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Community Health Workers Spread Across the US, Even in Rural Areas

KFF Health News

Community health worker programs can address common barriers in rural areas, where people face higher rates of poverty and certain health problems , said Gabriela Boscán Fauquier, who oversees community health worker initiatives at the National Rural Health Association. Learn more about KFF.

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Watch: ‘Silence in Sikeston & The Effects of Racial Violence’

KFF Health News

9, explores the connections between a 1942 lynching and a 2020 police shooting in a rural Missouri community — and what those killings say about the nation’s silencing of racial trauma. 16, explores the health effects of such trauma with mental health counselor Lekesha Davis. The second episode, which premiered Oct.

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‘No one can see you now’: What states are doing to boost primary care

Association of Health Care Journalists

Before joining the Fund in 2013, he served the state of Rhode Island for eight years as the country’s first health insurance commissioner. Prior to that, he was CEO of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island. Koller is also a professor of practice in the School of Public Health at Brown University. In 2020, U.S.

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Tribal Health Leaders Say Feds Haven’t Treated Syphilis Outbreak as a Public Health Emergency

KFF Health News

The public pleas for testing are part of health officials’ efforts to halt the outbreak that has disproportionately hurt Native Americans in the Great Plains and Southwest. The epidemiology center’s region spans Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Sign up for its newsletters here. Learn more about KFF.

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California pone gafas, guantes y máscaras a 10.000 trabajadores agrícolas para protegerlos de la gripe aviar

KFF Health News

“Estamos mucho mejor preparados para responder a una pandemia que en 2020”, declaró Amy Palmer, vocera de la Oficina de Servicios de Emergencia del Gobernador de California (Cal OES). Learn more about KFF. USE OUR CONTENT This story can be republished for free ( details ).

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Hospital Systems: A Framework for Maximizing Social Benefit

The Health Care Blog

Hospital consolidation has risen to the top of the health policy stack. It is important to acknowledge here that hundreds more hospitals, many in rural health shortage areas or in inner cities, would have closed had they not been rescued by larger systems. By JEFF GOLDSMITH and IAN MORRISON. Managed Competition.

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How America Lost Control of the Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic

KFF Health News

“Even if there’s only a 5% chance of a bird flu pandemic happening, we’re talking about a pandemic that probably looks like 2020 or worse,” said Tom Peacock, a bird flu researcher at the Pirbright Institute in the United Kingdom, referring to covid-19. ” Rural health departments are also stretched thin.