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Sustaining Health Care as Crisis in Haiti Escalates

(4 days ago) WEBThe local staff of a dozen hospitals with deep ties to Harvard Medical School are still providing crucial health care to some of Haiti’s most vulnerable people during …

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/sustaining-health-care-crisis-haiti-escalates

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Haiti violence: Health system nears collapse as gangs attack …

(4 days ago) WEBHaiti’s health system has long been fragile, but it’s now nearing total collapse after gangs launched coordinated attacks on Feb. 29, targeting critical …

https://apnews.com/article/haiti-medical-crisis-gangs-medicine-shortage-dc786ed53e66b6081515474b5b310525

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Strengthening Access to Quality Healthcare in Haiti

(Just Now) WEBHaiti has had mixed progress in improving the access to and quality of its health services, hampering the improvement in health outcomes. Maternal and neonatal mortality remain high. The rates have …

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2023/04/06/access-to-quality-healthcare-in-haiti

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Haiti's chaos puts both patients and health-care workers …

(3 days ago) WEBThis hospital in Port-au-Prince was damaged during an armed attack in November. With the current unrest in Haiti, health-care facilities are at even greater risk …

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/03/15/1238778301/this-is-not-a-time-to-get-sick-says-a-doctor-in-haiti-on-the-health-care-crisis

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Amid Haiti’s escalating chaos, a ‘heroic network’ keeps

(5 days ago) WEBGene Kwan, a cardiologist and global health researcher based at Boston University, last year applied for NIH funding to run a study assessing whether artificial …

https://www.science.org/content/article/amid-haiti-s-escalating-chaos-heroic-network-keeps-medical-research-running

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Health System Strengthening in Haiti Haiti Fact Sheet

(2 days ago) WEBHaiti’s health systems continue to face complex challenges, including the lack of governance and sector coordination; financial and geographical barriers to accessing …

https://www.usaid.gov/haiti/fact-sheet/health-system-strengthening-haiti

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Public Health in Haiti — Challenges and Progress NEJM

(Just Now) WEBThe gendered implications of energy gaps in health care: A comparative analysis of Haiti, Senegal, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Health Care for Women International, 44, 9, (1050-1072

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1100118

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CDC in Haiti Global Health CDC

(Just Now) WEBThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Haiti office opened in 2002 and focused on preventing the transmission of HIV/AIDS, providing care and treatment to …

https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/countries/haiti/default.htm

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Haiti - Country Profile Health in the Americas

(8 days ago) WEBLife expectancy at birth in 2023 was 64.8 years, lower than the average for the Region of the Americas and 6.4 years higher that in 2000. Figure 1. Population pyramids of Haiti, years 2000 and 2023. The unemployment …

https://hia.paho.org/en/countries-22/haiti-country-profile

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The health care impact of Haiti's violence : NPR

(3 days ago) WEBDownload. Embed. Transcript. The constant state of crisis in Haiti is taking a toll on health care facilities in the country. Some doctors and staff are no longer …

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/16/1239003857/the-health-care-impact-of-haitis-violence

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Haïti : Humanitarian note - Series - New paradigm Issue 2

(5 days ago) WEBThe costs of care represent an additional burden on households, as the funding of the Haitian health system relies mainly on citizens and international aid2, …

https://reliefweb.int/report/haiti/haiti-humanitarian-note-series-new-paradigm-issue-2-impact-violence-access-health-care-23-april-2023

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Life expectancy, death, and disability in Haiti, 1990-2017: a

(3 days ago) WEBPublic health issues remain a daunting challenge in Haiti. Almost all sociodemographic and health indicators point to large differences between Haiti and its …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7603356/

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An Introduction to Structural Competency for Haitian-Identified

(3 days ago) WEBNo assessment of change in behavior or attitude was done. Change in attendees’ competency in Haitian-identified patients’ health care issues may not be …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8710435/

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Health Haiti U.S. Agency for International Development

(3 days ago) WEBIn Haiti’s health sector, there have been positive gains in some areas with stagnation in others. These mixed results reflect a health sector that continues to face significant …

https://www.usaid.gov/haiti/our-work/health

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Haiti making good progress in health but challenges remain

(3 days ago) WEBHaiti's health-care indices have been the grimmest in South America and the Caribbean for decades, so when a devastating earthquake struck in 2010 and was …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)61835-3/fulltext

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Are Infectious Diseases Now Really Haiti's Biggest Health Threat?

(1 days ago) WEBMany diseases, including malaria, HIV and typhoid, were already widespread issues in Haiti before the earthquake struck, and the intensely weakened health care …

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/haiti-disease-mental-health/

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Haiti's Health System - Centers for Disease Control and …

(5 days ago) WEBHealth Systems Reconstruction Program. On January 12, 2010, the world looked on as Haiti struggled with the aftermath of the massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake that killed …

https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/healthprotection/errb/pdf/progresstowardrebuildinghaitishealthsystem.pdf

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Violence is traumatizing Haitian kids. Now the country's - TheGrio

(9 days ago) WEBAfrican Diaspora. Violence is traumatizing Haitian kids. Now the country’s breaking a taboo on mental health services. In a bid to help save Haiti’s youngest …

https://thegrio.com/2024/05/13/violence-is-traumatizing-haitian-kids-now-the-countrys-breaking-a-taboo-on-mental-health-services/

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Health Status of Haitian-Americans - Stanford Medicine

(5 days ago) WEBprivate issues, issues of sexual health being an example 5,6. It is a commonly health belief in Haitians that illness is due to an imbalance with nature and can be

https://med.stanford.edu/content/dam/sm/schoolhealtheval/documents/FPierre_HaitianAmericans.pdf

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Haitians break taboo on mental health services after violence

