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Table of contents(5 chapters)
Keywords
- the Humanitarian Aid Complex
- Medical Treatment in Unconventional Settings
- Medical Needs of Conflict Victims
- Healthcare Services in Conflict Areas
- Frugal Engineering in medicine
- Frugal Medical Technologies
- Disaster relief
- Humanitarian relief
- Crisis medicine
- Disaster medicine
- Health care in disaster response
- development aid
About this book
The development of highly versatile, feasible, and cost-effective medical devices and technologies that can be deployed in the field is essential to enhancing medical care in unconventional settings.
In this book we examine the nature of the creative problem-solving paradigm, and dissect the intersection of frugal, disruptive, open, and reverse innovation processes in advancing humanitarian medicine. Specifically, we examine the feasible deployment of these devices and technologies in unconventional environments not only by humanitarian aid and disaster relief agencies, but also by crisis-affected communities themselves. The challenge is complex, but the financial support and technical development of innovative solutions for the delivery of humanitarian aid is a process in which everyone is a stakeholder.
Reviews
“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)
Authors and Affiliations
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Krish W. Ramadurai
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Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, USA
Sujata K. Bhatia
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reimagining Innovation in Humanitarian Medicine
Book Subtitle: Engineering Care to Improve Health and Welfare
Authors: Krish W. Ramadurai, Sujata K. Bhatia
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Bioengineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03285-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03284-5Published: 23 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03285-2Published: 06 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2193-097X
Series E-ISSN: 2193-0988
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 105
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 51 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Development Economics, Development Aid