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  • Revealing a Health Care Secret: The Price

    July 31, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

    An Oklahoma surgery center made news by posting its prices online – a revolutionary idea in an industry where consumers normally are buying blind. This is a big reason health care costs so much, but recent months have seen great advances in transparency.

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  • Talking Female Circumcision Out of Existence

    July 17, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Ethiopia, Kembata Alaba and Tembaro, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region

    There is nothing more difficult than changing entrenched cultural practices, especially those as shrouded in taboos as female genital cutting. A grassroots approach in Ethiopia, however, has nearly completely eradicated this practice in villages that use it.

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  • Summer Reading: How to Shake Up the Status Quo

    July 10, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Social innovation rarely comes from “eureka” moments; it’s much more deliberate - it’s something that can be studied and learned. A short summer reading list for anyone interested in shaking up the status quo.

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  • Africa's New Agents of Progress in Female Health: Traditional Male Chiefs

    June 13, 2013 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: Malawi, Ntcheu

    Some groups are making strides at ending child marriage and female genital mutilation, practices that are common and yet dangerous. They're doing so by reaching out to the men in charge.

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  • The Sense of an Ending

    May 20, 2013 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    More than five million Americans have Alzheimer’s or similar illnesses, and that number is growing as the population ages - without any immediate prospect of a cure, advocacy groups have begun promoting ways to offer people with dementia a comfortable decline instead of imposing on them a medical model of care, which seeks to defer death through escalating interventions. An Arizona nursing home offers new ways to care for people with dementia.

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  • Lessons From America's Safest Hospitals

    April 01, 2013 |

    AARP Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    An estimated 6,000 "never events" — egregious errors like operations on the wrong limb or instruments left inside a surgical wound — occur every month among Medicare patients alone. Hospitals across the country are revamping their care programs to stop preventable injuries and deaths.

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  • The Destructive Influence of Imaginary Peers

    March 27, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, DeKalb, Illinois

    People grossly overestimate how much their peers are drinking, having unprotected sex and getting fat. Instead of exaggerating the problem, the best way to get people to take care of themselves is to bust that myth and tell them the truth: most people behave well.

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  • The Benefits of Positive Parenting

    February 20, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, South Carolina

    Improving the way people parent might seem an impossible challenge, given the competing views about what constitutes good parenting - can we influence a behavior that is rooted in upbringing and culture, affected by stress, and occurs mainly in private? Triple P – Positive Parenting Program works to educate parents on how to improve their parenting skills.

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  • The Complicated World of Higher Education for Troops and Veterans

    February 01, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Afghanistan, Kandahar, Kandahar Province

    More than one million service members, veterans and their families take college courses financed with federal tax dollars. Their experiences are more complicated than those of their fresh-faced civilian peers, leading entities to explore the most effective ways to ensure they graduate.

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  • Leading the Way Out of Debt

    January 30, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Neighborhood Trust is a New York-based nonprofit offering financial advice to individuals experiencing economic hardships. Providing hands-on coaching, counselors are able to inform their clients about financial options they may have otherwise not known about like college financial aid or child care tax credits.

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