Chicago Health
23 August 2017
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
Several medical groups and hospitals in Chicago have formed an alliance to provide the city's homeless population with adequate health care. Some health clinics treat hypothermia, heat stroke, and more and place an emphasis on building stability and trust with the homeless camps in the city; other research labs work to get homeless folks off the street as a longer-term solution.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/the-family-doctor-minus-the-m-d
Tina Rosenberg
The New York Times
24 October 2012
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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.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/a-chance-to-go-from-hard-lives-to-healing
Patricia Leigh Brown
The New York Times
18 September 2014
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A novel way to help young men growing up in communities in which concentrated poverty, violence and unemployment are well-documented barriers to health and longevity: male youth of color are trained to be the emergency response team to help stabilize street victims before doctors or nurses begin procedures.
https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/in-india-leading-a-hospital-franchise-with-vision
Tina Rosenberg
The New York Times
16 January 2013
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Twelve million people are blind in India, and are robbed of their livelihoods as a result. A hugely successful chain of cataract hospitals in India helped its business by treating half its patients for free.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/health/san-francisco-hiv-aids-treatment.html
Donald G. McNeil Jr.
The New York Times
5 October 2015
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The H.I.V. infection rate in San Francisco dropped drastically after the city increased testing and created programs like Rapid, which immediately offer public health insurance, antiretroviral drugs, and personal counselors for people with AIDS.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/for-many-a-life-saving-drug-out-of-reach
Maia Szalavitz
The New York Times
22 September 2011
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drug overdoses are the leading cause of injury-related mortality. Naxolone, a drug used to revive overdose victims, is only available by prescription. However, private organizations have distributed Naxolone kits nationally, showing that the drug can save lives when it is more readily accessible.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-06-18/some-prenatal-care-community-affair
Shuka Kalantari
Public Radio International (PRI)
18 June 2014
Radio / 3-5 Minutes
Latin American women in San Francisco have suffered from post-partum depression, social isolation, and chronic stress at the time of their pregnancies. Run by midwives, the Centering Pregnancy program at the San Francisco General Hospital provides patient-centered care, an environment to speak in Spanish, and a nurturing community for women’s group appointments. The results boast fewer c-sections and pre-term births, and an improvement in emotional support and overall prenatal health.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/05/15/nepals-renegade-strategy-to-save-mothers-earthquake-misoprostol
Patrick Adams
Foreign Policy
15 May 2015
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In Nepal, a controversial drug is proving to be effective in saving mother's lives. It's the only shelf-stable, easy-to-administer solution to curbing postpartum hemorrhage. In trials, misoprostol is shown to save the lives of women who live far from medical care facilities. Since Nepal allowed use of the drug, postpartum hemorrhage has fallen from the leading cause of maternal death to number two.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/03/making-medicine-as-easy-to-get-as-a-can-of-coke
Sarika Bansal
The New York Times
3 July 2013
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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.
http://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/in-s-king-county-an-extraordinary-effort-to-bring-better-health/?syndication=rss
Abigail Higgins
The Seattle Times
25 April 2014
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In S. King County, Wash., the organization Global to Local identified Seattle's ironic status as being a global-health center but having an increasingly unhealthy populace. Global to Local pointed local citizens to a variety of services, using a "connect the dots" approach to treatment.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/the-doctor-will-stream-to-you-now
David Bornstein
The New York Times
11 June 2014
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Project ECHO - driven by a single doctor with a cause - pulled together a team of specialists to develop a model that combines technology with collaborative care and careful patient tracking to help cure for diseases spread to patients around the world through community healthcare agents, as opposed to only specialty centers. This kind of "disruptive innovation" is effectively working to demonopolize health care knowledge and access, and lends to a health system capable of meeting today’s soaring demands for care.
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