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Jhpiego: 40 years of saving women's lives

Jhpiego: 40 years of saving women’s lives

When a woman dies, the likelihood of her children dying within two years of her death will increase 10-fold. And women around the world are dying at an unacceptable rate: a woman dies every two minutes to pregnancy-related causes alone.

Jhpiego is an international, non-profit health organization that aims to improve these statistics by designing and implementing low-cost, innovative solutions, including initiatives to improve reproductive health. Tonight on Healthstyles, producer Diana Mason, PhD, RN, interviews Leslie Mancuso, PhD, RN, the President and CEO of Jhpiego, about the work of this organization and its impact on the health of families and communities. So tune in tonight at 11:00 PM to listen to Healthstyles on WBAI, 99.5 FM (www.wbai.org) or click here to listen to the program at any time:

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Healthstyles is sponsored by the Center for Health, Media and Policy at Hunter College, City University of New York.

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This is reposted from HEALTHpopuli, the blog of Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, a health economist and management consultant. Her company, THINK-Health is a strategic health consultancy that serves clients at the intersection of health and technology in the U.S. and Europe.

…and I’m not talking about [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3PXucLotXk] here (or [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAjIy3uPmv4]).

Most people (75%) still view phone calls as the communication mode that best bolsters their relationships compared with texting (66%), picture messaging (35%), sharing on social networks (31%), emailing (25%), , and video chatting (9%). U.S. Cellular, the mobile phone company, surveyed 527 customers in April 2013 to learn about how wireless communication can bring “Better Moments” to peoples’ lives. In particular, people say that mobile phones help them:

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This is reposted from HEALTHpopuli, the blog of Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, a health economist and management consultant. Her company, THINK-Health is a strategic health consultancy that serves clients at the intersection of health and technology in the U.S. and Europe.

…and I’m not talking about [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3PXucLotXk] here (or [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAjIy3uPmv4]).

Most people (75%) still view phone calls as the communication mode that best bolsters their relationships compared with texting (66%), picture messaging (35%), sharing on social networks (31%), emailing (25%), , and video chatting (9%). U.S. Cellular, the mobile phone company, surveyed 527 customers in April 2013 to learn about how wireless communication can bring “Better Moments” to peoples’ lives. In particular, people say that mobile phones help them:

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Jack Collins, Academic Earth, follows HealthCetera. He contacted us after reading Dr. May May Leung‘s post East Meets West: Childhood Obesity in China and the U.S. to recommend a video created by Academic Earth for one of their free online courses, The Economic Cost of Obesity.

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According to Dr. James Hill, director of the Center of Human Nutrition at Colorado Health Sciences University, “Genes don’t make us obese. They allow us to be obese.” If our genes aren’t to blame for this rise in obesity, what is? Recent research suggests that socioeconomic class can impact our bodies as much as genetics, and may be a more accurate predictor for a variety of future health issues, including obesity.”

View it here.

References/data can be found by clicking on transcript tab located beneath the video screen.

Here’s Academic Earth’s Mission Statement:

“Academic Earth believes that everyone has the right to a world-class education. Recognizing the existing barriers in academia, we continue our efforts to curate an unparalleled collection of free online courses from the world’s top universities. Moving forward, we honor the egalitarian spirit of Academic Earth’s founders as we develop a platform to facilitate the global sharing of ideas, both inside and outside the classroom.”

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