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High-Speed Broadband Brings Healthcare to Rural Residents
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January 8, 2018January 8, 2018Health, Local

High-Speed Broadband Brings Healthcare to Rural Residents

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Rural areas across the United States are increasingly offering telehealth services to improve access to quality healthcare for residents who are unable to visit a hospital due to cost or accessibility. In St. Robert, a town of 5,000 in southern Missouri, the telehealth network has been connecting patients to healthcare providers since the 1990s. Improved...

Volunteer Tourism: What’s Wrong with It and How It Can Be Changed
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January 5, 2018June 21, 2019Local

Volunteer Tourism: What’s Wrong with It and How It Can Be Changed

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Volunteer tourism, or voluntourism, is an emerging trend of travel linked to “doing good”. Yet these efforts to help people and the environment have come under heavy criticism – I believe for good reason. Voluntourists’ ability to change systems, alleviate poverty or provide support for vulnerable children is limited. They simply don’t have the skills....