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  • Helping Brazil's Poor Heal at Home

    David Bornstein

    December 11, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Brazil

    Physical illnesses trigger and exacerbate poverty because costs are too high to treat them. The Associação Saúde Criança in Rio de Janeiro counsels helps by assisting families with services such as food, medicine, vocational training, housing, and legal aid, which helps mothers achieve their personal goals.

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  • Health law outreach to Asian Americans lags

    Ankita Rao

    November 23, 2013 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Rockville, Maryland

    In the United States approximately 15% Asian-Americans have no health insurance and have had a difficulty understanding the options available in the Affordable Care Act. Although the White House has reached out to Asian-Americans in video chats, the state and community forums for Asian Americans have proved to be the most successful. Interpreter teams help Asian-Americans with the paperwork and understanding the policies.

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  • HealthCare.gov is busted. These four state exchanges aren't.

    Sarah Kliff

    October 25, 2013 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Kentucky

    Accessible affordable health care is needed for millions of uninsured Americans. The Affordable Care Act is a viable solution that helps the uninsured. Although the launching of the website had some glitches, many states designed their own insurance marketplace and have successfully signed up people for coverage.

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  • Syria's refugee children haunted by horrors of war

    Stephanie Capper

    September 22, 2013 |

    ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |

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    Response Location: Turkey, Kilis

    Child Friendly Spaces in Kilis, a city with a huge Syrian refugee population, and UNICEF’s art program in Jordan’s refugee camp, try to address the mental health of refugees, who are often dealing with great trauma. “If we think these refugees only need food, clothes or medicine, we are looking at them like animals.” Organizers that run these programs say these programs are critical and needed to address the psychological effects of war.

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  • It really does take a village: How Memphis is fixing healthcare

    Alex Halperin

    September 03, 2013 |

    Salon |

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    Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

    Preventing and treating chronic disease for low-income patients is one of the most vexing and expensive public health problems in this country - the healthcare system in Memphis, Tennessee, is not immune. But in the middle of the last decade, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Memphis’s largest hospital system, began teaming up with churches to address the city’s abysmal health situation and reduce the cost of care.

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  • Making a Medicine as Easy to Find as a Can of Coke

    Sarika Bansal

    July 03, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Zambia

    A project to take advantage of Coca-Cola’s famous global reach designed a kit of basic medicines that fit in between Coke bottles. But it turned out that what it needed to be copying wasn’t Coke’s package delivery, but it’s investment in the people in its supply chain.

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  • California Caps What Patients Pay For Pricey Drugs. Will Other States Follow?

    April Dembosky

    June 24, 2013 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Few people can afford the cost of medications for chronic illnesses. California administrators of federal health care have limited the amount a person can be charged per month for high-end medicine.

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  • HPV Vaccine Is Credited in Fall of Teenagers' Infection Rate

    Sabrina Tavernise

    June 19, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    The human papillomavirus is a primary cause of cervical cancer. The HPV vaccine has reduced the rate of infection by half in recent years among teenagers. However, the vaccine has still encountered resistance by some social conservatives.

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  • N.Y.C. Nurses Aid Low-Income First-Time Mothers

    John Leland

    December 15, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New mothers who live in poverty are faced with fewer resources to help them with their physical and mental health as well as the health of their babies. In New York City, the Nurse-Family partnership matches nurses with economically poor first-time mothers. Different studies have shown that women in the program have healthier pregnancies and children.

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  • The Family Doctor, Minus the M.D.

    Tina Rosenberg

    October 24, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Delphi, Indiana

    Thousands of clinics in America have no doctors. The primary care providers are nurse-practitioners – and their results are as good or better than that of the doctors.

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