Pharmacy on a Bicycle : Innovative Solutions for Global Health and Poverty download book
Pharmacy on a Bicycle : Innovative Solutions for Global Health and Poverty download book
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Author: Mark J. Epstein
Page Count: 240 pages
Published Date: 01 Jun 2013
Publisher: BERRETT-KOEHLER
Publication Country: San Francisco, United States
Language: English
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781609947897
File size: 27 Mb
File Name: Pharmacy.on.a.Bicycle.Innovative.Solutions.for.Global.Health.and.Poverty.pdf
Download Link: Pharmacy on a Bicycle Innovative Solutions for Global Health and Poverty
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Every four minutes, over 50 children under the age of five die. In the same four minutes, 2 mothers lose their lives in childbirth. Every year, malaria kills nearly 1. 2 million people, despite the fact that it can be prevented with a mosquito net and treated for less than $1. 50. Sadly, this list goes on and on. Millions are dying from diseases that we can easily and inexpensively prevent, diagnose, and treat. Why? Because even though we know exactly what people need, we just can't get it to them. They are dying not because we can't solve a medical problem but because we can't solve a logistics problem. In this profoundly important book, Eric G. Bing and Marc J. Epstein lay out a solution: a new kind of bottom-up health care that is delivered at the source. We need microclinics, micropharmacies, and microentrepreneurs located in the remote, hard-to-reach communities they serve. By building a new model that scales down to train and incentivize all kinds of health-care providers in their own villages and towns, we can create an army of on-site professionals who can prevent tragedy at a fraction of the cost of top-down bureaucratic programs. Bing and Epstein have seen the model work, and they provide example after example of the extraordinary results it has achieved in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This is a book about taking health care the last mile sometimes literally to prevent widespread, unnecessary, and easily avoided death and suffering. Pharmacy on a Bicycle shows how the same forces of innovation and entrepreneurship that work in first-world business cultures can be unleashed to save the lives of millions.
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Pharmacy on a Bicycle : Innovative Solutions for Global Health and Poverty .Mark J. Epstein
Author: Mark J. Epstein
Page Count: 240 pages
Published Date: 01 Jun 2013
Publisher: BERRETT-KOEHLER
Publication Country: San Francisco, United States
Language: English
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781609947897
File size: 27 Mb
File Name: Pharmacy.on.a.Bicycle.Innovative.Solutions.for.Global.Health.and.Poverty.pdf
Download Link: Pharmacy on a Bicycle Innovative Solutions for Global Health and Poverty
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Every four minutes, over 50 children under the age of five die. In the same four minutes, 2 mothers lose their lives in childbirth. Every year, malaria kills nearly 1. 2 million people, despite the fact that it can be prevented with a mosquito net and treated for less than $1. 50. Sadly, this list goes on and on. Millions are dying from diseases that we can easily and inexpensively prevent, diagnose, and treat. Why? Because even though we know exactly what people need, we just can't get it to them. They are dying not because we can't solve a medical problem but because we can't solve a logistics problem. In this profoundly important book, Eric G. Bing and Marc J. Epstein lay out a solution: a new kind of bottom-up health care that is delivered at the source. We need microclinics, micropharmacies, and microentrepreneurs located in the remote, hard-to-reach communities they serve. By building a new model that scales down to train and incentivize all kinds of health-care providers in their own villages and towns, we can create an army of on-site professionals who can prevent tragedy at a fraction of the cost of top-down bureaucratic programs. Bing and Epstein have seen the model work, and they provide example after example of the extraordinary results it has achieved in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This is a book about taking health care the last mile sometimes literally to prevent widespread, unnecessary, and easily avoided death and suffering. Pharmacy on a Bicycle shows how the same forces of innovation and entrepreneurship that work in first-world business cultures can be unleashed to save the lives of millions.
Read online Pharmacy on a Bicycle : Innovative Solutions for Global Health and Poverty Buy Pharmacy on a Bicycle : Innovative Solutions for Global Health and Poverty Download Pharmacy on a Bicycle : Innovative Solutions for Global Health and Poverty for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Pharmacy on a Bicycle : Innovative Solutions for Global Health and Poverty