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Why does the Puerto Rican island of Vieques not have a hospital 6 …

(4 days ago) WEBHer question gets at a larger aspect of Puerto Rico’s health care system. Puerto Rico had a universal health care system called Sistema Arbona from the 1950s …

https://centerforhealthjournalism.org/our-work/insights/why-does-puerto-rican-island-vieques-not-have-hospital-6-years-after-hurricane

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Puerto Rico's health system after Hurricane Maria - The …

(3 days ago) WEBHurricane Maria has put pressure on Puerto Rico's health-care system, but a looming budgetary shortfall could be even more devastating. Ted Alcorn reports. A fortnight after Hurricane Maria made …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)32591-6/fulltext

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Colonial Neglect and the Right to Health in Puerto Rico After …

(2 days ago) WEBThe humanitarian crisis revealed as a result of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico demonstrates a long history of US colonial neglect and human rights violations. …

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305814

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Health Centers in Puerto Rico: Operational Status after …

(1 days ago) WEBIn 2016, health centers in Puerto Rico served 352,172 patients, over one in ten residents, and provided more than 1.5 million patient visits, including over 84,000 oral health visits and over

https://www.kff.org/medicaid/fact-sheet/health-centers-in-puerto-rico-operational-status-after-hurricane-maria/

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Puerto Rico's crumbling health care system contributes to high …

(4 days ago) WEBPuerto Rico’s death rate last year surpassed that of any year in the past two decades, including when Hurricane Maria destroyed parts of the island in 2017. …

https://www.kclu.org/2023-12-13/puerto-ricos-crumbling-health-care-system-contributes-to-high-death-rate

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A Healthcare System in Crisis: How Public Health Emergencies in …

(5 days ago) WEBA Healthcare System in Crisis: How Public Health Emergencies in Puerto Rico Exposed a Systemic Disaster. November 02. 1:30-2:30pm 708 Broadway, Room …

https://publichealth.nyu.edu/events-news/events/2022/11/02/healthcare-system-crisis-how-public-health-emergencies-puerto-rico

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Puerto Rico’s Attempts to Address a Public Health Crisis …

(9 days ago) WEBthe larger purpose of the Medicare Advantage Act and the relevant public health crisis in Puerto Rico’s resulting from the mass exodus of physicians. 21David Begnaud, …

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/AB1D98A585229633D7BDC2961087567E/S0098858823000102a.pdf/puerto-ricos-attempts-to-address-a-public-health-crisis-struck-down-by-the-united-states-court-of-appeals-for-the-first-circuit.pdf

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Puerto Rico Health System Resilience After Hurricane Maria

(5 days ago) WEBCOVID epidemic is taxing the capacity of the Puerto Rico health system, which could increase the likelihood of another health system collapse should another …

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2020/09/23/2020.09.20.20198531.full.pdf

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Puerto Rico Health System Resilience After Hurricane Maria

(7 days ago) WEBSchool of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico Medical Science Campus, Rio Piedras, PR, United States COVID epidemic is taxing the capacity of the Puerto Rico health …

https://doaj.org/article/b4a3bf2721494da0915815b859ef23f6

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(PDF) The impact of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico’s health …

(7 days ago) WEBBackground After its landfall in Puerto Rico in 2017, Hurricane Maria caused the longest blackout in United States history, producing cascading effects on a health care system …

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356104513_The_impact_of_Hurricane_Maria_on_Puerto_Rico's_health_system_post-disaster_perceptions_and_experiences_of_health_care_providers_and_administrators

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Health and Social Services in Puerto Rico Before and After …

(3 days ago) WEBShort abstract. This overview of health and social services in Puerto Rico includes 31 courses of action to better recover from health crises, build a more resilient …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8383835/

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Exodus of Doctors: A Problem That Defies Simple Solutions

