Improving health-care delivery in low-resource settings with nanotechnology: Challenges in multiple dimensions

Nanobiomedicine

James JAbbas¹ 

关键词: Nanotechnology;    global health;    low-resource settings;    technology transfer;    commercialization;    partnerships;    medical device design;    task shifting;   

DOI  :  10.1177/1849543517701158

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

In the two decades after 1990, the rates of child and maternal mortality dropped by over 40% and 47%, respectively. Despite these improvements, which are in part due to increased access to medical technologies, profound health disparities exist. In 2015, a child born in a developing region is nearly eight times as likely to die before the age of 5 than one born in a developed region and developing regions accounted for nearly 99% of the maternal deaths. Recent developments in nanotechnology, however, have great potential to ameliorate these and other health disparities by providing new cost-effective solutions for diagnosis or treatment of a variety of medical conditions. Affordability is only one of the several challenges that will need to be met to translate new ideas into a medical product that addresses a global health need. This article aims to describe some of the other challenges that will be faced by nanotechnologists who seek to make an impact in low-resource settings across the globe.

【 授权许可】

CC BY