The News Review:
- New management at Community Health Partners includes Covey
- Poor Neighborhoods Create Health ‘Double Jeopardy’ for Minority Kids
- Gebrselassie puts health before glory
- Zimbabwe: Govt Buys 200 Vehicles for Health Staff
New management at Community Health Partners includes Covey
SmallTownPapers News Service – Mar 11, 2008
A shared management model was implemented and the public health services will be directed by the team of Jackie Covey, Deb Vander Plas and Kim Westerholm. Covey is the Fiscal Director, Westerholm is the Children’s and Family Health Director and Vander Plas is the Community Health Services Director. Covey and her husband, Mike, live in Hull with their three children. She is the daughter of Art and Margaret Van Otterloo and a 1992 graduate of Western Christian High School. She has been with Community Health Partners and CHEARS for 10 years… “There’s a lot of variety and always something new,” she said. Community Health Partners remains committed to promoting and protecting the health of all residents of Sioux County through advocacy, education, and prevention. The former director of Community Health Partners, Nancy Dykstra, is now the Executive Director of Greater Sioux Community Health Center, which will provide accessible, affordable and culturally appropriate primary health care to residents of the greater Sioux County area.
Poor Neighborhoods Create Health ‘Double Jeopardy’ for Minority Kids
Newswise – Newswise (press release) – Mar 11, 2008
?The nature of poverty for blacks and Latinos, generally, is qualitatively different and of a far harsher, unrelenting variety than the poverty experienced by the typical white person,? said Susan Eaton, research director in the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School. Eaton was not involved in the segregation study. Acevedo-Garcia and colleagues are proposing a health-policy approach that might boost child health by expanding established housing-mobility and neighborhood-improvement programs. ?Some of these programs already exist, but we need to give the programs a health angle, and we need to advocate for their expansion,? Acevedo-Garcia said. She said academic research and training has become so highly specialized that professionals sometimes miss the connections outside of their own sphere of expertise that could improve health. ?People working in housing policy, don?t know about health policy; people working in health policy don?t know about education policy,? she said. Health Affairs, published by Project HOPE, is a respected journal of health policy.
Gebrselassie puts health before glory
Times Online – Mar 11, 2008
Whatever theassurances, they were not enough for Gebrselassie, arguably the greatestdistance runner of all time. This is a man with nothing to prove and noreason to back out of an event for which he would be an automatic favourite. As a child, he used to run six miles to school from the family farm nearAsela and by the age of 16 was running against adults. Accolades and moneyhave rolled in since then: six World Championship and Olympic gold medalsand enough prize-money and endorsements for him to start a business with 400employees and build two schools at home in Ethopia. Gebrselassie lives in a rarified atmosphere of celebrity at home in Ethopia,where he has built a palatial, marble-floored villa, high in the hills wherethere is clear air above the capital, Addis Ababa, for his family. He is afigurehead for his nation, providing employment, setting up numerouscharities and inspiring hundreds of youngsters to run.
Zimbabwe: Govt Buys 200 Vehicles for Health Staff
AllAfrica.com – Mar 11, 2008
Some of the vehicles were assembled locally while others were imported. GA_googleFillSlot(“AllAfrica_Story_Inset”);In an interview, Health and Child Welfare Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa said his ministry in conjunction with the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, has moved to procure 600 vehicles for health personnel, which are coming in phases. "We identified beneficiaries to the first phase through their institutions and compiled a list of vehicles they wanted, which we then presented to the RBZ with avalue of up to US$20 000 per car," Dr Parirenyatwa said. He said health personnel then provided a list of vehicles to their choices, among them, double cabs and Mazda 3s. "The negotiations with RBZ was in response to grievances by health workers that they needed vehicles and decent accommodation – a situation that precipitated most industrial actions staged by health workers," said Dr Parirenyatwa. He said Government was looking into accommodation for health personnel.
