hospital. The cafeteria serves patients fresh, healthy meals and teaches employees how to manage farm to table practices.

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  • In Palawan, reproductive health remains a top concern

    July 27, 2018 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: Philippines

    Roots of Change provides reproductive health education to young people in the Philippines. Despite resistance from the conservative government, they’re working to educate young people about sex to cur down on high maternal mortality and teen pregnancy. They train residents in rural areas, so that people outside of big cities have access to correct information about their bodies.

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  • 'Uber For Poop' Aims To Break Up Senegal's Toilet Cartel

    July 27, 2018 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Senegal, Dakar

    In Senegal, emptying your septic taste is expensive business; the two options, hiring someone to shovel it onto the street or paying a high price to the "cartel of 'toilet suckers,'" are not sustainable for residents or public health. To force members of the raw sewage cartel to compete with each other and lower prices, a new call center "auctions" the service by text to individual sellers instead of forcing people to contend with a banded group, and "prices for toilet suckers have come down an average of 7 percent" since the program began.

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  • Standing Rock Medic Bus Is Now a Traveling Decolonized Pharmacy

    July 27, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Frank's Landing, Washington

    Indigenous-led herbalists accompanied a two-week-long canoe gathering along the coast of Washington and Canada. They aimed to decolonize herbalism and support sustainable plant medicine and helped canoe gathering participants find “a deeper healing.” The group rode in a bus that previously served as a kitchen and treatment center during the Standing Rock movement.

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  • Wastewater treatment is a problem in the rural South. Who is working to fix it?

    July 26, 2018 |

    The Montgomery Advertiser |

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    Response Location: United States, Haynesville, Alabama

    In the South's rural Black Belt, wastewater management is an issue, but local activists, government officials, and civil engineers are working together to create a new type of sanitation system that works for the geography. The approach also includes public information campaigns to educate people about proper maintenance and stop rumors that can prevent that maintenance.

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  • Compassionate Mental Health Reform Began With Taking Off the Handcuffs

    July 25, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    After a brutal incident led to a violent attack and the death of his son, Senator Creigh Deeds was determined to reform the mental health system in Virginia. The Deeds commission passed a series of reforms, among them a law that created a registry of open psychiatric beds, a transportation program so that people don’t have to be detained by police, and a program that offers housing for people with mental illness.

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  • Checking the blind spot

    July 25, 2018 |

    InvestigateWest |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    In Oregon, there is a law in place that helps guide public school officials in how to react to a child with a possible concussion, but that law doesn't address what to do if a child suffers a concussion during private competitions. To address this loophole, concussion experts as well as a skier that had been impacted by this blind spot, led a legal fight that eventually allowed the expansion of this law to also cover "organized youth sports that take place outside public schools."

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  • In the Black Belt, a template for fixing failing sewage infrastructure

    July 25, 2018 |

    Southerly |

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    Response Location: United States, Alabama

    Improving sanitation and hygiene in rural communities requires coordinating experts and policy makers to find solutions that fit. In addition to coordinating research projects on alternative forms of sewage and wastewater management, the Equal Justice Initiative, the Alabama health department, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are working to educate residents about sanitation and public health.

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