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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,

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
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    2017-03-29
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    • Digital object identifier: 10.1177/1849543517701158
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    • 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

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