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Deep South Health: Madison County Bureau: May 2009

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Deep South Health: Madison County Bureau. The Tales of a Newbie Journalist in Madison County, Northeast Georgia. May 5, 2009. Health Inequities, Health Disparities, Social Determinants of Health. I really like the new language and people’s conscious effort to move towards more inclusive terms that still denote that we have an issue with the way class, gender, race, and so forth factor into people’s health status. It can only help, right? Dangerous, Mentally Ill. One particular misconception reinforced by...

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Deep South Health: Madison County Bureau: 10 Minutes on Rural Health

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Deep South Health: Madison County Bureau. The Tales of a Newbie Journalist in Madison County, Northeast Georgia. May 5, 2009. 10 Minutes on Rural Health. Rural areas account for only 10 percent of the physicians in America. Some organizations predict that there will be a 100,000 doctor shortage by the year 2025 ( AAMC. One last thing I that struck me as important, was that rural is a broad term. Yet, large rural, small rural, and isolated rural all fall in this category, but each have unique needs. I am ...

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Deep South Health: Madison County Bureau: January 2009

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Deep South Health: Madison County Bureau. The Tales of a Newbie Journalist in Madison County, Northeast Georgia. January 27, 2009. Those of us who have driven through towns in the northern part of the United States may be struck by Danielsville’s northernesque feel. You enter the town through a roundabout, reminiscent of the many rotaries I learned to drive growing up in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. In the center of the roundabout sits the historic red brick courthouse, built in 1901. For Madison Cou...

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Hart County Health: What I Have Learned

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Wednesday, May 6, 2009. What I Have Learned. Hart County, Ga. is a very interesting town. What I have learned in trying to report on the health issues that surround the county is that location is everything. To really understand how someone lives their day to day lives one needs to be there for a full day. Now that the summer is coming and someone has expressed interest in this conundrum that exists between the health department and MedLink I will probably be spending some time their this summer. Medicar...

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Deep South Health: Madison County Bureau: March 2009

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Deep South Health: Madison County Bureau. The Tales of a Newbie Journalist in Madison County, Northeast Georgia. March 30, 2009. Up the Mountain: Part III, The Expert That Came Through. So here I am back at the bottom. 8220;Yes, that would be the executive director,” the lady on the phone says. Hmmm, I think, do executive directors really talk to you? But I ask for her email address anyway, because that’s what you do, right? 8221; Nothing else, not even a signature. 8221; says the caller. What? 8220;I do...

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Deep South Health: Madison County Bureau: Word Bank

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Deep South Health: Madison County Bureau. The Tales of a Newbie Journalist in Madison County, Northeast Georgia. May 5, 2009. Health Inequities, Health Disparities, Social Determinants of Health. I really like the new language and people’s conscious effort to move towards more inclusive terms that still denote that we have an issue with the way class, gender, race, and so forth factor into people’s health status. It can only help, right? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Deep South Health Homepage.

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Deep South Health: Madison County Bureau: Dealing with the Dead

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Deep South Health: Madison County Bureau. The Tales of a Newbie Journalist in Madison County, Northeast Georgia. May 5, 2009. Dealing with the Dead. 8220;When you’re paying attention to the dead, you’re actually attending to the living,” said Onora Lien of King County Healthcare Coalition at a recent Association of Health Care Journalists conference. Lien urged journalists to be sensitive to the complexities of fatality management. She reminded us throughout her presentation that the way death is man...

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Deep South Health: Madison County Bureau: April 2009

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Deep South Health: Madison County Bureau. The Tales of a Newbie Journalist in Madison County, Northeast Georgia. April 5, 2009. I want to tell the stories that matter. The stories that others aren’t always telling. The stories that create conversation. The stories that force people to act. So, I’m always grateful for those who hear the word journalist and go into full-on raving, lecture mode. And I’m saddened by those who hear it and run from me, as if journalists are the new-age lepers. It's hard to bel...

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Deep South Health: Madison County Bureau: Dangerous, Mentally Ill

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Deep South Health: Madison County Bureau. The Tales of a Newbie Journalist in Madison County, Northeast Georgia. May 5, 2009. Dangerous, Mentally Ill. We pay attention to the portrayal of black people in the media. We look at gender-biased language. Now we need to add mental health to that list. But all too often in newspapers, violence co-occurs with the topic of mental illness. It’s only the rare, dramatized, sensationalized incidents that make the front page. Edit wire stories for coverage issues.