NC Health News

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

By Jennifer Fernandez Fewer North Carolina children are dying at the hands of a parent or caregiver, according to a new report by a retired leader of the states health system whose career focused on the well-being of children. He spent another 20 years working for advocacy organizations such as NC Child before retiring.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 13, 2025

The tool kit was produced in 2022 through a collaboration between Americares , a nonprofit that provides health-focused aid in response to disasters, and the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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Maternal Health Task Force

JANUARY 22, 2025

Mozambique faces significant maternal health challenges, compounded by ongoing conflict and a recent surge in political instability. The maternal mortality rate remains high at 127 deaths per 100,000 live births , far above global averages.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

One Gen Xer told The New York Times : “As I think of it, having a child is like rolling dice with the child’s life in an increasingly uncertain world.”. ——– The mess that is America’s child care industry (nurseries, daycare, preschool) may help explain why people are reluctant to have kids/more kids.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

This gene forces your child ’ s body to make toxic spike proteins. Yet, Offit has publicly questioned the practice of giving third doses to young people with no health risk factors, and thinks that a case of COVID-19 probably should count as a dose. Let me elaborate on the last part, because it’s important.

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Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

MARCH 14, 2025

The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 AMCHP Annual Awards. This combination of skills enables her to provide holistic support, addressing not only the physical aspects of maternal health but also the emotional and mental well-being of her clients.

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Fund for Public Health NYC

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Years NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan today unveiled “ HealthyNYC , ” an ambitious plan to improve and extend the average lifespan of all New Yorkers. Read “ Using Law to Advance Population Health Planning ” in Health Affairs.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 24, 2025

By Emily Vespa For more than four months, 32-year-old Jackson Hedgepeth has lived in a small room at Atrium Health Union hospital in Monroe, waiting for help. The next morning, members of the START team met the family at the Atrium Health emergency department. The stress of advocating for Jackson has taken a toll on Vickies health.

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Monday Morning

AUGUST 30, 2022

Messonnier is eminently qualified by virtue of her training, including the Epidemiologic Intelligence Service, her more than 20 years’ experience of leadership in infectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and her recent leadership of pandemic preparedness and health systems at the Skoll Foundation.

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HEALTHBEAT

JANUARY 30, 2025

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free Atlanta newsletter here. More expectant parents could qualify for home health care support, community health workers could get professional certification, and immigrant doctors could find an easier path to practicing in Georgia under proposals being considered by state legislators.

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NC Health News

MARCH 19, 2025

Credit: Melissa Sue Gerrits / Carolina Public Press Maintaining specialized, 24/7 staff, up-to-date equipment, and adequate space for a labor and delivery unit, also called a maternity ward, generates substantial expenses. Closing maternity wards has sometimes served as a warning sign of deeper financial troubles to come.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Parents who bring their babies in for checkups at this clinic rattle off the ways the money has helped, from the cribs, diapers, clothes, and wipes they’ve bought to how it’s “kept them afloat” during maternity leave or provided crucial income when a spouse died. The child poverty rate fell to a historic low.

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The Hill

MARCH 27, 2025

The Trump administration announced plans Thursday to get rid of roughly a quarter of staffers at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), prompting a flurry of warnings from Democrats, former officials and policy experts over the potential consequences for the health of Americans. Tammy Baldwin (Wis.)

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The Hill

JANUARY 19, 2025

Instead, they argue, the global gag rule imposes restrictions that diminish the effectiveness of global health programs. government global family planning funding, according to health policy nonprofit KFF. Congress also has the ability to institute the policy through legislation but has only done so once before.

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The Hill

APRIL 13, 2025

Maternal mortality rates have declined significantly across the world since the turn of the century, but global health experts fear that progress could be rolled back as a result of the Trump administration's cuts to U.S. spent $500,697,000 on maternal and child health programs abroad in fiscal 2023, according to an analysis from KFF.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 2, 2025

Its been little over a year since the measure took effect, and we now have a clearer picture of what it accomplished: more than 600,000 low-income North Carolinians received health insurance through expansion, surpassing in just 12 months a milestone the state estimated would take at least two years to reach.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 28, 2025

Between maternal deaths in child birth and infectious disease, it is no wonder that cardiovascular disease (barely understood at the time) was an afterthought. By MIKE MAGEE The recently announced limitation from the NIH on grants is an example that will significantly reduce essential funding for research at Emory.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 29, 2025

the presidents choice to take charge of the countrys health and well-being, many in North Carolinas health care and public health communities will be paying close attention to what the nominee and the senators grilling him say. By Rose Hoban At 10 a.m. But the document had been removed from the White House website.

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Black Health Matters

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Its goal is to increase the quality and affordability of health insurance, expand Medicaid coverage, and decrease the number of uninsured Americans. It also demands that all privately purchased plans cover maternity care, which had routinely been excluded from many individually purchased plans.

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