If you’ve been on a short-term trip you’ve experienced it;
it’s the last day and the line of patients is as long as the day of arrival. Desperation is in the air. There is a nagging sense in your gut that this is not right. This session
will present techniques that empower believers to meet the healthcare needs in their own community
An introduction to Women's Cycle of Life, part of a comprehensive, wholistic curriculum and program that equips women to thrive in the face of a multitude of challenges in the developing world. In order to help women thrive, it is important to understand not only the challenges they face, but also the roots of those challenges. Women's Cycle of Life training is part of a larger wholistic community development approach that equips communities, leaders, and women to see every aspect of themselves through God's eyes. Lessons include a wide-range of physical, spiritual, and social topics focused on helping women live life abundantly.
Using examples from the DRC of major burns, head injuries and fractures
the speaker will point to some generally available resources, practical
innovations and possible priorities in the provision of surgical care in
the developing world.
How should I manage medical and surgical diseases in a resource limited setting? How do I decide whether to test or just treat? Should I treat the poor, rural farmer in Africa for mild HTN as I would a farmer in Minnesota? Learn an evidence-based probabilistic approach to rational, ethical, shared decision making with patients in resource limited settings that leads to cost effective care. Learn how to leave expensive, guideline centered, inefficient, futile care and embrace high value, patient-centric, cost effective, sensible care for the poor and medically underserved
The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy has been proven to prevent disease, disability, and death and improve care for ill children in outpatient settings in low income countries. Learn the algorithms that can help you and your colleagues provide high quality integrated care for sick children in resource-limited settings at a fraction of the cost of usual care, improve case management skills of your health care staff, as well as improve your local health system and the health practices of families and communities where you serve.
