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Introducing CNIB’s Rural Transit Toolkit: Built by Rural Communities, for Rural Communities
By: Patti Ellis Transportation presents significant challenges for people living with sight loss in Canadian cities. Navigating public transit, heavy traffic, defective audible pedestrian signals and broken sidewalks can be frustrating, but it remains possible. For people who live in a rural setting, it is an entirely different story. I live in a rural community comprised of three villages, surrounded by farms and properties, strung together by mostly gravel roads lined by deep ditches.
Childhood Obesity: Communication Strategies for Healthcare Practitioners
By Patti L. Ellis, RN, CPHRM, Patient Safety Risk Manager II, The Doctors Company Childhood obesity has become a health crisis in the U.S. across all socioeconomic levels. CDC statistics from 2017 through 2020 indicate the following for children and adolescents ages two through 19: Obesity prevalence was 19.7 percent and affected about 14.7 million children and adolescents.
Childhood obesity in the U.S.: a growing health crisis affecting millions and demanding action from pediatric health care practitioners
Childhood obesity has become a health crisis in the U.S. across all socioeconomic levels. CDC statistics from 2017 through 2020 indicate the following for children and adolescents ages two through 19: Obesity prevalence was 19.7 percent and affected about 14.7 million children and adolescents. Obesity prevalence was 12.7 percent among 2- to 5-year-olds, 20.7 percent among 6- to 11-year-olds, and 22.2 percent among 12- to 19-year-olds.
the threat of button batteries to children's health
According to a study published in Pediatrics, it is estimated that between 2010 and 2019, more than 70,000 emergency department (ED) visits in the United States were related to battery ingestion, mouth exposure, and ear or nasal insertion among children under 18 years old. ED visits occurred more frequently among children ages five years and younger.
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