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  • ¿Sabía que morir del cáncer colorrectal es casi 100% prevenible?

    October 22, 2021 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica

    Un programa de tamizaje organizado para cáncer colorrectal en el sistema de salud de Costa Rica está mostrando resultados positivos en la prevención y detección temprana de este cáncer, lo que permitierá escalarlo aun tamizaje generalizado en el país.

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  • Richland County's infant mortality rates show improvement; health officials say there's still more to be done

    October 22, 2021 |

    WOIO-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Richland County, Ohio

    To combat rising infant mortality rates, rural Richland County’s public health officials began a program to meet the needs of new and soon-to-be moms. The program provides maternal and infant care education as well as ensuring pregnant women have their basic needs met. One priority is making sure women get to their doctor’s appointments and have the transportation to do so. New moms receive a home visit from a public health nurse who delivers a portable crib along with information about infant care and safe sleep habits. The county hasn’t recorded a sleep-related death since starting the program.

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  • Medication and Recovery: Doctors Say Access to Critical Addiction Care is Difficult in Appalachia

    October 21, 2021 |

    100 Days in Appalachia |

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    Response Location: United States, Wise, Virginia

    The Health Wagon provides medical care to those experiencing addiction. The Health Wagon also provides services for those in recovery, including medications, counseling, and peer support groups in an effort to reduce relapses and overdose deaths which have skyrocketed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • ‘I understand your concern': Sedgwick County's COVID Ambassador program beats back vaccine hesitancy

    October 21, 2021 |

    The Wichita Beacon |

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    Response Location: United States, Sedgwick County, Kansas

    The COVID Ambassador program trains people to listen, be empathetic, and acknowledge people’s COVID-19 vaccine concerns. Ambassadors’ training includes substantial practice talking to people who are resistant to getting vaccinated and they receive ongoing support at bi-monthly meetings, which has increased their confidence and led to more conversations with community members hesitant to get vaccinated. Like other community health worker programs, the ambassador program’s ability to be successful relies on the idea that people trust information from their peers more than from the government.

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  • Biden plan: How tax credits might be the solution for family caregivers

    October 19, 2021 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Veterans Health Administration's Caregiver Support Program offers resources to family caregivers looking after veterans, including a monthly stipend, medical services, counseling and mental health care, respite care and coverage for travel expenses. The Program launched in 2011 and by 2014 about 15,600 caregivers had been approved for support — greatly exceeding the Program’s original estimate of 4,000 people.

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  • Unionization could help home health care workers with wages, experts say

    October 19, 2021 |

    Detroit Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    SEIU represents about 500,000 home care workers nationwide, offering union benefits and protections like individual health care, a retirement program, raises and better wages, additional training and access to personal protective equipment. For many — especially those working in Washington, California, New York and Illinois — unionization is a large part of the solution for home caregivers to receive representation and a living wage.

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  • Biden's $400B plan to overhaul home care is 'more of a repair effort than a new direction'

    October 19, 2021 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    Several government programs and funding measures are emerging to improve home care options for families in need, such as increasing wages and benefit opportunities for providers. There are also nonprofits like All Things Home Care that provide transportation to area home care workers and represents its workers with a union to afford them better treatment to ensure those in need can still receive necessary care at home.

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  • Biden caregiving plan: Housing availability, politics hinder transition to more in-home care

    October 19, 2021 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Money Follows the Person is a federal program that increases access to Medicaid funds for home and community care services for people transitioning out of institutional care. The program has helped more than 101,000 people move out of long-term care facilities into community or home living. The program has also helped people save money by cutting taxpayers’ Medicaid and Medicare bills by about 23% for each person who was moved out of a nursing home or other institution. Based on the program’s success, the current administration is reviewing plans to extend or make Money Follows the

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  • Rural Health Mission Nigeria: Providing Lifesaving Care to Mothers and Babies in Plateau State

    October 18, 2021 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Wase Local Government Area, Plateau State

    The Lifesaving Intervention Project offers postnatal services to mothers and newborns via community health workers who are trained in maternal and child health. After giving birth, the women receive follow-up care over the phone and through home visits and are referred to health facilities when additional care is needed. The support services have increased the percent of women getting post-natal care and have improved postpartum mental health. The health workers also provide information about the health benefits of exclusive breastfeeding, delivering in facilities, and birth control to space out children.

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  • Spain has one the highest vaccination rates in the world without government mandates or incentives. Here is what's behind the Spanish success story and what others could learn from it.

    October 17, 2021 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Spain

    Spain achieved one of the highest vaccination rates among Western countries in part because of longstanding trust and confidence in the public health system and data-informed strategies. The public generally trusted the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine because of a history of cooperation and positive public health outcomes. The norm of inter-generational living also gave young people more incentive to get vaccinated to protect their elderly residents and officials used this as part of the public health messaging. Officials also personally called and set up vaccine appointments for everyone they could reach.

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