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Brian G. Dowling

PLoS Medicine - Which Single Intervention Would Do the Most to Improve the Health of Th... - 0 views

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  • Over 200 scientific and medical journals are taking part. For our theme issue, we asked a wide variety of commentators worldwide—including clinicians, medical researchers, health reporters, policy makers, health activists, and development experts—to name the single intervention that they think would improve the health of those living in poverty.
  • Brian G. Dowling on 17 Oct 08
     
    Over 200 scientific and medical journals are taking part. For our theme issue, we asked a wide variety of commentators worldwide-including clinicians, medical researchers, health reporters, policy makers, health activists, and development experts
  • Brian G. Dowling on 17 Oct 08
     
    The dollar-a-day perspective is an important one is all aspects of life but especially in regards to health care. Healthcare providers trying to achieve the Millennium Development goals not only have to overcome the poverty of the individual but the poverty of national infrastructure.
Brian G. Dowling

FrontlineSMS:Medic | Text Messages Save Lives - 0 views

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shared by Brian G. Dowling on 01 Aug 09 - Cached
  • How powerful is a light-weight tool in the right hands? During a six month pilot in Malawi, our partner doubled the number of people being treated for Tuberculosis.
  • Driven by local ownership and appropriate technology. In the developing world, lack of infrastructure prevents health workers from delivering efficient healthcare to rural areas. As health workers travel from clinics to reach isolated patients, they are often as disconnected from central clinics as the patients they are trying to serve. The mission of FrontlineSMS:Medic is to advance healthcare networks in the developing world by building and distributing innovative, appropriate mobile technologies. The centerpiece of our system is FrontlineSMS, a free, open-source software platform that enables large-scale, two-way text messaging using only a laptop, a GSM modem, and cell phones. We are also developing several applications for the FrontlineSMS platform that will enable better patient management, electronic medical records via the cell phone, cheap mobile diagnostics, and mapping of health services.
  • Brian G. Dowling on 01 Aug 09
     
    Implementing the Millennium Development Goals health objectives in the developing world will require new technologies arising from disruptive innovation. Finding new uses for technologies we take for granted.
Brian G. Dowling

Partners In Health Vision - Whatever it takes - 0 views

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shared by Brian G. Dowling on 01 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The PIH Vision: Whatever it takes At its root, our mission is both medical and moral. It is based on solidarity, rather than charity alone. When a person in Peru, or Siberia, or rural Haiti falls ill, PIH uses all of the means at our disposal to make them well—from pressuring drug manufacturers, to lobbying policy makers, to providing medical care and social services. Whatever it takes. Just as we would do if a member of our own family—or we ourselves—were ill.
  • Brian G. Dowling on 01 Aug 09
     
    The PIH model of care - partnering with poor communities to combat disease and poverty. This is an on-the-ground approach to implementing the Millennium Development Goals. Getting our governments to keep their promise is only one step in acheiving the goals. The world is focused as never before on averting millions of preventable deaths among poor people living in the developing world. For the first time, substantial funding is available to treat infectious diseases in impoverished settings. Funding alone, though, won't be enough. For this massive investment to make a real impact on the twin epidemics of poverty and disease, a comprehensive and community-based approach is key.
  • Brian G. Dowling on 01 Aug 09
     
    The PIH model of care - partnering with poor communities to combat disease and poverty The world is focused as never before on averting millions of preventable deaths among poor people living in the developing world. For the first time, substantial funding is available to treat infectious diseases in impoverished settings. Funding alone, though, won't be enough. For this massive investment to make a real impact on the twin epidemics of poverty and disease, a comprehensive and community-based approach is key.
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Do Diseases Come From Space: Comet Controversy - 1 views

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  • MrGhaz . on 06 Jan 10
     
    To test their theory, the two astronomers studied flu outbreaks in British boarding schools. They found that flu did not spread from dormitory to dormitory, as one might think. Instead, out-breaks began randomly in different dormitories, as they might if they had been caused by organisms they might if they had been caused by organisms drifting through the atmosphere. In addition a flu epidemic in Sardinia in 1948 followed the same pattern.
  • Brian G. Dowling on 17 Jan 10
     
    Sorry about not getting you in the group sooner. I did not realize that I had to approve anybody. So please explain a bit more clearly what this has to do with the Millennium Development Goals?
  • Benno Hansen on 07 Feb 10
     
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Brian G. Dowling

jopsa.org - Projects and perspectives on global health - 0 views

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  • From the start of our projects to the finish, it’s people who determine what FrontlineSMS:Medic does, when we do it, and why. The tech tools we use exist to serve patients, community health workers, and healthcare professionals – not the other way around. This mindset is critical for a number of reasons. I’ll explain. We strongly believe that projects should start when clinics ‘pull’ them to a site, as opposed to having projects ‘pushed’ onto healthcare providers. Ken Banks included the (very important) push/pull differentiation in his “Development best practices for beginners” series. Clinics are not just convenient places to pilot technology innovations. Healthcare providers should demand programs they need, and we should be ready to respond. Local staff should determine how the tech will be used, and we should be flexible and helpful in working through use cases and functionality.
  • Brian G. Dowling on 01 Aug 09
     
    The FrontlineSMS in action
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