Pharmaceuticals for Developing Countries Conference Proceedings (1979) / Chapter Skim
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Since Dr. Hamburg became its president, the Institute of Medicine has played an increasingly prominent role in developing national and international health policy alternatives for the United States.
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And at a time when measles is nearing extinction in the United States, 1.2 million children around the world will fall victim to it this year. Six hundred thousand people, most of them children, will die from tetanus this year; 200,000 will die from polio, and 300,000 from whooping cough.
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But if it is to be a simple, basic system, then it will not be equipped to handle the distribution of the 25,000 drug products currently marketed in the United States. Such a distribution system is not only out of the question from a health systems standpoint -- it is also economically impossible for the developing nations.
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-- The Xerox Corporation and the Children's Television Workshop have developed mass media preventive health messages for presentation throughout Latin America. There is a long list of private industry cooperation with local community efforts to help develop primary care systems.
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Its goal will be to improve the ability of the United States to help solve some of these problems. It will attempt to strengthen the research capability, to improve and expand our training programs, to improve our service and technical assistance capabilities.
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That is why in this endeavor there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither male nor female, neither authoritarian nor democratic nation, neither liberal nor conservative. There is only illness to be cared for, hunger to be fed, death to be driven off.
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