Community health heroes
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0:00 - 0:04(Music)
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0:04 - 0:06Raj Panjabi: Illness is universal,
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0:06 - 0:08access to care is not,
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0:08 - 0:11and realizing this lit a fire in my soul.
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0:11 - 0:15No one should die because
they live too far from a doctor or clinic. -
0:17 - 0:18I wish that you would help us
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0:19 - 0:22recruit the largest army
of community health workers -
0:22 - 0:24the world has ever known
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0:24 - 0:26by creating the Community Health Academy,
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0:26 - 0:30a global platform
to train, connect and empower. -
0:34 - 0:36[Great Big Story
in partnership with TED] -
0:36 - 0:39Narrator: They had a big idea
to change the world. -
0:41 - 0:43But they couldn't do it alone.
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0:43 - 0:46(Voices overlapping)
So, my wish ... My wish ... I wish ... -
0:46 - 0:49And now, here's my wish ...
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0:49 - 0:51[Torchbearers]
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0:51 - 0:53[Ideas in action]
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0:57 - 1:01RP: Epidemic diseases
like Ebola, HIV, Zika, -
1:01 - 1:04emerge from remote, rural communities
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1:04 - 1:07including the rain forests
of West and Central Africa. -
1:07 - 1:10These are the hotspots of disease.
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1:10 - 1:12They're the hotspots of infections.
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1:12 - 1:13They're the hotspots of death
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1:13 - 1:17that are located in the blindspots
of the global health system. -
1:18 - 1:21The idea that disease anywhere
can be a threat to people everywhere -
1:21 - 1:23is very real.
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1:23 - 1:24So how do we stop this?
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1:24 - 1:27Well, it's to enable
community health workers -
1:27 - 1:32to prevent, detect and respond
to outbreaks at their very source. -
1:33 - 1:36(Music)
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1:43 - 1:46There are a billion people
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1:46 - 1:48who live in the world's
most remote communities. -
1:48 - 1:54And while we've made great advances
in medicine and in technology, -
1:54 - 1:57our innovations
are not reaching the last mile. -
1:57 - 2:00They're not reaching
these remote communities. -
2:03 - 2:07We launched a nonprofit
called Last Mile Health, -
2:07 - 2:10and Last Mile Health's mission
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2:10 - 2:14is to bring a health care worker
within reach of everyone everywhere. -
2:15 - 2:17Woman: Hello. How are you?
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2:17 - 2:19RP: A community health worker
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2:19 - 2:23is someone who lives
in one of these communities -
2:23 - 2:26that's cut off, several days
away from the nearest clinic, -
2:26 - 2:29and they may not have had a chance
to finish even high school. -
2:29 - 2:31Woman: I'm just listening to her lungs.
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2:31 - 2:36RP: They're trained to perform
medical skills that can save lives. -
2:43 - 2:46Their job is to go door to door
to provide health care. -
2:53 - 2:57Serrena Kun: When I was little,
I had a passion of becoming a nurse. -
2:57 - 2:59I loved taking care of children.
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2:59 - 3:03So when the community
came here to find people, -
3:03 - 3:04I put my hand up.
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3:04 - 3:06I said I wanted to help little children.
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3:08 - 3:11RP: What these community health workers
like Serrena are doing -
3:11 - 3:15is trying to bring the kind of health care
your family doctor may provide -
3:15 - 3:18but in places your
family doctor may never go. -
3:28 - 3:31Prince Pailey: When I wake up
in the morning, -
3:31 - 3:32I put my bag on my bike.
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3:37 - 3:40The distances that I work
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3:40 - 3:43is sometimes two hours,
three hours in a forest. -
3:46 - 3:47Some areas, some creeks,
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3:47 - 3:49they drown with the ocean,
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3:49 - 3:51so that every crossing
you find it so difficult. -
3:53 - 3:56RP: Community health workers
are trained to address -
3:56 - 3:58the health problems
of their own community. -
3:58 - 3:59In a country like Liberia,
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3:59 - 4:04it could mean helping a mother
get treatment for her child -
4:04 - 4:06suffering from malaria.
