United Nations Foundation
Washington, DC:
Empowering Rural Women and Girls Through Data
Rural women and girls – and what is needed to ensure their progress – are the focus of this year’s UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). One area that must get attention is data.
What we do: Ending violence against women
Violence against women and girls is a grave violation of human rights. Its impact ranges from immediate to long-term multiple physical, sexual and mental consequences for women and girls, including death.
How Men Can Use Pregnancy To Threaten Women
Women may not know that sometimes pregnancy can be abusive.
How femtech is putting women's healthcare front and centre
For a long time, femtech has been considered a niche, but a growing number of tech companies are hoping to change that narrative.
Why rural hospitals are closing
Rural hospitals are in financial distress, forcing many to shut their doors. These factors remain a challenge for rural and critical access hospitals across the country. And it ultimately limits access to care for vulnerable rural populations....
The Decline of the Rural American Hospital and How to Reverse It
Telemedicine may not sound like a dramatic innovation, but it is.
These medical students signed up for rural medicine. What happened to them?
Medical students everywhere should be exposed to rural options.
Good Intentions Won’t Help Rural America. Learn What We Need. (Opinion)
Don’t tell us to use telemedicine where broadband doesn’t work or encourage us to use bicycles in our mountainous region. And we have small budgets that make metrics a problem.
Are You an Empowered Patient?
The more involved you are in your own healthcare, the more satisfying and efficient your care can be.
Telemedicine: Future of Rural Healthcare?
How the Anchal Project is empowering abused women
The Anchal Project and dyeScape empowers women who've experienced abuse by teaching them to create dyed textiles
Is ‘Telemedicine’ the Future for Rural LGBTQ Patients?
Telemedicine offers an equitable alternative to navigating the healthcare landscape.
When a rural hospital shuts down
From Axios: When rural hospitals close, their communities often lose their biggest employers and closest access to health care, struggling to stay afloat in the aftermath. And that’s happenin…
Why improving rural health is important
Giving out-of-the-way communities the health care access they need
How Telehealth is Affecting Rural Hospitals
Rural hospitals face multiple challenges providing care to patients. By turning to telehealth, healthcare organizations can help mitigate these challenges.
Rural and Independent Hospitals: Going It Alone or Teaming Up?
Independent hospitals must face hard choices to prosper in an era of consolidation.
Enemy Within Intensifying Rural Clinician Shortages?
Clinicians may be leaving rural underserved areas because of targeted harassment and discrimination from colleagues, according to a small interview-based study.
