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A | Sophie 编译 新西兰最富裕社区的居民正准备与水力公司Watercare展开一场斗争，因为他们可能暂时失去宝贵的公园土地，当地人称这可能会对他们的心理健康产生不利影响。 HOUSTON — Tonjanic Hill was overjoyed in 2017 when she learned she was 14 weeks pregnant. Despite a history of uterine fibroids, she never lost faith that she would someday have a child. But, just five weeks after confirming her pregnancy, and the day after a gender-reveal party where she announced she was having a girl, she seemed unable to stop urinating. She didn’t realize her amniotic fluid was leaking. Then came the excruciating pain. “I ended up going to the emergency room,” said Hill, now 35. “That’s where I had the most traumatic, horrible experience ever.” An ultrasound showed she had lost 90% of her amniotic fluid. Yet, over the angry protestations of her nurse, Hill said, the attending doctor insisted Hill be discharged and see her own OB-GYN the next day. The doctor brushed off her concerns, she said. The next morning, her OB-GYN’s office rushed her back to the hospital. But she lost her baby, Tabitha Winnie Denkins. “This is a public health crisis as it relates to Black moms and babies that is completely preventable,” said Barbie Robinson, who took over as executive director of Harris County Public Health in March 2021. “When you look at the breakdown demographically — who’s disproportionately impacted by the lack of access — we have a situation where we can expect these horrible outcomes.” In fact, Harris County ranks third, behind only Chicago’s Cook County and Detroit’s Wayne County, in what are known as excess Black infant deaths, according to the federal Health Resources and Services Administration. Those three counties, which also are among the nation’s most populated counties, account for 7% of all Black births in the country and 9% of excess Black infant deaths, said Ashley Hirai, a senior scientist at HRSA. That means the counties have the largest number of Black births but also more deaths that would not occur if Black babies had the same chance of reaching their 1st birthdays as white infants. No known genetic reasons exist for Black infants to die at higher rates than white infants. Such deaths are often called “deaths of disparity” because they are likely attributable to systemic racial disparities. Regardless of economic status or educational attainment, the stress from experiencing persistent systemic racism leads to adverse health consequences for Black women and their babies, according to a study published in the journal Women’s Health Issues. These miscarriages and deaths can occur even in communities that otherwise appear to have vast health resources. In Harris County, for example, home to two public hospitals and the Texas Medical Center — the largest medical complex in the world, with more than 54 medical-related institutions and 21 hospitals — mortality rates were 11.1 per 1,000 births for Black infants from 2014 through 2019, according to the March of Dimes, compared with 4.7 for white infants. The abundance of providers in Harris County hasn’t reassured pregnant Black patients that they can find care that is timely, appropriate or culturally competent — care that acknowledges a person’s heritage, beliefs and values during treatment. Regardless of income or insurance status, studies show, medical providers often dismiss Black women’s questions and concerns, minimize their physical complaints and fail to offer appropriate care. By contrast, a study of 1.8 million hospital births spanning 23 years in Florida found that the gap in mortality rates between Black and white newborns was halved for Black babies when Black physicians cared for them. In 2013, Houstonian Kay Matthews was running a successful catering business when she lost the daughter she’d named Troya eight months and three weeks into pregnancy. Matthews hadn’t felt well — she’d been sluggish and tired — for several days, but her doctor told her not to worry. Not long afterward, she woke up realizing something was terribly wrong. She passed out after calling 911. When she woke up, she was in the emergency room. None of the medical staffers would talk to her, she said. She had no idea what was happening, no one was answering her questions, and she started having a panic attack. “It kind of felt like I was watching myself lose everything,” she recalled. She said the nurse seemed annoyed with her questions and demeanor and gave her a sedative. “When I woke up, I did not have a baby.” Matthews recalled one staffer insinuating that she and her partner couldn’t afford to pay the bill, even though she was a financially stable business owner, and he had a well-paying job as a truck driver. She said hospital staffers showed minimal compassion after she lost Troya. They seemed to dismiss her grief, she said. It was the first time she could remember feeling as if she was treated callously because she is Black. “There was no respect at all, like zero respect or compassion,” said Matthews, who has since founded the Shades of Blue Project, a Houston nonprofit focused on improving maternal mental health, primarily