(Just Now) WEB“We are witnessing a lot of mental health issues,” Maes said. “This violence is traumatizing.” Louis said her 10-year-old son would daily cry “You’re going to die!” as …

https://apnews.com/article/haiti-gang-violence-trauma-mental-health-eae1e0bc7c0143a1f58da7d58ff29eed

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Violence Is Traumatizing Haitian Kids. Now the Country's Breaking …

(1 days ago) WEBRamon Espinosa. FILE - Girls holding hands are led past a burnt car blocking the street as they evacuate the Delmas 22 neighborhood to escape gang violence in …

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-05-13/violence-is-traumatizing-haitian-kids-now-the-countrys-breaking-a-taboo-on-mental-health-services

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Violence is traumatizing Haitian kids. Now the country's - WLRN

(8 days ago) WEBThe gang violence in Haiti’s capital has left more than 2,500 people dead or wounded in the first three months of the year. Some 900 schools have closed across …

https://www.wlrn.org/americas/2024-05-16/violence-is-traumatizing-haitian-kids-now-the-countrys-breaking-a-taboo-on-mental-health-services

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Cyberattack disrupts operations at major US health care network

(6 days ago) WEBA cyberattack has disrupted “clinical operations” at major health care nonprofit Ascension, forcing it to take steps to minimize any impact to patient care, an …

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/08/tech/cyberattack-disrupts-healthcare-network/index.html

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Haiti's chaos puts both patients and health-care workers at risk

(3 days ago) WEBGang leaders are holding press conferences even as their members hold much of the capital of Port-au-Prince hostage, terrorize the country at large and kidnap …

https://health.wusf.usf.edu/npr-health/2024-03-15/haitis-chaos-puts-both-patients-and-health-care-workers-at-risk

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N.J.’s health system is failing underserved groups. How can the …

(4 days ago) WEBBlacks had the highest rate of such deaths — 141 per 100,000. Whites were at 67, Hispanics at 55 and Asians at 37. “It’s a common story,” said David Radley, a …

https://www.nj.com/healthfit/2021/11/njs-health-system-is-failing-underserved-groups-how-can-the-care-divide-be-bridged.html

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Do Not Use Cue Health’s COVID-19 Tests

(3 days ago) WEBThe FDA issues alert about risk of false results with Cue Health’s COVID-19 Tests due to modifications made without FDA authorization that have a strong likelihood …

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/do-not-use-cue-healths-covid-19-tests-due-risk-false-results-fda-safety-communication

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DOJ announces task force on health care monopolies and collusion

(6 days ago) WEBThe task force will consider widespread competition concerns shared by patients, health care professionals, businesses and entrepreneurs, including issues …

https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2024-05-10-doj-announces-task-force-health-care-monopolies-and-collusion

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Ascension Health, largest Catholic hospital chain in the US, hit by

(2 days ago) WEBAscension Health, largest Catholic hospital chain in the U.S., hit by cyberattack, disrupting patient care The attack follows another one that has caused a …

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/ascension-health-cyberattack-disrupts-patient-care-what-happened-rcna151462

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When There’s No Safe Place for Your Adult Son or Daughter

(7 days ago) WEBSometimes insurance wouldn’t cover long-term care, or the availability of care was illusory: On paper, for example, there might be 10 psychiatrists in a given state …

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/opinion/adult-children-mental-illness.html

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Health Services - Bergen County New Jersey

(4 days ago) WEBBergen County Department of Health Services One Bergen County Plaza • 4th Floor • Hackensack, NJ 07601-7076. Phone: 201-634-2600 • Fax: 201-336-6086

https://www.co.bergen.nj.us/departments-and-services/about-health-services

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How 360,000 Haitians Wound Up Living in Empty Lots and …

(2 days ago) WEBThe Haitian government agency whose job it is to help refugees normally focuses on natural disasters, not a disaster caused by widespread gang violence. Image …

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/world/americas/haiti-gangs-refugees-crisis.html

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For Maui fire survivors, health conditions are worsening - The

(4 days ago) WEBMonths after Maui fires, residents report troubling health problems. More than 4 in 10 people reported challenges in accessing medical care, compared with …

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/05/15/maui-fire-health-impact-lahaina/

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They survived Maui's deadly wildfires. Now many are suffering …

(8 days ago) WEBAmong those issues are complications with residents' cardiovascular health. "Exposure to smoke, ash, and debris is strongly associated with worse physical health …

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maui-wildfires-hawaii-victims-health-food-survey/

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Naresh G Rana MD Primary Care Physician Bloomfield, NJ

(9 days ago) WEBDr. Naresh Rana is a board certified primary care doctor practicing in Bloomfield, New Jersey. Dr. Rana has been serving the Essex County area for the past 20 years and is …

https://www.nareshranamd.com/

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Steward Health Files Chapter 11 After Medical Properties Deal

(2 days ago) WEBSteward Health Care System LLC filed for bankruptcy early Monday after a period of mounting financial challenges and government scrutiny over the impact of its …

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-06/steward-health-files-chapter-11-after-medical-properties-deal

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Bergen County Housing, Health, & Human Services Center

(Just Now) WEBThe mission of the Bergen County Housing, Health and Human Services Center is to end homelessness by providing a full continuum of housing services including homelessness …

https://habcnj.org/housing_programs/bergen_county_housing_health_and_human_services_center/index.php

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California Moves Faster to Transform Mental Health System for All, …

(9 days ago) WEBDETAILS: Over the last 6 months, California’s Health and Human Services Agency (CalHHS) traveled the state performing “site visits” with each of the eight …

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/05/14/california-moves-faster-to-transform-mental-health-system-for-all-with-urgent-focus-on-most-seriously-ill-homeless/

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