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Growing Feminization of Migration in Cuba Poses New Challenges
By Luis BrizuelaHAVANA, Aug 25 2023 (IPS) Emigrating from Cuba was an agonizing decision for Ana Iraida. She left behind family and friends; in her backpack she carried many hopes, but also the fear of facing dangers on the journey to the United States.
“My salary and that of my second job, as an editor, were insufficient. I wanted to prosper and help my parents. Nor did I want to have a child in a country where it is an ordeal to buy everything from disposable diapers to soap, not to mention food,” the 33-year-old philologist who, like the others interviewed for this story, asked to withhold her last name, tol...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Luis Brizuela Tags: Development & Aid Economy & Trade Editors' Choice Featured Financial Crisis Gender Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Latin America & the Caribbean Migration & Refugees Population Poverty & SDGs Regional Cat Source Type: news
Driven by the War, Russian Women Arrive en Masse to Give Birth in Argentina
Two of the six Russian women who were detained by the Argentine immigration authorities when they reached the country on Feb. 8 and 9 sleep in the Buenos Aires airport. A federal judge ruled that they were placed in a situation of vulnerability and ordered that they be allowed to enter the country. CREDIT: TV CaptureBy Daniel GutmanBUENOS AIRES , Feb 16 2023 (IPS) They began to arrive en masse in Argentina in the second half of 2022, a few months after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. They are pregnant Russian women who land in the capital to give birth, with the hope of gaining an Argentine passport, given the fact that s...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 16, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Daniel Gutman Tags: Development & Aid Editors' Choice Europe Featured Gender Headlines Health Human Rights Human Trafficking Latin America & the Caribbean Migration & Refugees Regional Categories TerraViva United Nations Women's Health Argentina Source Type: news
Innovation: It's in Our DNA
Phys Ther. 2022 Sep 4;102(9):pzac100. doi: 10.1093/ptj/pzac100.ABSTRACTColleen M. Kigin, PT, DPT, MS, MPA, FAPTA, the 52nd Mary McMillan Lecturer, is a consultant focused on innovation. She is a visiting clinical professor at the University of Colorado physical therapy program, University of Colorado School of Medicine, and an adjunct associate professor at the MGH Institute of Health Professions (MGH IHP). From 1998-2014, she held the positions of chief of staff and program manager for the Center of Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology, a 12-institution consortium based in Boston, Massachusetts, developing in...
Source: Health Physics - September 29, 2022 Category: Physics Authors: Colleen M Kigin Source Type: research
Roe reactions: Faculty share insights on the ruling and the future of abortion rights
The Supreme Court ’s June 25 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization also overturned Roe v. Wade, putting an end to nearly five decades of constitutional protection for abortion in the U.S.That decision had an immediate and sweeping effect across the country, with 26 states banning or severely restricting abortions or preparing to do so. Meanwhile, millions, including those who no longer have access to the procedure, have been left pondering the future of reproductive rights in America and wondering whether similar constitutional protections may be in jeopardy.Over the past week, faculty members and scho...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - June 30, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
SHM 2022 Awards of Excellence and Junior Investigator Award
This study was the largest prospective investigation of pediatric pneumonia hospitalizations ever conducted in the U.S., and fundamentally altered how we think about pneumonia etiology in the era of highly effective pneumococcal vaccines. Currently, his research team is focused on the conduct of two National Institutes of Health-funded pragmatic randomized trials testing the effectiveness of predictive analytics and clinical decision support to optimize antibiotic utilization and inform disease-severity assessments in childhood pneumonia. In total, Dr. Williams has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in top-t...
Source: The Hospitalist - June 1, 2022 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Ronda Whitaker Tags: Awards Career Source Type: research
What Operations Should a Modern Rural Surgeon Do? State-of-the-Art Lecture
Am Surg. 2022 Apr 21:31348221086799. doi: 10.1177/00031348221086799. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTRural patients have fewer complications and deaths, shorter hospital stay, and less resource utilization than their urban counterparts. They also tend to have fewer chronic illnesses; this reflects a system working as intended, with high-risk patients transferred to better-resourced institutions, while others receive surgical care closer to home. Deciding which operations a modern rural surgeon should-and shouldn't-perform starts with the question "Who decides?" Government, insurers, hospitals, surgeons, and patients are all ...