for Black patients. To help combat these high mortality rates in Harris County, Robinson created a maternal child and health office and launched a home-visit pilot program to connect prenatal and postpartum patients with resources such as housing assistance, medical care and social services. Limited access to healthy food and recreational activities are barriers to healthy pregnancy outcomes. Studies have also shown a connection between evictions and infant mortality. For Hill, not having insurance was also likely a factor. While pregnant, Hill said, she had had just a single visit at a community health center before her miscarriage. She was working multiple jobs as a college student and did not have employer-provided medical coverage. She was not yet approved for Medicaid, the state-federal program for people with low incomes or disabilities. Texas has the nation’s highest uninsured rate, with nearly 5 million Texans — or 20% of those younger than 65 — lacking coverage, said Anne Dunkelberg, a senior fellow with Every Texan, a nonprofit research and advocacy institute focused on equity in public policy. While non-Hispanic Black Texans have a slightly better rate — 17% — than that overall state level, it’s still higher than the 12% rate for non-Hispanic white Texans, according to census data. Health experts fear that many more people are losing insurance coverage as COVID-19 pandemic protections end for Medicaid. Without full coverage, those who are pregnant may avoid seeking care, meaning they skip being seen in the critical first trimester, said Fatimah Lalani, medical director at Houston’s Hope Clinic. Texas had the lowest percentage of mothers receiving early prenatal care in the nation in 2020, according to the state’s 2021 Healthy Texas Mothers and Babies Databook, and non-Hispanic Black moms and babies were less likely to receive first-trimester care than other racial and ethnic groups. Babies born without prenatal care were three times as likely to have a low birth weight and five times as likely to die as those whose mothers had care. Hill’s twins, though premature, are now preschoolers. “I believe God — and the high-risk doctor — saved my twins,” she says.(Brandon Thibodeaux/KFF Health News) If Hill’s miscarriage reflects how the system failed her, the birth of her twins two years later demonstrates how appropriate support has the potential to change outcomes. With Medicaid coverage from the beginning of her second pregnancy, Hill saw a high-risk pregnancy specialist. Diagnosed early with what’s called an incompetent cervix, Hill was consistently seen, monitored and treated. She also was put on bed rest for her entire pregnancy. She had an emergency cesarean section at 34 weeks, and both babies spent two weeks in neonatal intensive care. Today, her premature twins are 3 years old. “I believe God — and the high-risk doctor — saved my twins,” she said. This article was produced by KFF Health News, a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF. It has been published with permission. 。
这场对峙与一项耗资12亿纽币的项目有关，该项目旨在防止暴雨后污水涌入奥克兰的海滩。
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但是Herne Bay的居民——这里的平均房价在300万纽币以上——对该项目要求将Salisbury Reserve的一部分在未来两年内由Watercare公司使用感到不满。
虽然当地人支持改善海滩水质的隧道项目，但他们不想失去大部分公园，如果Watercare获得了批准，会将其用作卸货场。
B | 关于Salisbury Reserve的听证会将于下个月开始。一些居民对失去大部分公园提交了反对意见书。 一个听证会小组将决定从今年5月开始，到2026年左右，Watercare是否能够获得它想要的公园租约。
C | 当地人通过Herne Bay居民协会表示，这将只留下Salisbury Reserve的上部区域，也就是游乐场所在的地方，供公众使用。 他们对此表示反对。 居民们抱怨说，该公园对项目来说并不重要，为期两年的关闭会造成相当大的噪音和滋扰，可能会影响人们的心理健康。 Watercare希望获得Salisbury Reserve和Point Erin Park的大部分土地，以便建设Central Interceptor和Herne Bay下水道升级项目。他们希望临时占用Shelly Beach Rd 94号的公园土地和Salisbury St 19号的保留地土地。 Watercare首席基础设施官Steve Webster承认他们提议使用Salisbury Reserve的“一部分”，并告诉英文《先驱报》，这是必要的。 Webster说，这片土地被选为建设新的重要污水处理基础设施的场地。 该场地以及Shelly Beach Rd上的另一个存放区域是根据一系列标准进行综合评估后选定的。他说，这些卸货区将支持Herne Bay下水道升级项目的实施，该项目是西部水质改进计划的一部分。 该项目对于减少流入当地水域和Waitematā海港的溢流至关重要，有助于改善供游泳和休闲的海滩水质。 Webster说：“Herne Bay下水道的新管道将连接到Watercare价值数十亿纽币的Central Interceptor隧道（下图），该隧道正在建设中，通过Point Erin，可将废水直接输送到Māngere进行处理和安全处置。” 他表示，目前有600多名工作人员在全市16个地点从事Central Interceptor项目工作，其中包括7个公园，对社区的影响很小。 Herne Bay的工程，包括施工堆放区，已向公众发出通知。 Webster表示，资源许可听证会将于2月20日和21日举行。
D | 2018年，英文《先驱报》报道说，当地人正就海滩上的污水泄漏与市政官员和政客们展开“糟糕”的争吵。 对于解决污水溢出流入Waitematā港的最佳方法，人们展开了激烈的辩论。
E | 在离海港稍远的地方，Pt Chevalier海滩的部分地区在涨潮时出现了厕纸。市议会将海滩上的垃圾归咎于雨水进入并淹没了污水系统。 英文《先驱报》2017年的一项调查发现，几乎每次下雨时，废水都会从市区的41个点流出。报告发现，每年有100万立方米的废水和稀释的污水——相当于400个奥林匹克游泳池的水量——涌入港口。 人们担心，这种在发达国家中异常频繁的溢流，将随着成千上万的新住宅在内城区拔地而起而变得更糟，新西兰的雨水/污水管道已经使用了一个多世纪。 相关阅读： 一场大雨过后，奥克兰这些海滩又不适合游泳了！ 由于废水溢出，奥克兰多个热门海滩禁止游泳 重大污水泄漏事件发生数周后，奥克兰这些海滩终于重开了！ 海滩废水溢出，千万别在奥克兰这些地方游泳！ 奥克兰“天坑”：预计至少需要3天修复管道，25个海滩关闭 又现“天坑”，污水溢出，奥克兰多个海滩处于“黑色警报”下 注：本文为编译/原创，欢迎转发分享；但严禁复制等未经授权的非法使用。违反上述声明者，本网将追究其相关法律责任。使用授权请联系[email protected]。 chineseherald.co.nz All Rights Reserved 版权所有 (责编：Sophie) 相关内容 耸人听闻！6人在奥克兰著名海滩徒步时神秘失踪，更多女子像猎物一样被追逐恐吓 疫情通报：过去一周新西兰新增5757例 突发！James Shaw将辞去绿党联合党魁一职 奥克兰昂贵自行车被盗，提供监控照片及GPS数据后警方拒绝调查 奥克兰中区夜间发生电动滑板车骑行事故，一男子死亡 夏天就这么过去了？1月底天气多变，2月初气温将陡降 24小时内5人死于道路交通事故，警方发出紧急安全警告 抗议者涌向奥克兰这一海军基地，对政府向红海派遣国防人员表示不满。
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