health equity

Explore "health equity" with insightful episodes like "Syphilis Cases Are Rising In Babies. Illinois Has A Potential Solution", "Doctors Have a New Plan for Fat Kids", "Meet One Engineer Fixing A Racially Biased Medical Device", "Why Abortion Access Is Important For A Healthy Community" and "Fixing a broken system - Mahmee CEO Melissa Hanna on patient-centric maternal care | E1464" from podcasts like ""Short Wave", "Maintenance Phase", "Short Wave", "Short Wave" and "This Week in Startups"" and more!

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Syphilis Cases Are Rising In Babies. Illinois Has A Potential Solution

The number of newborns born with syphilis – a serious sexually transmitted infection – has skyrocketed 755% from 2012 to 2021. These babies have congenital syphilis, which is when the infection is passed from mother to baby during pregnancy. It can have dire consequences if left untreated.

The surge has left medical professionals and public health leaders scrambling for solutions to stop the spread. Today on the show, Chicago based journalist Indira Khera talks to Emily Kwong about what's behind this mysterious public health crisis – and brings us inside Illinois' Perinatal Syphilis Warmline.

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en-usMarch 20, 2024

Doctors Have a New Plan for Fat Kids

Last month the American Academy of Pediatrics released a new set of guidelines for "childhood obesity." We have some comments.

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Meet One Engineer Fixing A Racially Biased Medical Device

During the COVID-19 pandemic, one measurement became more important than almost any other: blood oxygen saturation. It was the one concrete number that doctors could use to judge how severe a case of COVID-19 was and know whether to admit people into the hospital and provide them with supplemental oxygen. But pulse oximeters, the device most commonly used to measure blood oxygen levels, don't work as well for patients of color. Kimani Toussaint, a physicist at Brown University, is leading a group trying to make a better, more equitable alternative a reality.

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Short Wave

en-usFebruary 13, 2023

Why Abortion Access Is Important For A Healthy Community

Abortion access has been leading political news in recent weeks. But what happens when we look at abortion as a health care tool that betters public health? Today, Emily talks to Liza Fuentes, a Senior Research Scientist at the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that focuses on sexual and reproductive health. Fuentes says abortion access is an important part of health care for a community and losing access can exacerbate income and health inequalities.

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en-usMay 24, 2022

Fixing a broken system - Mahmee CEO Melissa Hanna on patient-centric maternal care | E1464

Molly Wood sits down with Melissa Hanna, CEO and Co-Founder of Mahmee, a care network for parents (01:44), they discuss the impetus for Melissa launching the company (12:34), the challenges of bringing the product to market (22:08), how she built the network and more (37:29)!

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(01:44) Molly Wood sits down with Melissa Hanna, CEO and CoFounder of Mahmee, a care network for parents
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(12:34) Melissa on how the pandemic helped expose the need for a care service like Mahmee
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(37:29) How Mahmee built its network

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This Week in Startups

en-usMay 19, 2022

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The Supreme Court Aims to Overturn Roe v. Wade | Bill Gates

The Supreme Court prepares to overturn Roe v. Wade, Senator Amy Klobuchar talks about the threat to abortion rights, and Bill Gates discusses his book "How to Prevent the Next Pandemic."

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Ep. 908 - Screaming Mob Protests My Speech But Can't Explain Why

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, protesters made a scene at my Georgia Tech speech last night, though further investigation indicates that they didn’t know why they were there or what they were upset about. Also, the White House debriefed Tik Tok stars on the Ukraine situation,and now those influencers are dutifully repeating the government propaganda assigned to them. Plus, some parents are upset about the new Pixar film, claiming it’s not appropriate for children. And what exactly is “public health equity”? It’s more than a job’s program for bureaucrats, though it’s mostly that.

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enMarch 15, 2022

The Ripple Effects Of A Huge Drop In Cancer Screenings

At the height of the pandemic, routine cancer screenings declined by 90 percent. Screenings are resuming and doctors are diagnosing later-stage cancers — cancers that might have been caught earlier. NPR science correspondent Yuki Noguchi of talks about whom this affects most, and about the ripple effects that missing cancer screening may have for years to come.

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en-usJuly 13, 2021

The CDC Doesn't Know Enough About Coronavirus In Tribal Nations

A recent CDC report estimates Native Americans and Alaskan Natives are 3.5 times more likely to get COVID-19 than white people, and those under 18 are more likely to test positive.

This report is the first time the federal government has released hard numbers on the coronavirus in tribal nations, but it is most notable for what it does not say about how the virus is affecting Native Americans and Alaskan Natives. And some scientists believe that the CDC's current numbers are an underestimate.

Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, reporter and deputy managing editor of Indian Country Today, explains why the CDC data is so limited in scope — and her efforts to bring more data transparency to the table.

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Short Wave

en-usSeptember 28, 2020