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  • What Makes Community Health Care Work?

    February 18, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Halgaon, Maharashtra

    The second of two columns on how ordinary women trained to become their village doctors are making rural villages much healthier. Financial incentives, supporting workers, and encouraging cooperation from governments are just some of the strategies being implemented.

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  • Villages Without Doctors

    February 14, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Halgaon, Maharashtra

    Many health professionals choose to not live in poor, rural areas that lack access to healthcare. The Society for Education, Action, and Research in Community Health, and the Comprehensive Rural Health Project are training local women in rural parts of India to fill this gap. These women visit families in their community and offer services like education on breastfeeding to new mothers and vaccinations to children.

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  • Making the Text-to-Mom Connection

    February 11, 2011 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Text4baby is a free service that sends text messages to pregnant women, and new mothers to provide them with useful tips to keep themselves and their babies healthy. This solution involves many different types of organizations such as for-profit health care providers, nonprofit community groups, wireless carriers, and government agencies. This program shows how you get a country — with all its diverse institutional strengths — to work as a team.

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  • Mothers-to-Be Are Getting the Message

    February 07, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Martinsville, Virginia

    An average of 28,000 children born in the U.S. each year die before their first birthday – and many more face disabilities and serious life-long health problems, often because they are born prematurely or at low birth weights. A free service, text4baby, delivers crucial health advice via text message to pregnant women and new mothers.

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  • The Hot Spotters

    January 24, 2011 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, Camden, New Jersey

    Dr. Atul Gawande finds that the highest hospital debt bills are from chronically ill patients who only receive emergency room care instead of the primary care appointments they need. By targeting these hot spots, doctors are keeping people out of the hospital and saving money.

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  • Pickups Mobilize Bolivia's Maternal Healthcare

    December 28, 2010 |

    Women's eNews |

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    Response Location: Bolivia, La Paz

    Mobile health units are rolling clinicians into remote parts of Bolivia and helping to lower one of the world's worst rates of maternal mortality. Reporting costs for this story were partially funded by International Planned Parenthood.

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  • A Plan to Make Homelessness History

    December 20, 2010 |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    By partnering with cities across America, the 100,000 Homes campaign is going directly to the streets to end homelessness - and it’s working. With roughly 700,000 people in the United States experiencing homelessness, this organization seeks to address that using a tiered system that considers individual health needs as well.

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  • Spreading the Care

    December 17, 2010 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Malawi, Lilongwe, Central Region

    Hospitals in Bogota are saving premature babies through the cheap and accessible kangaroo care, where mothers wear their newborns on their chest. A foundation has been transplanting the concept to other hospitals internationally through training programs.

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  • The Human Incubator

    December 13, 2010 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    A shortage of incubators in a Bogota hospital was causing rampant infections among newborns. Kangaroo care, a system where the infant's mother is employed as a human incubator, was created and solved the shortage problem.

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  • How Iran Derailed a Health Crisis

    December 03, 2010 |

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    Response Location: Iran, Tehran

    Two columns on how Iran is treating its massive epidemic of injecting drug use by tackling it as a health problem, effectively lowering H.I.V. rates among drug users using an approach to drugs known as harm reduction.

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