Pharmacy on a bicycle : innovative solutions to global health and poverty /

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"Traditional pathways to delivering health care to the global poor are failing. Five million children die each year before their fifth birthday due to lack of basic health education, services, or low-cost treatments. Bing and Epstein show how focusing micro-innovations at the level of care is t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bing, Eric G.
Otros Autores: Epstein, Marc J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, [2013]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:BK currents book.
Temas:
Pharmaceutical policy > Developing countries.
Drugs > Developing countries.
Medical care > Developing countries.
World health.
Medical care.
Diffusion of innovations.
Entrepreneurship.
Drug and Narcotic Control
Delivery of Health Care
Developing Countries
Diffusion of Innovation
Entrepreneurship
Global Health
Patient Care
Santé mondiale.
Prestation de soins.
Innovations > Diffusion.
Entrepreneuriat.
Soins médicaux.
entrepreneurs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
MEDICAL > Allied Health Services > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Developing & Emerging Countries.
Diffusion of innovations
Drugs
Medical care
Pharmaceutical policy
World health
Developing countries
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : why pharmacy on a bicycle
  • Part I. The prescription
  • ch. 1. Saving millions
  • ch. 2. Ideas in action : innovation and entrepreneurship
  • ch. 3. A shift in perspective : task shifting to save more
  • ch. 4. Tipping the scales : scaling up to save lives
  • Part II. IMPACTS in motion
  • ch. 5. The warmth of a mother's touch : maternal and child health
  • ch. 6. A drop of vinegar : solutions for infectious diseases
  • ch. 7. The elephants in the room : noncommunicable diseases
  • Part III. Moving forward
  • ch. 8. Getting there from here : priorities, plans, and progress
  • ch. 9. Busting barriers : heeding the call.

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