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Mobilizing the Community to Eliminate Preventable Blindness in Children
Recognizing myopia as a public health problem, the Chinese Government launched a comprehensive national plan for the prevention and control of myopia. Village doctors like Pan Taoling have a large role to play in achieving the government’s goals.
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Caring for Those Who Care for Us: Supporting Frontline Health Workers in Kenya Through Johnson & Johnson’s Lion Secondment Program
COVID-19 has resulted in a “shadow” mental health pandemic felt by people worldwide, but especially health workers who deliver care.
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“I am an Advocate for the Patient and a Voice for the Voiceless”: Meet a Health Worker Empowered to Serve Her Community Through a Unique Model of Care
Sister Nomthandazo Lerumo is the first nurse within the Unjani Clinic network to achieve ownership of a Johnson & Johnson-funded clinic—and one of 92 nurses to date equipped through the network to own and lead the effort in transforming South Africa’s healthcare system.
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Community Health Workers are Improving the Survival and Well-Being of Mothers and Newborns in Guatemala
Photo story contributed by Elizabeth Bocaletti, Carolyn Boyce, Glendy De Leon, Rudo Kashiri, Ana Maria Us and Goldy Mazia for Save the Children. All photos courtesy of Save the Children.
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This Nurse Leader in Liberia Is Making Sure Mothers and Babies Get the Healthcare They Need
As Liberia country director for Last Mile Health, Marion Subah is working with the Liberia Ministry of Health to scale and sustain the country’s first national community health worker program.
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A Day in the Life of a Nurse in East Africa
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A Day in the Life of a Nurse in East Africa
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Leading a Community Health Team Supporting Syrian Refugees in Jordan
The project, in partnership with the International Rescue Committee, aims to integrate community health programming into the national health structure in Jordan to respond to the refugee crisis as well as to strengthen national health systems and services.
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Meet Teresa Harrison, a Community Mental Health Navigator Who is Changing How Mental Healthcare is Being Delivered in Grimsby, UK
A new model in community-based mental health support pioneered by Mental Health UK is improving quality of life for patients and helping ease over-burdened primary care practices.
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Meet Three Innovative Nurse Practitioners Who Are Using a Dental Clinic to Make Primary Care Accessible to More Patients
Whitney Nash, Michelle Baxter and Beverly Williams Coleman—alums of the Duke-Johnson & Johnson Nurse Leadership Program—discuss how they set up a primary care clinic in the University of Louisville School of Dentistry
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