Articles: Healthcare
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| Summer 2009 | Healthcare |
Mobilizing Against Fake Drugs
Texting emerges as a source of confirmation for drug legitimacy |
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| Spring 2009 | Healthcare |
Clear Blood
By 1998, thousands of people had contracted HIV and hepatitis C from Canada’s tainted blood supply. To restore the supply and the public’s trust, the federal, provincial, and territorial governments of Canada created a new organization, Canadian Blood Services. Despite the public health tragedy that it inherited, Canadian Blood Services rebuilt Canadians’ faith in the nation’s blood supply by infusing transparency into its structure, culture, and operations. —By Moe Abecassis, David Benjamin, & Lorna Tessier |
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| Spring 2009 | Healthcare | What’s Next: Texting It In | |
| Spring 2009 | Healthcare • Social Entrepreneurship | What’s Next: The New Frontier | |
| Winter 2009 | Healthcare |
What’s Next: Paying for Safe Sex
Paying people to practice safe sex. |
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| Fall 2008 | Healthcare • Social Entrepreneurship |
What’s Next: LivingGoods Calling
LivingGoods sends its version of Avon ladies—white-uniformed “health promoters"—knocking on doors in hundreds of Ugandan communities. |
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| Fall 2008 | Human Rights • Healthcare |
Opening the Asylum Doors
THE INSANITY OFFENSE: How America’s Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens by E. Fuller Torrey |
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| Summer 2008 | Education • Healthcare • Nonprofit Management |
Tackling HIV
Grassroot Soccer uses the world’s most popular sport to educate kids in sub-Saharan Africa about HIV and its prevention. |
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| Summer 2008 | Healthcare • Government |
Government Cares the Most
Public nursing homes outshine nonprofits and for-profits. |
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| Spring 2008 | Healthcare • Nonprofit Management |
Marching to a Different Mission
When the Salk polio vaccine proved to be effective in 1955, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis had to choose whether to close up shop or to pursue a new agenda. The foundation first broadened its mission, but lost donations, volunteers, and public support. After honing its mission to birth defects, however, it recovered. Here’s how the organization that eventually became the March of Dimes planned – and survived – its transitions. |
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| Spring 2008 | Economic Development • Healthcare • Government |
Poor in Body
Toxic environments knock impoverished kids’ systems out of kilter. |
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| Winter 2008 | Arts, Culture, and Religion • Healthcare • Government |
Smart Soaps
The Population Media Center mixes science with soap operas to protect public health. |
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| Winter 2008 | Healthcare • Government |
Review: Beyond the White House
Jimmy Carter details his ongoing efforts to make a difference as John Q. Citizen. |
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| Fall 2007 | Healthcare • Social Entrepreneurship |
Micro-franchise Against Malaria [Free!]
How for-profit clinics are healing and enriching the rural poor in Kenya. |
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| Summer 2007 | Healthcare • Nonprofit Management |
Unselling Meth [Free!]
The Montana Meth Project’s graphic ads saturate TV, radio, billboards, and newspapers to portray the reality of methamphetamine use, in all its grit. Scabs and body sores are just the beginning. So far, the shock factor is working. |
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