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About Regan Marsh
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Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo - Partners In Health
Website: http://pih.org/where/Malawi/Malawi.html
Type: Non-Governmental Organization
Country: Malawi
About: In early 2007, PIH and its newest partner organization, Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo (APZU), started treating patients and training community health workers in the southwestern corner of Malawi. Apwenzi Pa Za Umoyo (APZU) combines treatment for HIV patients with comprehensive, community-based health care and programs to combat the conditions of extreme poverty in which disease takes root, including hunger and lack of access to clean water and decent housing, schools and livelihoods.
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Harvard School of Public Health
Website: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/
Type: Academic Institution
Country: United States
About: The Harvard School of Public Health includes more than 200 faculty members working in various disciplines of public health. The overarching mission of the School - to advance the public's health through learning, discovery, and communication - comprises four objectives: to provide the highest level of education to public health scientists, practitioners, and leaders; to foster new discoveries leading to improved health for the people of this country and all nations; to strengthen health capacities and services for communities; and to inform policy debate, disseminate health information and increase awareness of public health as a public good and fundamental right.
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Partners HealthCare System
Website: http://www.partners.org/
Type: For-Profit Organization
Country: United States
About: Partners HealthCare was founded in 1994 by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. Partners is an integrated health care system that offers patients a continuum of coordinated high-quality care. The system includes primary care and specialty physicians, community hospitals, the two founding academic medical centers, specialty facilities, community health centers, and other health-related entities. Partners HealthCare is a non-profit organization.
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Partners In Health - PIH
Website: http://www.pih.org/
Type: Non-Governmental Organization
Country: United States
About: Partners In Health, co-founded by physicians Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim, serves millions of poor patients in nine countries, providing them with extensive health care and social services that address the root causes of poor health. By successfully proving that providing comprehensive, community-based medical care for complex diseases such as AIDS and tuberculosis is not just possible but essential, the organization has helped bring about significant changes in global health policies and practices.
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Regan Marsh
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"Enhancing Training Capacity to Strengthen Pre-hospital Trauma Care in Developing Countries"
in the
Global Surgery & Anesthesia community.
Dear panelists, Thanks again for your comments. In your experiences, have EMS programs by run primarily by hospitals/teaching institutions or by governments (local or national)? And given resource limitations, and often transport difficulties, what processes were in place to 'triage' the use of the EMS services to the most appropriate? Dr Razzak, In response to your question above about cost effectiveness, at the recent SAEM meeting, there was an abstract presented about a recently established ...
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