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Villages Without Doctors – NYTimes.com

February 15, 2011

By TINA ROSENBERG
FixesFixes looks at solutions to social problems and why they work.

For the next few weeks, I’ll be writing about an idea that can make people healthier while bringing down health care costs, both in poor countries and in the United States.
The strategy is to move beyond doctors to take the work of health care and shift down from doctors and nurses to lay people, peers and family.  In the United States and other wealthy countries, lay people can fill in the gaps in left by doctors’ care.  In poor countries, people with no or little formal medical training are successfully substituting for doctors and nurses. via … Villages Without Doctors – NYTimes.com.

(Readers with ideas for future columns can write to the authors at fixes@nytimes.com)

February 15, 2011 Filed Under: Medical-Health Tagged With: Medicine

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