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  • Reducing emergency room use by targeting 'super utilizers'

    September 29, 2015 |

    The Baltimore Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Residents who use a disproportionate amount of health care, or super utilizers, are a high cost for the system. A hospital in Baltimore is following the example of other hospitals and focusing on the underlying problems of super utilizers to reduce emergencies and save costs.

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  • The Brave Young Doctors of Sierra Leone

    September 16, 2015 |

    PBS NOVA |

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    Response Location: Sierra Leone, Freetown, Western Area

    King’s Partnership and Partners in Health are outliers in the global health community in focusing on the mentorship of Sierra Leone’s next generation of doctors. The country has a profound need for more medical experts.

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  • Doctor slashes the cost of surgeries for India's poor

    September 16, 2015 |

    PBS NewsHour |

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    Response Location: India, Bengaluru, Karnataka

    In a country where millions of citizens make less than $2 a day, a chain of hospitals has brought down the prices of life-saving surgeries and pioneered a health insurance plan that is just 11 cents a month. These hospitals, called Narayana Health Systems, are exemplified by their productivity, efficiency and volume of surgeries performed, far outstripping the rates of American hospitals. To prove that the same model could work in a developed country, the hospitals opened a location in the Cayman Islands, which proved to be vastly successful and offered hope that this model could continue to spread.

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  • Nigeria's polio endgame and a chance to improve struggling routine vaccination services

    September 03, 2015 |

    On Medicine |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    In light of a study published in BMC Medicine, authors Nancy Fullman and Alexandra Wollum take a deeper dive into Nigeria’s gains against polio and what they could mean for the country’s routine vaccine systems.

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  • Why doctors are prescribing legal aid for patients in need

    September 02, 2015 |

    PBS NewsHour |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Omaha, Nebraska

    Many U.S. medical systems are using medical-legal partnerships to help disadvantaged patients who need help navigating problems with landlords and insurers that interfere with their health.

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  • Micro-insurance offers poor families in poorer countries protection from destitution

    September 01, 2015 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Dhaka

    All across Asia there is a growing market for micro-insurance, or targeted insurance policies that provide benefits to the poorest individuals and families. As of 2012, over 170 million people in Asia were using some form of micro-insurance, but there is so much more room to grow. Successful programs in India, the Philippines, Bangladesh, and other Asian countries are providing health, life, and accident insurance.

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  • Training Midwives to Save Expectant Mothers in Chiapas

    August 31, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Chiapas

    Through simple training and trust-building with their patients, midwives become more effective in Chiapas - and childbirth death rates drop.

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  • Ebola in Sierra Leone: Hail to the chiefs

    August 29, 2015 |

    The Economist |

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    Response Location: Sierra Leone, Freetown, Western Area

    Local leaders in Sierra Leone helped curb an epidemic, as foreign agencies encouraged chiefs and traditional healers to get involved. Local involvement created more effective engagement.

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  • When Prisons Need to Be More Like Nursing Homes

    August 27, 2015 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The U.S. prison population is aging, which is costly because older inmates need more care. Some states have responded by creating special wards, having the young inmates care for the old, or building nursing homes.

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  • A Racial Gap in Attitudes Toward Hospice Care

    August 21, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Buffalo, New York

    Despite years of change, African Americans feel ostracized from the medical care community that is dominated mainly by white people, especially when it comes to hospices. Some are trying to remove the stigma of hospice care as well as make health care systems more fair.

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