Reimagining Innovation in Humanitarian Medicine: Engineering Care to Improve Health and Welfare

ISBN-13: 9783030032845 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 105 str.

Krish W. Ramadurai; Sujata K. Bhatia

Recenzje

"This book promotes the promise that introducing technological innovations into humanitarian crises can reduce the cost of care and improve health outcomes. ... this thin and thoughtful volume could be useful to students interested in learning more about the potential of innovative, disruptive technologies in humanitarian settings." (Dilshad Jaff, Medicine, Conflict and Survival, Vol. 35 (1), 2019)

Spis treści

I. The Humanitarian Relief Paradigm

1.1     Current Humanitarian Crises: Defining the Humanitarian Aid Complex

1.2     Medical Treatment in Unconventional Settings: Meeting the Needs of Conflict Victims

........    1.2.1     Health Is Wealth: Avoiding Chronic Illness as a Perpetuity

1.2.2     The Humanitarian Paradox: What Happens When We Leave?

1.3     Disparities of Healthcare Services in Conflict Areas

1.4     Humanitarian Innovation and Frugal Engineering: A Social Perspective

 

II. Humanitarian Innovation and Medicine: Defining the Innovation Process

        2.1   Adapting Innovation Sub-Types in Humanitarian Medicine: Turning the Unconventional into Conventional

2.2      Frugal Innovation Sub-Types in Health and Medicine

                        2.2.1    Contextualized Adaptations

2.2.2    Bottom-Up

2.2.3.   Lean Tools and Techniques

2.2.4    Opportunistic Solutions

2.3     Disruptive Innovation: The Real Meaning

2.4     Open and Reverse Innovation + Crowdsourcing and Wikicapital: The Future of Creative Problem-Solving

 

III. Frugal Medical Technologies and Adaptive Solutions: Field-Based Applications

3.1     Enhancing the Interventional Capacity of Humanitarian Practitioners, Community Health Workers, and Crisis-Stricken Communities

            3.2.    Scaling Adaptive Solutions in the Humanitarian Field

3.2.1    Surgical Care and Prosthetics  

3.2.2    Neonatal and Maternal Conditions

3.2.3    Infectious Diseases

 

IV. Disruptive Technologies and Innovations in Aid and Disaster Relief: An Integrative Approach

4.1    Data Collection and Crisis Management: Crowdsourced Crisis Mapping

4.2    Robotics and Wearable Technology

4.3    mHealth, Telehealth, and Blockchain

 

V. Humanitarian Innovation in the Modern Era: Ending Human Suffering

5.1     Reworking Knowledge Transfer in the Humanitarian Ecosystem: Empowering Conflict Victim and Refugee Innovation

5.2     The Future of Humanitarian Medicine and Creative Problem-Solving