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Youth with complex health needs (CHNs; e.g., requiring daily assistance or equipment for care) and their parents face heightened vulnerabilities during natural disasters, potentially leading to poorer mental health outcomes compared to those without CHNs.

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Background: Home health agencies (HHAs) provide vital community-based services for older adults. Under-resourced HHAs that are disconnected from broader community emergency planning efforts may struggle to maintain services during emergencies. As climate-related disasters become more prevalent, HHA services are increasingly at risk, and policymakers have focused on the services they provide to older adults.

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Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented challenge to health systems worldwide and had a severe impact on tuberculosis (TB) case notifications and service delivery. India, Indonesia and Nigeria are high TB-burden countries where the majority of initial care-seeking happens in the private health sector. The objectives of this study were to (1) explore policy-makers' perspectives on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on private sector TB service delivery in India, Indonesia and Nigeria and (2) identify cross-cutting insights for pandemic preparedness with respect to TB service delivery.

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Frontline Clinic Administrator Perspectives on Extreme Weather Events, Clinic Operations, and Climate Resilience.

J Ambul Care Manage

January 2025

Author Affiliations: Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts (Drs Wiskel and Dresser); Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Boston, Massachusetts (Drs Wiskel and Dresser); Americares, Stamford, Connecticut (Mr Matthews-Trigg, Ms Stevens, and Dr Miles); and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (Drs Wiskel, Dresser, and Bernstein).

Climate-sensitive extreme weather events are increasingly impacting frontline clinic operations. We conducted a national, cross-sectional survey of 284 self-identified administrators and other staff at frontline clinics determining their attitudes toward climate change and the impacts, resilience, and preparedness of clinics for extreme weather events. Most respondents (80.

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