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Mexico City: Disparities in Healthcare Pulitzer Center

WebWashington University in St. Louis Student Fellow Isabel Izek's project examines access to the available medical technology in the country's largest city, Mexico City—sharing …

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More Choctaws Have Died of COVID Than Those Who Died of the …

WebIn the tribe, there have been more infections among those between 21 and 30 years of age than any other age group. They, in turn, are spreading the coronavirus to others, Ben …

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How Extreme Heat Impacts Your Brain and Mental Health

WebImpaired sleep is often a trigger for manic episodes in those with bipolar disorder, she notes, an indication that it serves an important function in mood regulation. “Poor quality sleep …

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Health Stories With Impact: Telling New Kinds of Global Health …

WebThis webinar is the first in a three-part series on public health. Register here. Health Stories With Impact: Telling New Kinds of Global Health Stories. Image by Lucy Crelli/Pulitzer …

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Do You Live Close Enough to a Small U.S. Airport To Have Lead …

WebTaking off and landing with parks and schools nearby. Though it has now banned the substance, Reid-Hillview is among the best illustrations of how the last major source of …

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Treating Mental Illness in Resource-Poor Countries

WebA growing body of research demonstrates that low-cost, community-based mental health care programs can be remarkably effective in countries where resources are scant and …

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Exploring Mental Illness Through Musical Theatre

WebIn many ways, the phenomenon of musicals addressing mental illness has been brewing for years. As early as 1941’s "Lady in the Dark," mental illness has been explored on the …

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Indigenous Health and Migration in Guatemala Pulitzer Center

WebCarmen Rosa Benitez (right) of 32 Volcanes holds a health consultation with a patient (left), a Mam Indigenous woman, at the day clinic in San Juan Ostuncalco, Guatemala. Image …

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Haiti’s Forgotten Health Crisis: Women’s Cancers

WebBringing Hope to Women with Cancer in Haiti. The public hospital in Gonaives, La Providence, was built in 2014 through a partnership with the Canadian government. La …

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Exposing Inequalities: How the Health Care System Failed in …

WebThe country is incapable of responding to the ever-increasing number of patients who require assistance. Venezuela has unequal, expensive health care, so it is very difficult …

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Texas Matters: The Struggles of Life in a Border Colonia

WebAn estimated 500,000 people live in thousands of colonias along the Texas-Mexico border. Largely established between the 1950s and 1980s, state laws have been passed to try to …

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Into Their Own Hands: Kibera, Kenya’s Largest Slum, Tames COVID …

WebThe virus that causes the COVID 19 disease spreads because of poor hygiene and congestion. Kibera is a good example without meandering,” said Beatrice Anyango, …

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An Exodus of Nurses Has Caused a “Medical Brain Drain” in …

WebThe pressures within Nigeria’s health system have primed its nurses to leave the country.When advertisements for nursing jobs in the United States, United Kingdom, and …

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As Ukrainian Refugees Arrive, the EU’s Public Health Crisis Grows

WebWith over 1.1 million Ukrainian refugee arrivals in neighboring Poland alone, there are urgent implications for the scale-up of national health systems in countries across the …

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Why do so many Greenlanders kill themselves

WebSome suspect that Greenlandic teens choose suicide for the same reason young people do almost everything else—because they see their friends doing it. As Malcolm Gladwell …

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‘Air Conditioning Is a Human Right.’ Heat-Related Prison Deaths …

WebSeventy percent of Texas prisons lack air conditioning in cells and common areas, and the rest of the United States is not much better, according to Skarha.Yet prisons house a …

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In Ethiopia, Stigma's Barrier to Mental Health Care

WebThe women received mental health care and additional rented homes to serve as shelters for women who cannot return home either due to the conflict or the need for additional …

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Flooding Crisis in Lagos Threatens Public Health

WebThis problem is not unique to Satellite Town. There is a flooding crisis in Lagos, Nigeria, and the consequences are far-reaching, impacting both public health and safety in Lagos. …

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Guantánamo Bay Navy Base Raises Health Alert and Closes Facilities

WebUnited States, 2019. WASHINGTON — The Navy on Friday night abruptly shut down the church, schools, gym and most places where people congregate at its base at …

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