Bringing Healthcare to the People

Can training neighbors to provide basic health care to each other help save lives? That's the promise of community health care workers who are being trained in developing countries, and they could help out in the developed world as well.
This video was produced in partnership with the Skoll Foundation.
There is an urgent challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa: people are dying from treatable illnesses like malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea. The traditional model is that families find their way to a doctor or a hospital for their healthcare needs. But millions of families live in hard-to-reach communities that may be hours-or days-from the nearest clinic.
That’s why Community Health Workers-paid, professionally trained members of these local communities-are bringing primary health services straight to their neighbors’ doorsteps. Empowered with sophisticated training, supervision, and digital tools, Community Health Workers extend the reach of the healthcare system to rural and remote communities. And it’s working: Community Health Workers have been proven to dramatically reduce mortality rates for pregnant women and their children.
Now, governments and NGOs are partnering to ensure this model can grow globally to ensure everyone, everywhere can access lifesaving healthcare.
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[@freethink]

What do you think of this approach?

[@brittanys505]

Awesome!

[@alexrubenstein7610]

Amazing!

[@RobertF-]

Simple yet powerful.

[@ferfleur]

I wonder if... the community agents are provided with simple things like means of transportation, for example bikes, for communities where the territory to cover is very broad. Because the community workers could bring more equipment and medicine with them depending on necessity.
And also, if the app they use have statistics for tracking the amount of work and healthcare they provide there in order to advance improvements and show to other governments the impact this kind of program brings to their communities.
And also, the app system of gathering information, with the right AI, it could show if in a specific region, there is a surge of malaria or colera, to warn in advance the authorities about the need to intervene in a region to prevent the spread of those. Hmm what else is possible?

[@freethink]

Awesome ideas - really exciting to think of the possibilities! Check out chwimpact.org/ to learn more or get involved!

[@airangel94]

Such incredible people paving the way towards accessible health care for all! So inspiring!

[@ferfleur]

Omg, this is so beautiful! I wish this would spread throughout the whole world!

[@freethink]

Hopefully it does! You can join up with them or get updates at chwimpact.org/#join-us !

[@alexrubenstein7610]

We need more of this around the world!!

[@freethink]

Absolutely! Hopefully it's just a matter of time!

[@AlexanderAlekieTheGreatAlexis]

PHC is real and it is possible to achieve UHC, all that is needed is the will and commitment.

[@nathanmiranda8917]

Freethink is the most underrated channel ever

[@WefwafwaAndrew]

Wow these people are just doing what I have been doing, I'm so glad

[@theendseekers5497]

Wow this is amazing!! Yes much needed resources

[@shahedsawair8020]

Thank you ! Doctor I want to ask you how I should study for my public health course in medical school(I’m a first year medical school student) can you please help me for resources needed to improve my learning skills in public health

[@Gorlokki]

Wonderful

[@freethink]

Thanks so much, glad you liked it!

[@colindevoe8713]

This is incedible!

[@freethink]

So glad you liked it, thanks for watching!

[@ivanaveltmeyer6373]

How can I do volunteer nursing for poor people who deserve it just as well as anyone else in the world?
I’m a nurse and I’m from Australia, I want to help as volunteer nursing. Is anyone know where I should go? Please let me know if you do.

[@WefwafwaAndrew]

So I'm a community health worker 🥰

[@thesolution2812]

Amen 🙏

[@kalyanibhatt8597]

🙏🙏❤️❤️🙏🙏

[@kitani717]

Africa is the richest continent on Earth for natural resources such as cobalt

[@madeleineballard4844]

For more on how the organizations in this video are working together with Ministries of Health to catalyze the adoption of high-impact community health systems design, visit: www.chwimpact.org