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Child Marriage, Mental Health, and Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Syrian and Jordanian Adolescents: An Interview with Jewel Gausman

Maternal Health Task Force

Jewel Gausman, Areej Othman, Iqbal Lutfi Hamad, Maysoon Dabobe, Insaf Daas, Abeer Shaheen, and Ana Langer are currently conducting qualitative research studies on how conflict affects community norms that impact adolescents sexual and reproductive health needs and challenges in Syria and Jordan.

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What Role do Birth Certificates Play in the Global Fight for Gender Equality?

Maternal Health Task Force

This hidden human rights abuse has ramifications across all aspects of society and is inextricably linked to the fight for gender equality. Every child has the fundamental human right to an identity and nationality from birth. Not having a birth certificate has devastating consequences for childrens health and human rights.

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Kate Soper – The growth agenda is no longer feasible. What is the alternative?

Frontiers

Clean water and basic health provision and food and so on are a prerequisite for that, so we would need some growth in those areas. The EU has produced much documentation on debunking green growth in the 2019 European Environmental Bureau (EEB) report Decoupling Debunked. Who is going to develop this kind of cultural revolution?

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With Medicaid in Washington’s crosshairs, North Carolinians rally against federal cuts

NC Health News

These proposals would take away peoples access to health care, destabilize rural hospitals and challenge the bipartisan progress we have made here in North Carolina, said Stein, who noted that more than 3 million North Carolina residents about a third of the states population depend on the government-funded health insurance program.

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CDC Firings Undermine Public Health Work Far Beyond Washington

KFF Health News

The Trump administration’s sudden firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees gutted training programs across the nation whose participants bolstered the workforce of state and local public health departments that for decades have been starved of resources. That was far from its only purpose.

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CDC firings undermine public health work far beyond Washington

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. The programs are designed to cultivate a new generation of public health leaders, many of whom have gone on to work at the CDC. The Public Health Associate Program deploys recent college graduates and other early-career workers for two years.

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From abortion to Hurricane Helene to medical debt, here’s what drew readers to NC Health News in 2024

NC Health News

As we look back on the year that was, some of the most-read NC Health News stories included articles about Helenes effects, from its upheaval of municipal water systems to the use of cadaver dogs and other issues that arose during the aftermath of the havoc generated by the storm. Now their board will be reconfigured.