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4:06 - 4:09Man: This is paracetamol.
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4:09 - 4:10This is ACT.
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4:10 - 4:13So the only time you're going to give it
is in the evening time. -
4:13 - 4:16PP: In Liberia, the children
die more than the adults, -
4:17 - 4:20because we have
some people in the villages, -
4:20 - 4:22they don't sleep under a mosquito net.
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4:26 - 4:28RP: We already know
community health workers -
4:28 - 4:31can help health care systems
save more lives. -
4:31 - 4:33Their ability to do that is strengthened
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4:33 - 4:35when they're enabled
with modern technology. -
4:35 - 4:38Woman: Now, she's saying
that the child has improved -
4:38 - 4:40and went to school today.
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4:40 - 4:44RP: If community health workers
were equipped with smartphones, -
4:44 - 4:46this would increase their ability
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4:46 - 4:50to prevent, detect and respond
to outbreaks and epidemics. -
4:51 - 4:55It's time for technology
to help reinvent health care -
4:55 - 4:56on a game-changing scale.
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4:58 - 5:02We are building the world's first
education platform -
5:02 - 5:05for community health workers
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5:05 - 5:08that allows them to see the condition.
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5:08 - 5:10There's instruction on the phone
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5:10 - 5:12to help the worker decide
what treatment to give. -
5:14 - 5:20But equipping 50,000
community health workers with smartphones -
5:20 - 5:23is an extraordinarily ambitious effort,
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5:23 - 5:27larger than what our organization
alone could take on. -
5:27 - 5:28It required collaboration.
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5:34 - 5:39We realized that working together
with other partners like Living Goods -
5:41 - 5:43would help us truly solve that problem.
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5:43 - 5:46(Child crying)
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5:46 - 5:50And then we learned
about The Audacious Project, -
5:50 - 5:54a new opportunity that TED
and a group of visionary philanthropists -
5:54 - 5:59had been working on
to fund some of the boldest, -
5:59 - 6:01most audacious ideas in the world.
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6:01 - 6:03So that's all very exciting,
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6:03 - 6:06because many, many more
millions of children and families -
6:06 - 6:08are now going to have
a chance of getting it, -
6:08 - 6:11and they're going to get it
from their own neighbors. -
6:11 - 6:14Man: They say a health worker
for everyone, everywhere, every day. -
6:14 - 6:15Thank you.
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6:15 - 6:17RP: Community health workers
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6:17 - 6:21become the very people
who can make a difference. -
6:21 - 6:25SK: I love children, I love my community,
and my community loves me. -
6:25 - 6:29PP: I have love and passion for the job,
so I will continue to work for my people. -
6:29 - 6:33RP: We could by 2030 save 30 million lives
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6:33 - 6:36by training these workers
to do 30 services. -
6:37 - 6:41We as people are not defined
by the conditions we face, -
6:41 - 6:43no matter how hopeless they seem.
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6:43 - 6:45We're defined by how we respond to them.
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6:45 - 6:48And our response has to demand
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6:48 - 6:51a health worker for everyone everywhere.
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7:00 - 7:05[Support the big ideas of
the Audacious Project] -
7:05 - 7:11[AudaciousProject.org]
- Title:
- Community health heroes
- Speaker:
- Raj Panjabi
- Description:
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Raj Panjabi has a bold idea: to recruit and train an army of community health workers to bring medical care to the billion people around the world who lack access to it. See how technology is transforming things for health workers like Serena and Prince -- and how TED's just-launched initiative, the Audacious Project, is amplifying their impact. Learn more at AudaciousProject.org.
- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- closed TED
- Project:
- TED Series
- Duration:
- 07:10
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Maricene Crus
Just to recommend a correction of the name Serrena (not Serena) at the description of the talk.
Thank you!