Source: The American Surgeon - April 22, 2022 Category: Surgery Authors: Sharmila Dissanaike Source Type: research
“I need you to forgive yourself”: Shame in Medicine and Medical Education
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, guests Will Bynum, MD, Lara Varpio, PhD, and Ashley Adams, MD, join Toni Gallo and former Academic Medicine editor-in-chief David Sklar, MD, to discuss shame in medicine and medical education, what it is and how it can be studied, and their research and other work in this area.
This episode was originally released in August 2019 and is available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere podcasts are available.
A transcript of this episode is below.
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Bynum WE IV, Adams AV, Edelman CE, Uijtdehaage S, Arti...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - February 21, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript medical education medical students premedical education research shame undergraduate advising Source Type: blogs
One swallow does not a summer make: Twenty years of challenges and achievements of family medicine in Mozambique
This study aimed to describe strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and threats of the current scenario that can influence the development of FM and primary health care (PHC) in Mozambique. Case study of a series of virtual world-café meetings using the World Health Organization's Operational Framework for primary health care as a theoretical model. There is a young generation of Family Physicians (FPs) eager to improve PHC in Mozambique - a result of the reactivation of the Maputo Residency Programme and the creation of the Mozambican College of FP in 2010. The current Ministry of Health has taken this agenda forward, invi...
Source: Primary Care - February 11, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Yolanda Sabino Palmira A Francisco Ofelia da Concei ção Rambique Leyani A Chavez Noya Armando J Bucuane Adelson G Jantsch Source Type: research
Pediatrician provides a voice for youth traumatized by family separation
Growing up in Brentwood,Dr. Elizabeth Barnert was raised to be acutely aware of two versions of Los Angeles — one of privilege and one of social injustice.Her psychiatrist father instilled in his daughter a love of science and big-picture thinking. Her mother, who fled Castro ’s Cuba alone at 15, worked as a social worker counseling troubled high-school students, many of them first-generation Americans who butted heads with their immigrant parents over issues like cultural identity and gangs.“My father took me to the library every Saturday and taught me the importance of life-long learning,” said Barnert, now an as...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - March 29, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Medicare for All and Industry Consolidation
This article is adapted from a forthcoming book.
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 13, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Medicare Ken Terry Medicare For All Source Type: blogs
Can Bad Men Change? What It ’s Like Inside Sex Offender Therapy
The men file in, a few wearing pressed button-down shirts, others jeans caked in mud from work on a construction site. They meet in the living room of an old taupe bungalow on a leafy street in a small Southern city.
Someone has shoved a workout bike into the corner to make room for a circle of overstuffed chairs dug up at the local Goodwill. The men jockey for a coveted recliner and settle in. They are complaining about co-workers and debating the relative merits of various trucks when a faint beeping interrupts the conversation. One man picks up a throw pillow and tries to muffle the sound of the battery running low on h...
Source: TIME: Health - May 10, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Eliana Dockterman Tags: Uncategorized nation sex offender therapy Source Type: news
Huge Fiscal Benefits of Including Legal Immigrant Dreamers in the DREAM Act
While Congress is rightly concerned about providing a pathway to citizenship for immigrant Dreamers without legal status, thousands of legal immigrants who are in the same position are being left behind. This decision to exclude legal immigrant Dreamers is not just inequitable. It is costly.H-1B high-skilled foreign workers can bring their spouses and minor children with them to the United States on H-4 visas. The H-4 is a temporary visa that is valid for as long as the H-1B is. Once the child turns 21, however, the H-4 is canceled. Most employers also sponsor their H-1B employees for permanent residency (a “green card...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 23, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
