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  • Public-Private Partnerships can help Nigerian hospitals improve maternal health; Here's how

    Public private partnerships are helping hospitals in Nigeria provide more efficient care, especially as it relates to maternal health. In Lagos State, the model – which partners a private healthcare management firm with the hospital – has helped better equip facilities so more laboratory tests can be conducted in one place. Although this solution doesn't necessarily solve all problems faced by those seeking care, it has helped to provide a more sustainable model of healthcare in many cases.

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  • La ventilación mécanica: una esperanza de alto riesgo para pacientes COVID

    Este artículo explica en qué medida los sistemas de ventilación pulmonar mecánicos para medicina son soluciones ante una pandemia por enfermedad respiratoria como el COVID-19, pero en un país con altos porcentajes de población diabética, hipertensa y con obesidad, esta respuesta médica a la enfermedad también puede representar un riesgo.

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  • Ventiladores mecánicos: ¿qué debe tener para mantener con vida a un paciente?

    Esta publicación explica cómo debe ser un ventilador pulmonar mecánico para ayudar durante la pandemia del COVID-19. En México, al igual que en la gran mayoría de países del mundo, el sistema de salud no contaba con suficientes ventiladores para esta emergencia, entonces diferentes miembros de la sociedad civil juntaron esfuerzos y comenzaron a desarrollar sus propias máquinas de sanidad. Este reportaje presenta cómo una familia creó un ventilador que puede venderse en $700 para ayudar a la respuesta nacional de la pandemia.

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  • 3 lessons from how schools responded to the 1918 pandemic worth heeding today

    The pandemic of 2020 bears a heavy resemblance to the pandemic of 1918, and the U.S. can learn from the successes of the past. Investing heavily in school nurses, fostering cross-sector and public/private partnerships, and creating “large, clean, airy school buildings” to continue serving families and children—decisions made over a hundred years ago that are still just as relevant today.

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  • Vouchers helping mothers get antenatal care under lockdown

    To help pregnant women during the COVID-10 pandemic, the government in Uganda sold travel and private hospital care vouchers to those in their third trimester to ensure the women had access to the care they would need. The program connected the women with health resources in their own areas and also guaranteed that they get routine services such as antenatal and postnatul checkups.

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  • How Switzerland avoided a coronavirus 'catastrophe' by protecting cross-border workers

    Switzerland avoids a total shutdown of borders in order to keep its healthcare system functioning during the covid-19 health crisis. Healthcare workers are vital to border cities such as Geneva, which relies on cross-border workers who commute to and from the country on a daily basis. Health workers were given faster access at border crossings and other employees were encouraged to work from home after tax treaties and agreements were quickly re-written and passed to avoid workers and employers from being penalized.

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  • L'Autre Hangar, la plateforme de solidarité née du confinement qu'il faudrait pérenniser

    A Nantes, une plateforme appellée l'Autre Hangar se crée au début de la pandémie avec vocation d'acheminer des dons vers des gens dans le besoin. Un lieu de stockage est mis a disposition pour stocker et redistribuer efficacement denrées alimentaires et produits d'hygiène.

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  • Designed to Save Lives: Artists Craft Coronavirus Messaging for Underserved Communities

    Artists are designing bold and direct messaging to provide Covid-19 information to underserved populations. The messaging is explicit, often highlighting the role of racism in health disparities seen with the virus, and it is culturally specific to the intended audience. Messaging is offered in multiple languages and the information and images speak directly to the cultural norms of specific groups. Messaging is also delivered in a variety of ways, from fliers disseminated in Black churches to including brochures in bags of free groceries to hanging posters in residential buildings.

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  • There's already an alternative to calling the police Audio icon

    CAHOOTS, the 31-year-old program considered a model for the growing number of community-based crisis programs, fielded more than 24,000 calls in 2019, less than 1% of which required police involvement. The program's unarmed first responders use "unconditional positive regard," meaning support and acceptance for people in a mental health crisis. Although Eugene is relatively small, its proven system of de-escalation, meant to avoid police violence, has now been adopted in Denver, Oakland, Portland, and elsewhere.

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  • Las visitas médicas virtuales florecen en la era del coronavirus

    A medida que el acceso a la atención médica en las áreas rurales de los Estados Unidos continúa disminuyendo por múltiples razones, incluida la pandemia, médicos en Oregon acuden a la telesalud. "A inicios de marzo, antes de que pegara el COVID-19, 5% o menos de los pacientes de la clínica tenían citas de telemedicina. A inicios de abril ese número brincó a un 45%."

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