This brief describes an unfolding learning journey intended to strengthen social connection, resident voice, and agency to address inequities in rural health and well-being. Along the way, we have come…
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Malnutrition in Children: What Are the Root Causes?
Save the Children Sep 23, 2022The world is right now facing the worst global food crisis in decades. The combined impact of conflicts, climate change, COVID, and the cost of inflating food prices due to the conflict in Ukraine crisis has…
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COVID-19 Can Cause Lasting Lung Damage
The Conversation Sep 23, 2022“I just can’t do what I used to anymore.” As pulmonologists and critical care doctors treating patients with lung disease, we have heard many of our patients recovering from COVID-19…
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Communities That Are Working Toward Real SDG Progress
GlobalGiving Sep 23, 2022If we want to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, we need to recognize and support the changemakers who are working toward them in their communities. Shifting, sharing, and ceding power…
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Polio Vaccination Rates in Some Areas of the U.S. Hover Dangerously Close to the Threshold Required for Herd Immunity
The Conversation Sep 22, 2022Given recent headlines, you may be wondering why polio is even an issue in 2022. For more than 60 years, vaccines against the poliovirus have protected virtually everyone in the…
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What Does Effective Health Equity Investment Look Like?
Grantmakers in Health Sep 21, 2022In 2015 the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) launched a project called the Health Equity Zones (HEZ) initiative, with the goal of creating a new public health approach. Rather…
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Flooding in Pakistan Affects and Exacerbates Public Health
Eco-Business Sep 21, 2022Amid unprecedented floods which have affected 33 million people and damaged nearly 900 health facilities, Pakistan faces the risk of widespread outbreaks of diseases, including diarrhoea, dengue, malaria, polio and Covid-19. The floods…
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How North Birmingham Became an Epicenter of Environmental Injustice
Grist Sep 20, 2022By the spring of 2020, the century-old industrial plant on Birmingham’s 35th Avenue was literally falling apart. Chunks of the metal doors fronting several of the 1,800-degree ovens — which…
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It’s Time to Pay Attention to Mental Health for College Students
Higher Education Dive Sep 19, 2022Zainab Okolo is a strategy officer and Jamie Merisotis is president and CEO at Lumina Foundation. Okolo is a licensed family therapist who used her research and work in mental health…
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The Relationship Between Periodontal Care and Overall Health
Futurity Sep 19, 2022People who have received periodontal maintenance care stayed in the hospital for the shortest time after a heart attack, a new study shows. The conventional wisdom is that medical and…
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Why Health Needs to Be Central to Climate Action
Wellcome Sep 18, 20221. Climate change is affecting food quality Global heating is making floods, droughts and heatwaves worse. These extreme weather events are changing the environment and affecting the quality of food…
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Lessons From 2020 on Homelessness During the Pandemic
National Alliance to End Homelessness Sep 18, 2022The Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) report highlights data focused on people living in homeless services system shelters throughout 2019 and 2020. This timeframe paints a picture of the status…
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