{"id":382,"date":"2022-04-18T15:41:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T13:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/?p=382"},"modified":"2023-01-15T20:36:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T18:36:40","slug":"film-health-mediators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/?p=382&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"FILM: HEALTH MEDIATORS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do you do when a whole community struggles to access healthcare? In the 1990s the rates of tuberculosis infection were a hundred times higher amongst the Bulgarian Roma than in Western Europe. And many were dying of totally preventable diseases. The solution was to train up&nbsp;<strong>health mediators<\/strong>; members of the Roma community who act as a bridge between their neighbourhood, and doctors and the health system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So twenty years on how successful have they been? TB is still a big problem, and child mortality is still three times higher than the rest of Bulgaria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This film was made\u00a0by \u041cY CENTURY <a href=\"https:\/\/mycentury.tv\/\">https:\/\/mycentury.tv<\/a>\u00a0within the project &#8222;E-lessons from history for a post-COVID-19 Bulgaria&#8220; supported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activecitizensfund.bg\/public\/portfolios\/view.cfm?id=1\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.activecitizensfund.bg\/public\/portfolios\/view.cfm?id=1\">Active Citizens Fund Bulgaria<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Health Mediators - \u0417\u0434\u0440\u0430\u0432\u043d\u0438 \u043c\u0435\u0434\u0438\u0430\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438 for MyCentury.tv\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/594172045?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do when a whole community struggles to access healthcare? In the 1990s the rates of tuberculosis infection were a hundred times higher amongst the Bulgarian Roma than in Western Europe. And many were dying of totally preventable diseases. The solution was to train up\u00a0health mediators; members of the Roma community who act as a bridge between their neighbourhood, and doctors and the health system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[399,246],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-lab","tag-stories","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2879,"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/2879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romapolicylab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}