Health Care in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands: A Six-Month Check-Up After the Storms

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. 03/19/2018 This one-hour, 44-minute public briefing, held six months after Hurricanes Irma and Maria battered Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, discusses how the U.S. territories continue to struggle with crippled infrastructure, faltering economies, and an exodus of their populations to the continental U.S. It examines the status of the recovery on the islands, with a focus on how their health care systems are doing and the likely impact of new Medicaid and disaster relief funding approved by Congress earlier this year. (Video or Multimedia)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - March 22, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news