Pharmacy on a Bicycle
：Innovative Solutions to Global Health and Poverty
Publication subTitle ：Innovative Solutions to Global Health and Poverty
Author： Bing Eric; Epstein Marc J.
Publisher： Berrett Koehler
Publication year： 2013
E-ISBN: 9781609947903
Subject： D501 developing countries (general);F2 Economic Planning and Management;F27 Enterprise Economy
Keyword： 发展中国家（总论）,企业经济,经济计划与管理
Language： ENG
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Description
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
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