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

NonProfit Quarterly

For people who are reading the book and looking for suggestions within their area of work, we have a medical-legal chapter. DC: We know that addressing disparities in the South means really focusing on holding the health systems accountable—addressing bias and promoting respectful care—regardless of race, ethnicity, or geography.

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Music: A Prescription for Health and Social Connection

NonProfit Quarterly

7 While dementia can lead to social isolation, the reverse is also true: recent studies suggest social isolation can lead to a 50 percent increase in the risk for dementia and other medical conditions. Dementia mostly impacts older adults across all races and ethnicities, although some forms of dementia do impact younger people as well.

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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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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. Medicine 3.0: Medicine 2.0 is oriented towards the past: moving away from illness.

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Beyond Identity Funding: Rethinking Social Justice Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

Throughout its history, social justice philanthropy has generally remained organized around siloed identities, such as gender, race, and sexual orientation. Throughout its history, social justice philanthropy has generally remained organized around siloed identities, such as gender, race, and sexual orientation.