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.
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- Improving Health-Care Delivery in Low-Resource Settings With Nanotechnology: Challenges in Multiple Dimensions
- Abbas, James (Author)
- Smith, Barbara (Author)
- Poluta, Mladen (Author)
- Velazquez-Berumen, Adriana (Author)
- Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering (Contributor)
- Digital object identifier: 10.1177/1849543517701158
- Identifier TypeInternational standard serial numberIdentifier Value1849-5435
- The final version of this article, as published in Nanobiomedicine, can be viewed online at: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1849543517701158
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Abbas, J. J., Smith, B., Poluta, M., & Velazquez-Berumen, A. (2017). Improving health-care delivery in low-resource settings with nanotechnology. Nanobiomedicine, 4, 184954351770115. doi:10.1177/1849543517701158