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Closing Care Gaps: Physician Shortages, Medical Deserts, and Health Disparities

NonProfit Quarterly

However, in the United States, the number of physicians and surgeons—including specific medical and surgical specialties that are vital for vulnerable populations—is in decline. Some of the medical and surgical specialties that treat conditions more common in older Americans…are among those most significantly impacted by potential shortages.

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Music: A Prescription for Health and Social Connection

NonProfit Quarterly

1 And without intervention, health inequities will persist. For public health professionals, this raises the question: What can be done to mitigate the burden of dementia? For public health professionals, this raises the question: What can be done to mitigate the burden of dementia? What is dementia? Who is impacted by dementia?

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How to Address the Maternal Mortality Crisis: A Conversation with Dorothy Cilenti

NonProfit Quarterly

To combat the maternal mortality crisis, over 150 maternal health experts came together to write The Practical Playbook III: Working Together to Improve Maternal Health. The book was published by the de Beaumont Foundation in partnership with the Maternal Health Learning & Innovation Center and Oxford University Press.

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Creating partnerships: Closing the gender pay gap by challenging the status quo together 

Candid

Additionally, women are often clustered in jobs predominantly filled by females, such as child care workers, home health aides, and nursing and medical assistants—a phenomenon referred to as “occupational segregation.” As a result, many women are steered into sectors where they are likely to be paid less. Phillips, and Erika V.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NGOs scaled solutions to educational problems in India for decades without sufficient reading or math improvement. An Inspiration In the eyes of medical experts , the future of medicine is to prioritize keeping people healthy for longer periods. instead prioritizes creating and sustaining health over curing diseases.

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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

Political figures, professionals, teachers, Buddhist monks, and people from various ethnic minority groups were executed. If you were educated or even looked like you were by wearing glasses, you were destroyed. About seven years ago, UCC launched Living Arts , which is open to youth of any culture or race, ages 14 to 24.

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The Silent Epidemic Killing Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

A recent report in the Lancet medical journal explores the racial inequities in homicide rates using data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Vital Statistics System to analyze homicide rates of Black women between the ages of 25 and 44 in 30 states across the country. “To

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