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  • Ontario is trying a wild experiment: Opening access to its residents' health data

    June 17, 2018 |

    Quartz |

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    Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

    Project Spark is creating a platform for tech companies to request access to the health records of Ontario’s 14 million residents. One hundred companies have already expressed interest. The project is motivated by the idea that access to such real-life data could further the contribution of artificial intelligence to the medical field.

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  • Painting the world for people who don't see color

    June 16, 2018 |

    AzerNews |

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    Response Location: Portugal

    ColorADD is a system of symbolic shapes representing colors for those that are challenged to perceive shades or are colorblind. The system is used extensively throughout Portugal on subway maps, crayons, and other appropriate places as well as being available as an app.

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  • Dancing Parkinson's disease away

    June 16, 2018 |

    AzerNews |

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    Response Location: Italy, Corriere Della Sera

    Research has found that physical movement, such as dance, can be an affective treatment and rehabilitation for people with Parkinson’s Disease. The Dance Well Initiative brings people with Parkinson’s, as well as community members, together to stage dance performances in gallery spaces as treatment and a creative response to the surrounding art.

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  • Saving lives in Senegal through Hope

    June 16, 2018 |

    AzerNews |

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    Response Location: Senegal

    A digital platform, called Hope, allows medical clinics in Senegal to track the amount of blood in their blood banks in real time and reaches out to donors via SMS to encourage them to donate every few months. When a rare blood type is needed, an emergency message goes out to all users in the same geographic area, asking them if they are available for an emergency blood donation. This platform has increased the number of blood donations in Senegal and improved patients' chances of receiving life-saving transfusions.

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  • Men Teaching Men To Be Better Husbands And Dads

    June 15, 2018 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    MenCare is a health education program for rural Rwandan fathers, which teaches tactic for parenting, couples communication, and understanding prenatal care. Families whose patriarch participated in the program reported less domestic violence than those in a control group. Educational groups for men are part of a movement for women’s empowerment.

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  • 'We no longer die in childbirth': how Indian villages saved their mothers

    June 12, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: India, Purabgaon, Uttar Pradesh

    Villages in India were recording record high rates for maternal mortality due to a combination of factors such has poor diets and lack of education, but a women's group has started a grassroots approach to mitigating this. Known as Save a Mother, this group "aims to educate rural women about pregnancy, nutrition, immunization, delivery and care of the child," and has already seen a significant decrease in the mortality rate throughout villages.

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  • LA Is Doing Water Better Than Your City. Yes, That LA

    June 12, 2018 |

    Wired |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    With climate change on the horizon, Los Angeles is rushing to pull water from surprising sources. The goal: aqueous independence.

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  • 'Where The Need Is': Tackling Teen Pregnancy With A Midwife At School

    June 11, 2018 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    In some D.C. neighborhoods with high rates of teen pregnancy, schools are stepping in with more than just school nurses; dedicated midwives have conversations with students, educating students, providing birth control, and supporting teens who have had children and continued with high school. The informal advice and constant presence in schools mean the midwives can reach students who might not have reached out otherwise, ultimately helping to prevent teen pregnancies and build healthier families.

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  • Training pivotal as cuts to mental-health services take hold

    June 10, 2018 |

    Daily Inter Lake |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalispell, Montana

    Law enforcement agencies in Montana are undergoing Crisis Intervention Training so they are better equipped to respond to mental health emergencies. After budget cuts resulting social worker layoff, the region anticipates an uptick in emergency mental health calls, so they are planning ahead to train police officers to respond.

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  • Kenya learns waste management from Tanzania

    June 09, 2018 |

    Nation Africa |

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    Response Location: Tanzania, Arusha

    Thanks to a modernized waste-management system introduced by Tanzania in 2014, Kenya is able to see a future for fixing their quickly growing trash pollution problem.

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