Appropriate Technology and Health Care

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Appropriate Technology and Health Care

• Ryan Jerico
• TED 210
• Design and Appropriate Technology

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Imagine you left everything that you know.
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All the comforts of the modern world.
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Think if you had to live like this everyday.
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Health Care Problems in Third World Countries

• Lack of access to Medicine
• Lack of Infrastructure
• Drug Resistance

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Lack of Medication

• Drugs lack quality
• Drugs lack quantity
• Drugs are non existent.
• Drug Resistance

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Personnel Facilities

• Facilities are in inadequate locations.
• Facilities are dilapidated.
• Personnel Shortfalls
• Infrastructure

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Addressing Problems

• Until recently few governments in under developed
  areas of the world have seriously addressed
  health issues such as the AIDS virus.
• The challenge is educating an uneducated
  population.

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Zimbabwe

• spends about 12 cents per HIV/AIDS patient per
  day on health care the country's health
  expenditures per capita totals 31.

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Fixing the Situation