#Guam’s Mayor of Inalåhan wants residents to know its Community Health Centers anre open to ALL residents regardless of income, accept all insurance types. These centers are closer, and don’t require driving north to the island’s larger hospitals.
People often skip care altogether, including prenatal care, because access to the Northern Medical Centers is so difficult.
A Community Health Center caring for more patients increases access to grants, which could allow them to reopen their dentistry & pharmacy offerings. This would further help with health equity for folks in the Inalåhan area.
‘ “It’s been a very long-standing stigma that public health [centers] is only for the poor, and that’s not the case anymore,” [Mayor] Chargualaf said. ’
There’s a town hall Tuesday night & mini health fair for more information:
#InternationalHealth #Inalåhan #Micronesia #Medicare #Medicaid
Seasonal flu vaccines need to be updated each year because the virus changes so frequently. But the U.S. hasn't contributed its information on what's spreading there since January, a World Health Organization official says.
This post looks at federal government databases with key health data that went offline on Jan. 31, 2025, including several related to HIV, some of which had returned by Feb. 2, 2025. It briefly describing the affected databases, which include widely used, large-scale national health surveys, indices, and data dashboards, that inform research, policy making, and media coverage about health care and public health.
Madhukar Pai writing in the BMJ calls for genuine global health equity and solidarity to tackle the current mpox 1b outbreak.
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q1803
#PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #mpox #HealthEquity #MadhukarPai #AfricaMatters #InfectiousDisease #DiseaseControl #Vaccination #GlobalSouth #VirusOutbreak #mpoxOutbreak #mpox1b #WorldHealthOrganization #PHEIC #ViralPandemic #PandemicMitigations #PublicHealthEmergency #InternationalHealth #AfricaCDC #VaccineEquity #Inequity #HealthCrisis #BMJ
I've been frustrated with some of the numbers reported when discussing #LassaFever this hopefully quantifies some of the uncertainty around numbers of reported cases.
Would love to explore further if of interest to those who hold the data. @NCDCgov @Chikwe_I
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RT @RSTMH
New in our journal #InternationalHealth: David Simons (@David_Simons_UK) highlights current uncertainty and systemic underreporting of the morbidity and mortality burden …
https://twitter.com/RSTMH/status/1597590039768498177
“New in our journal #InternationalHealth: David Simons (@David_Simons_UK) highlights current uncertainty and systemic underreporting of the morbidity and mortality burden of #Lassa fever in eight West African countries. #OpenAccess (#OA) paper👉https://t.co/Bwjw1CSYFE”