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Hospital trauma units under threat
by Melanie Gosling Radical changes to the treatment of emergency patients in the Western Cape will damage the province’s world-class trauma centres and compromise patient care, doctors say. The provincial Health Department’s plan is designed to merge the overloaded casualty sections at tertiary hospitals with…
Author: Cape Times
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Troubles Linked to Mental Illness
People affected by traumatic episodes in the Northern Ireland Troubles are showing signs of mental illness decades after the events, a new study has revealed. A helicopter flies over the British army watchtower in Crossmaglen which became a symbol of the Troubles. Photograph: John Giles/PA…
Author: Irish Times
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'Pretty Much a Catastrophe': Anna Deavere Smith and the Disaster of the School-to-Prison Pipeline
MSNBC video: Focusing on the school-to-prison pipeline By Emily Wilson Photo Credit: iofoto / Shutterstock.com In the last 20 years, there has been a shocking rise in the number of schools that embrace zero tolerance policies that regularly leave students suspended, expelled or arrested for the…
Author: AlterNet
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Curing Violence Starts at the Community Level
Photo: Flickr via MediaPlanet By Emily Morrow David* was a model eighth-grader. He had exemplary grades, a near perfect attendance record and scored well on all his state exams. Then, he made his first suicide threat. He was hospitalized for a day or so, but…
Author: Mediaplanet
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Safer Streets in Viet Nam: A Public Health Turnaround?
When I made my first visit to Viet Nam last month, to visit Atlantic’s office and staff there and travel to rural health clinics, hospitals, schools and NGOs that we support, I couldn’t help but notice that the streets of Ha Noi were teeming with…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Caring for Complex Patients is No Easy Task
By Jeffrey Brenner, M.D. Jeffrey Brenner, M.D., Executive Director of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers. Photo: McKnight’s Long-Term Care News I’m a family physician working in Camden, NJ — one of America’s poorest cities. For the last 13 years, I’ve been building a citywide…
Author: McKnight's Long-Term Care News
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Reforming School Discipline Policies to Improve Children's Success
By Kavitha Mediratta Head of Racial Equity Programmes, The Atlantic Philanthropies In recent months, we have seen an outpouring of protest by communities of color against aggressive policing and the trauma and violence these tactics engender. A similar phenomenon is occurring in our schools, where…
Author: Grantmakers In Health
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In South Africa, rape is linked to manhood
Original Source by CELEAN JACOBSON Dumisani Rebombo had not been circumcised, did house chores considered girls’ work and was sick of being taunted for not being a man. So he took the only other course considered “manly” in his rural South African village: He raped…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online
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Audacious Philanthropy
Image: Christopher Corr / Getty Images By Susan Wolf Ditkoff and Abe Grindle Private philanthropists have helped propel some of the most important social-impact success stories of the past century: Virtually eradicating polio globally. Providing free and reduced-price lunches for all needy schoolchildren in the United…
Author: Harvard Business Review
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De Blasio Administration Announces New School Climate Initiatives to Make NYC Schools Safer, Fairer and More Transparent
Proposed updates to the discipline code include an end to suspensions for students in grades K-2 For the first time, NYPD releases expanded school safety data on school-based arrests, summonses and handcuffing New scanning policy establishes official process based on data with NYPD oversight for…
Author: The City of New York