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  • Making a Medicine as Easy to Find as a Can of Coke

    July 03, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Zambia

    A project to take advantage of Coca-Cola’s famous global reach designed a kit of basic medicines that fit in between Coke bottles. But it turned out that what it needed to be copying wasn’t Coke’s package delivery, but it’s investment in the people in its supply chain.

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  • HPV Vaccine Is Credited in Fall of Teenagers' Infection Rate

    June 19, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    The human papillomavirus is a primary cause of cervical cancer. The HPV vaccine has reduced the rate of infection by half in recent years among teenagers. However, the vaccine has still encountered resistance by some social conservatives.

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  • Nudging Detroit: Program Doubles Food Stamp Bucks In Grocery Stores

    June 14, 2013 |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Organizations in Detroit are piloting a program to apply food stamp credits in grocery stores towards the purchase of nutritious produce, in order to increase access to healthy items. The initiative can also help the local economy prosper through increased promotion of locally grown produce.

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  • Doctors Transform How They Practice Medicine

    May 15, 2013 |

    Kaiser Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, El Dorado, California

    The Affordable Care Act’s provisions to increase health care while decreasing costs have caused physicians some economic uncertainties. Two physicians have transformed their practices into business models that offer more services than what the insurance companies cover. The physicians report that patients spend less money on medication and hospital visits, while providing more holistic care.

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  • Home visiting programs are preschool in its earliest form

    May 13, 2013 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Manassas, Virginia

    Through programs across the country, nurses, social workers, or trained mentors offer support to new or expectant parents, imparting skills to help them become better teachers for their children. Through regular home visits with the families, these programs are working to close an achievement gap between rich and poor children that starts as early as just nine months into a child's life.

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  • Medicine by Text Message: Learning From the Developing World

    April 04, 2013 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: Malawi

    Health communication systems designed for rural, developing countries -- where hospitals are often understaffed and transportation is inadequate -- are being adapted to improve care in U.S. cities.

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  • Fruit, Not Fries: Lunchroom Makeovers Nudge Kids Toward Better Choices

    April 02, 2013 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    With child obesity on the rise, public school students have lacked the motivation and access to eat healthy food. Different programs around the country aim to improve student diet in public schools, including Real Eats for Academics and Life in Los Angeles and Cornell’s Smarter Lunchrooms Movement, by emailing nutrition report cards to parents, presenting the healthy food with aesthetic pleasure, and the arrangement of the food for access.

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  • The Benefits of Mobile Health, on Hold

    March 13, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    The mobile phone is doing more than revolutionizing communication. It has the potential to improve many aspects of life in poor countries: commerce, health, agriculture, education - public health, especially, is being revolutionized by governments taking advantage of the mobile revolution by texting advice or sending voice messages to pregnant women, texting reminders to AIDS patients to take their meds, tracking the spread of diseases, allowing community health workers to keep records electronically and variations on all these themes.

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  • Bridging the Clothing Divide

    October 03, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, New Delhi, Delhi

    In the poorest places, the lack of proper clothing costs lives. Now a simple and efficient program in India is attacking the problem with the urgency it deserves.

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  • The Bicycle Revolution in Paris, Five Years Later

    July 18, 2012 |

    Inter Press Service News Agency |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    Paris is a city plagued by traffic jams and air pollution. In 2007, the local government created a public bicycle sharing program called Velib that has drastically reduced the number of cars on the roadways and parking lots. During five years, over a hundred million people have used the program and it has a quarter of a million subscribers.

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