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  • He Almost Died From Hypertension; Now He Helps Others Live Free Of The Disease

    December 20, 2021 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Oyo State

    Rays of Hope Support Initiative or ROHSI conducts outreach in rural parts of Nigeria to educate people about hypertension and diabetes. A group of volunteers, including medical professionals, provides free screenings, medical advice, and free medications to people with hypertension and diabetes at their biannual community outreaches.

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  • Electric school bus helps Latina moms combat air pollution

    October 26, 2021 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    There are about 480,000 school buses in the country, less than one percent of them are electric. Replacing diesel school buses with electric ones would reduce greenhouse emissions by 5.3 million tons a year, it would also be better for students lungs. More than 4 in 10 people in the country live in neighborhoods with unhealthy air. In Arizona, a group of mom's organized and were able to convince the school board to purchase and electric bus. Then, they garnered votes to help pass a bond to purchase the bus.

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  • The Healing Force of Family

    May 24, 2021 |

    Stanford Social Innovation Review |

    Podcast |

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    Response Location: India

    Through the use of video storytelling classes, two graduate students developed a pilot project that is helping to "teach medical caregiving skills to families of cardiac patients" in India. The project proved so helpful during the initial stages that a local hospital adopted the training program and it is now being implemented across other regions as well.

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  • Meet the people changing the world of organ transplants

    January 23, 2021 |

    The Times |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Cambridge

    Doctors at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge began piloting the use of new technology in 2015 via a machine called an organ care system (OCS) that allows doctors to restore life to an organ and keep it viable for donation. This technology has now helped doctors increase heart transplantation procedures by 40 percent.

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  • In Safe Hands: First complex heart surgery at Reddington Hospital a huge success despite COVID-19

    August 26, 2020 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Victoria Island, Lagos State

    A partnership between a Nigerian hospital and a cardiac interventionist group is helping to "bridge the gap in availability of quality cardiac and critical care services" for patients who are in need of care. Although the system was first tested unexpectedly during the coronavirus pandemic, it has shown early success in building and training local specialists to complete cardiac surgeries.

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  • The day Bluetooth brought a cardiologist to every village in Cameroon

    August 19, 2020 |

    Geneva Solutions |

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    Response Location: Cameroon

    A severe cardiologist shortage, especially in rural areas, led to the creation of the Cardiopad, an electrocardiogram device that allows local doctors to easily perform examinations and use Bluetooth to transfer them to cell phones to send to a cardiologist based in another hospital. The device is used in about 100 Cameroonian hospitals and 150 are used abroad in Comoros, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, and Nepal, among other countries. Since 2016, 9,800 remote examinations have been carried out with the Cardiopad. The telemedicine capabilities fight medical deserts by bringing cardiologists to remote villages.

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  • StrongPeople classes strengthen bodies and friendships in rural Montana

    June 06, 2020 |

    Choteau Acantha |

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    Response Location: United States, Bozeman, Montana

    A group exercise class known as StrongPeople is helping senior citizens in Montana find community and improve their health through progressive strength training. Participants have reported positive results, while studies have also shown that those able to meet the expectations of Health and Human Services Physical Activity Guidelines doubled after people completed the program.

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  • Meet The Womanikin, The Breasted Vest Working To Close The CPR Gender Gap

    December 07, 2019 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    For a variety of reasons, women are less likely than men to receive CPR by a stranger, but an attachment for CPR dummies that gives the maniken silicone breasts is helping to break barriers. This phenomenon is seen worldwide, so this Womanikin training tool is being piloted in several countries with the hope of decreasing the stigma around offering help to a woman in cardiac arrest.

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  • In Search of the Lost Pulse

    December 07, 2019 |

    DoR |

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    Response Location: Romania, Sibiu, Transylvania

    A private healthcare facility in Romania is helping to bring specialty surgeries to the region's children by arranging for doctors from other parts of the nation and world to convene on a rotating, but regular, basis. The surgeons, many of whom specialize in pediatric corrective surgery for congenital heart defects, perform hundreds of surgeries per year financed by the Polisano Foundation.

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  • Changing Behavior: Economic Incentives

    October 23, 2019 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Mexico

    Cities across the world are learning that a tax on sugary drinks can help to shift purchasing habits and reduce the risks of health problems such as diabetes, heart attacks, and stroke. As a Boulder council member explained, modifying the behavior of consumers is possible when you "tax the behavior you don’t want and use the money to encourage behavior you do."

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