Exploring Health

JANUARY 15, 2025

Teaching Medical Students to Use Telehealth Can Reduce Rural Health Inequities Telehealth use has skyrocketed since the COVID-19 pandemic. This term refers to the issue of rural residents not being able to access healthcare improvements that are present in urban areas. Medical students have yet to be taught how to use it.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 20, 2025

She left behind her career as a health unit coordinator in Florida. While thats partly due to voluntary retirement, some older adults are forced to retire due to health problems, skill requirements and age discrimination. An older worker losing their job unexpectedly often ends up experiencing long periods without health insurance.

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Ageing and Health Mental Health and Public Health Health Inequalities Rural Health 130

NC Health News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By Jennifer Fernandez When the remnants of Hurricane Helene tore through western North Carolina , nurses based in schools and medical personnel from school-based health centers jumped in to help. The Hendersonville-based system supports more than three dozen school-based health centers in western North Carolina. As of Dec.

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NC Health News

MARCH 19, 2025

By Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press Financial pressures on rural hospitals keep some North Carolina facilities from adequately serving pregnant women, new mothers and babies, but that isnt the full picture. Even so, they cant afford to lose too much money, or their ability to provide other services could suffer.

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NC Health News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By Anne Blythe As executive orders and new policy directives come out of the White House at a dizzying pace, many health care workers have found themselves in a quandary. Now many doctors and other health care providers are uncertain what to do if immigration officers, often referred to as ICE, show up in their waiting rooms and clinics.

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