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

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

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.

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Low-income Washington state households still struggling with food insecurity as pandemic protections end

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The first survey in this series was conducted in the summer of 2020, the second from December 2020 to January 2021, and the third from July to August 2021. Buszkiewicz, research investigator, Epidemiology at University of Michigan SPH; Shawna Beese, assistant professor of Rural Health Promotion at WSU Health Sciences; Sarah M.

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Community health workers spread across the US, even in rural areas

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

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.

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One story does not fit all: How to change the narrative on veteran suicides

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

increase compared to 2020, and a sharp increase from the often publicly cited data. Many veterans health advocates say the updated number may still be underestimating the crisis. This community-based program leverages veterans to help fellow veterans build mental health resilience.

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

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

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.

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

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In 2019 he was the American Academy of Physician Assistants PA of the Year and recipient of the Primary Care Community Leadership Award and the National Association of Rural Mental Health Schumacher Award for Excellence in Clinical Service. 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

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

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.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

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

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

“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).

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Study: Rural residents more likely to struggle with medical debt

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NOVEMBER 23, 2024

By Liz Carey The Daily Yonder According to new research from the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center , rural residents are not significantly more likely to be worried about their medical bills than their urban counterparts, but they are more likely to have trouble paying them. percent compared to 6 percent).

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Hospital Systems: A Framework for Maximizing Social Benefit

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MARCH 21, 2022

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. How to Think about Measuring Social Benefit from Large Health Systems. Forty years later, there were 700 fewer facilities generating about $1.2

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

KFF Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

“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.

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Cómo una regla federal propuesta sobre el calor podría haber salvado la vida de trabajadores agrícolas

KFF Health News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

En una sofocante tarde de julio de 2020, Belinda Ramones recibió una llamada informándole que su hermano estaba en el hospital. Ella impulsó regulaciones sobre el calor en California en 2020. Cuando llegó, “mi hermano estaba hinchado de pies a cabeza”, dijo.

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How America lost control of the bird flu, setting the stage for another pandemic

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

Even if theres only a 5% chance of a bird flu pandemic happening, were 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.

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Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

KFF Health News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

” For example, in spring 2020, the North Carolina health department, led by current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Mandy Cohen, failed to get covid testing to vulnerable Black communities where people were getting sick and dying from covid-related causes at far higher rates than white people.

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

Low-income Washington state households still struggling with food insecurity as pandemic protections end

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Community health workers spread across the US, even in rural areas

One story does not fit all: How to change the narrative on veteran suicides

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

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

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

Event: 2020 United States Cancer Statistics American Indian and Alaska Native Mortality Database Overview: Mortality Estimates by Indian Health Service Area

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

Study: Rural residents more likely to struggle with medical debt

Hospital Systems: A Framework for Maximizing Social Benefit

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

Cómo una regla federal propuesta sobre el calor podría haber salvado la vida de trabajadores agrícolas

How America lost control of the bird flu, setting the stage for another pandemic

Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

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