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  • Advancing immunization equity: Recommendations from the National Vaccine Advisory Committee
    Immunization inequity contributes to negative health outcomes for both individuals and the population as a whole. Equitable immunization systems not only prevent potentially devastating vaccine-preventable illnesses, but also generate health more broadly by attracting people, including marginalized populations, into healthcare to improve other health inequalities. While longstanding inequities in…
    June 2021
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Vaccine Access and Uptake, Social/Structural Determinants
  • You should care that COVID-19 is in prisons
    As society we put a lot of prisons in rural communities to create jobs. the prison is largely staffed by people who live in these rural communities. As people travel from their homes to work, to stores and to church, it's likely that SARS-CoV-2 will travel along with them. Rural communities don't have the medical services to deal with what is coming. (author introduction)
    May 2020
    COVID-19/Coronavirus
  • Child and maternal health in rural areas lags the nation, highlighting barriers to access
    One in five Americans lives in a rural area, including about 18 million women of reproductive age, but key indicators, including mortality figures, show that the health of mothers and children in these communities lags behind that of their urban peers and is worsening. Nationwide, child mortality rates have declined over the past decade, but recent research shows that improvement among infants…
    February 2020
    Maternal/Child Health
  • Racial equity in maternal and child health case studies on practices and Strategies that maternal and child health organizations use to advance racial equity
    Practitioners in maternal and child health (MCH) make it a priority to solve complex public health problems facing women, children, adolescents, and their families across the life course. The field of MCH has made significant advances in the past century, including the expansion of family planning methods and services, the eradication of once-common deadly diseases such as polio, and innovations…
    May 2019
    Maternal/Child Health
  • Violence against indigenous womxn*: Sexism, colonialism and health equity
    On Jan. 10, 2019, Taté Walker (they/them) presented on the violence and marginalization faced by Indigenous womxn*, primarily due to the ongoing, chronic impacts of settler colonialism. Walker, who is Lakota and a citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, is an Indigenous rights activist and award-winning multimedia storyteller. Walker observed that the U.S. murder rate for…
    January 2019
    Community Violence, Structural Violence
  • Community led total sanitation (CLTS) in the red cross/red crescent movement
    In the recent years, CLTS (Community lad total sanitation) has become widely promoted and implemented by several NGOs (Plan International) and sponsored by relevant donors (UNICEF) in Asia, Africa and Latin America. An initial discussion on CLTS was held in the IFRC WatSan global meeting in Dakar (June 09). At that stage, key WatSan stakeholders within the red cross / red crescent showed…
    February 2010
    Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Services & Programs
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