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Celebrating the Life of Carl Taylor

Posted on Mon, 02/08/2010 – 19:44

Carl TaylorCarl TaylorCarl E. Taylor 1916-2010   Carl E. Taylor, MD, DrPH, founder of the academic discipline of international health, a man of spiritual conviction, who dedicated his life to the well-being of the world's marginalized people, passed away February 4, 2010 from prostate cancer. He was 93. The reach of his life was extraordinary, personally working in over 70 and having students from more than 100 countries.

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Future Generations Peru Concludes a Four-Year Child Survival Project in Cusco

Posted on Fri, 12/18/2009 – 23:35

Lima, Peru:  A four-year child survival project of Future Generations Peru, funded by the Child Survival and Health Grants Program of the United States Agency for International Development, achieved significant improvements in 21 key maternal and child health indictors. The number of maternal deaths declined by 75% in the project area, and chronic child malnutrition declined by 9%.

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Future Generations Professor Receives Global Child Survival Award

Posted on Mon, 10/12/2009 – 23:07
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The CORE Group awarded its 10th Dory Storms Child Survival Recognition Award to Dr. Henry Perry, who served for six years as an endowed faculty member of the Future Generations Graduate School.

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Summary of Impact

 

With an approach that engages community and government partnerships, Future Generations raises the capacity of people to create locally-appropriate solutions that last.

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Health Care for the Unreached in The Andes Highlands

Cusco Child

The Cusco Region has among the highest rates of maternal-child mortality and chronic child malnutrition in Peru. Although the government has established primary health care facilities in these highlands, the indigenous communities do not use them due to distance and poverty combined with language and cultural barriers.

Future Generations makes 28 primary health care facilities more effective by transforming them through community participation and stronger linkages with local government.

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Women's Empowerment

Community meeting

Across five districts in Arunachal Pradesh, more than 150 women's groups mobilize social change. They:

  • Improve health in the home
  • Change practices such as child marriage, alcholism, and violence against women
  • Promote kitchen gardens
  •  Increase income through micro-credit programs

They even sing their own songs about how their lives have changed with the help of Future Generations Arunachal.

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Women Improving Health

Afghan Community Health Worker with Baby

The Need: Death during childbirth is an every day occurrence in Afghanistan, which has among the highest rates of maternal and child mortality in the world. Many deaths can be prevented by changes in lifestyle and basic health care in the home.

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A Review of the Evidence: How Effective is Community-based Primary Health Care in Improving Child Health?

Authors: 
Henry Perry and Paul Freeman, Study Directors
Authors: 
Sundeep Gupta and Bahie Mary Rassekh, Study Coordinators
Publisher: 
International Health Section, American Public Health Association, Community-based Primary Health Working Group
Date: 
July, 2009
Link: 
http://www.apha.org/membergroups/sections/aphasections/intlhealth

Excitement is rapidly growing concerning the potential for community-based primary health care (CBPHC) to accelerate progress in reducing the tragedy of millions of children dying world-wide each year from readily preventable or treatable conditions. Consequently, a review of the evidence concerning the effectiveness of community-based approaches is timely.

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Future Generations Approach Reduces Under-Five Child Mortality in Afghanistan by 46 Percent

Posted on Wed, 09/09/2009 – 19:56

In remote Afghan valleys, a women’s empowerment project reduced under-five child mortality by 46 percent in two years. From 2005-2006, for each village a Community Health Worker (CHW) was trained using five new interventions of community-based child health care. Unexpectedly the outside funding was diverted, but the CHWs continued the program themselves.

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