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  • Can Produce Prescription Programs Turn the Tide on Diet-Related Disease?

    Lela Nargi

    April 11, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Alameda County, California

    ALL IN is a produce prescription program that gives patients, who are dealing with a variety of cardio-metabolic or behavioral conditions, free fruits and vegetables paired with behavioral interventions, like exercise. Its “three-ingredient approach” includes a prescription for 16 weekly bags of produce that are delivered for free by a local farm, free exercise and stress-reduction classes, and food-as-medicine training for clinic staff who are key in patients’ success.

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  • Take this cash and call me in the morning

    Julia Hotz

    March 24, 2022 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Health professionals today routinely help patients access support services, like food and income assistance, that are crucial for their mental and physical health. Organizations, like Health Leads, have stepped in to manage some of this support. They encourage doctors and social workers to “prescribe” resources like food, and volunteers help by managing the logistics of things like transportation or application assistance.

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  • On Kashmir's border, health workers fight Covid vaccine battles

    Aliya Bashir

    March 17, 2022 |

    The Evening Standard |

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    Response Location: India, Kashmir

    In an effort to fight misinformation and vaccine hesitancy, teams of healthcare professionals travel door-to-door in rural communities where vaccination rates are low and COVID cases are high.

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  • Rootead gives birth to groundbreaking family care clinic

    Ben Lando

    February 16, 2022 |

    NowKalamazoo |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    Rootead is a mind-and-body-focused nonprofit that opened the Obodo Perinatal Easy Access Clinic which aims to prioritize the safety of the pregnant and parenting, with a goal of decreasing infant and mother mortality rates that are disproportionately higher for Black women and babies.

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  • Stop Viewing Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders as a Monolith

    Amy Yee

    August 17, 2021 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, Arkansas

    Data disaggregation allowed the CDC to quickly recognize the severe impact of Coronavirus on the Marshallese community in Arkansas. This was only possible due to a previous precedent of collecting health data from them specifically. Services to mitigate the spread and its effects were quickly put into place.

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