(9 days ago) WEBThe emigration of doctors out of Puerto Rico has raised alarms in some sectors. Many link it to the multiple problems that patients currently face with the island’s …

https://grupocne.org/2023/03/05/exodus-of-doctors-a-problem-that-defies-simple-solutions/

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The Puerto Rico Healthcare Crisis Annals of the American …

(7 days ago) WEBWithout intervention, it has been estimated that Puerto Rico’s healthcare system will suffer the immediate loss of half a billion dollars, hospitals will lose $150 …

https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201508-531PS

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A public health crisis in Puerto Rico, post-Hurricane Maria

(5 days ago) WEBThe even darker side of Hurricane Maria. On Wednesday, Sept. 20, Hurricane Maria made landfall in the early morning hours near Yabucoa Harbor in …

https://www.thechicagoschool.edu/insight/health-care/public-health-hurricane-maria-puerto-rico/

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Puerto Rico’s Health Care Crisis: Where Empire and Climate …

(Just Now) WEBOn Wednesday, September 20, 2017, after an already uncharacteristically volatile hurricane season, Hurricane María made landfall on the island of Borikén …

https://in-training.org/puerto-ricos-healthcare-crisis-where-empire-and-climate-change-collide-18540

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Medicaid Reform and Puerto Rico: A Fiscal and Public Health …

(9 days ago) WEBDavid Begnaud, Health care system “collapse”: Doctors, experts sound alarm over Puerto Rico’s medical system, CBS News, Sept. 21, 2022. Patients wait six …

https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2022/12/15/medicaid-reform-and-puerto-rico-a-fiscal-and-public-health-disaster-that-needs-federal-intervention/

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Puerto Rico’s Looming 2019 Medicaid Fiscal Cliff - CNE

(5 days ago) WEBIn the past, temporary lifelines to Puerto Rico’s Medicaid program have prevented a total system collapse, but by the same token, these short-term extensions of supplemental …

https://grupocne.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019.09-Medicaid-Report-Executive-Summary-1.pdf

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Haiti healthcare near collapse, says UN, as state of emergency …

(Just Now) WEBThe U.N. humanitarian affairs agency warned that the country's health system was "nearing collapse," with shortages of staff, equipment, beds, drugs and …

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/haiti-extends-state-emergency-pm-absent-2024-03-07/

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Puerto Rico's Exodus of Doctors Adds Health Care Strain to Dire

(1 days ago) WEBA U.S. Department of Health study on Puerto Rico's health system, released this year, reported the median wait time between arrival and admission to a …

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/puerto-rico-s-exodus-doctors-adds-health-care-strain-dire-n783776

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A Multi-Level Health Systems Study of Collapse and Resilience in …

(5 days ago) WEBA Multi-Level Health Systems Study of Collapse and Resilience in Puerto Ricos's Response to Hurricane Maria Grant. A Multi-Level Health Systems Study of …

https://discovery.fiu.edu/display/grant-AWD000000009248

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Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’

(Just Now) WEBThe Puerto Rico work is one of just a handful of studies assessing this vital issue, but those that do exist are deeply worrying. Flying insect numbers in Germany’s …

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/insect-collapse-we-are-destroying-our-life-support-systems

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The collapse of Puerto Rico's healthcare system - The Rio Times

(9 days ago) WEBThe precarious healthcare system in Puerto Rico concerns and worries the medical profession and patients (Photo internet reproduction) “When we talk about a …

https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/mercosur/the-collapse-of-puerto-ricos-healthcare-system/

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The giant solar storm is having measurable effects on Earth : NPR

(8 days ago) WEBThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says there have been measurable effects and impacts from the biggest geomagnetic storm in decades.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/10/1250515730/solar-storm-geomagnetic-g4

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National HIV Surveillance System (NHSS) HIV Data CDC

(4 days ago) WEBHow NHSS data are collected. Surveillance programs of local, territorial, and state health departments gather information on demographic characteristics (sex …

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv-data/nhss/index.html

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