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Coalition: Health insurance companies go too far; National push begins for affordable care
Source: The Columbus Dispatch
Original Source By Catherine Candisky Nearly every week after her mother was killed and her father was gravely injured in a car crash, Stephanie Beck Borden battled her parents' insurance company. He was ready to go home, insurance officials insisted. But he couldn't walk and…
Resource type: News
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The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Investments in Community-Based Health Care
Source: Susan Parker
This report shares the story, strategies and impact of Atlantic’s $452 million investment to support and strengthen community-based health care in Viet Nam, South Africa, Cuba, and the United States (U.S.) from 2004-2016. It offers a number of learnings centered around taking a systems-based approach…
Resource type: Research Report
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School Health Care Advocates Urge President Obama: Build On What's Working
Source: Hartford Courant
By Jesse White-Fres, Connecticut Association of School Based Health Centers StatewideTop officials with the School-Based Health Alliance applaud President Obama for inspiring philanthropic and corporate communities to invest more deeply in the success of young minority men, and offer a model that could be key to achieving…
Resource type: News
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Hogan calls on sound strategies to ensure access to health care
Source: Cape Argus (South Africa)
New Health Minister Barbara Hogan has called for innovative ways to deal with the scarcity of resources in the public health sector, saying there was no point in getting desperate about the situation as it was a growing phenomenon in South Africa. Hogan was not…
Resource type: News
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Congressman Visits Vallejo Student Health Clinics, Touts Proposed Bill
Source: Vallejo Times Herald
Pediatric nurse practioner Beatriz Coll, left, with the Vallejo City Unified School District's student health clinics at Elsa Widenmann Elementary School, introduces patients Giuliana and Francesca Jacobucci, 8 and 6 respectively, to Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, during Thursday's visit to the clinics. (MIKE JORY…
Resource type: News
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Health system has improved, but...
Source: SAPA
South African nurses were less likely to stay in the profession than nurses in other parts of the world, the Democratic Nursing Organisation of SA (Denosa) said on Wednesday. Denosa general secretary Thembeka Gwagwa said this was one of the findings of a survey that…
Resource type: News
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MEDICC Names New Executive Director
Source: MEDICC
Nassim Assefi, a physician serving vulnerable communities, human rights advocate and former content director at TEDMED, will lead organization to expand US-Cuba health cooperation [caption id="attachment_78580" align="alignright" width="265"] Nassim Assefi M.D. Photo credit: Niku Kashef[/caption] Oakland, CA (October 12, 2016) – The non-profit MEDICC (Medical…
Resource type: News
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Inequalities in health among children
Source: The Irish Times
by DR MUIRIS HOUSTON A MAJOR survey of 10-17 year olds in the Republic has found evidence of health inequalities among school children. The Inequalities in Health among School-Aged Children in Ireland report, published this morning, has been prepared from data gathered for the 2006…
Resource type: News
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Nurses: The Critical Link in Improving Health Care for the Underserved
Source: Gara LaMarche
Jennifer Wilson, Bermuda’s Nurse of the Year for 2008, spends her days driving the Azmobile from one island school to another. She coordinates an island-wide asthma education programme for Open Airways, an Atlantic-supported organisation that has helped cut hospital admissions for asthma sufferers by nearly…
Resource type: News
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No games, no lies, vows health head Hogan
Source: Pretoria News (South Africa)
by Graeme Hosken Newly-appointed Health Minister Barbara Hogan will change the way South Africa combats HIV/Aids and TB. Speaking in Pretoria yesterday, Hogan said health care was a human right. "Health care is about being responsive and supportive, and providing a good service," she said.…
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