Paul Farmer had a unique "out of the box" approach to addressing global health disparities. Why do you think his approach has been so successful? What are the strategies and practices from him that western medicine can learn from in order to improve the life expectancy and overall health of global populations?

 

1. Why was Farmèr Successful.

The first thing Farmer did was identify the problem. It wasn't that third world societies were poor in an infrastructural sense; it was that they lacked basic understanding of what game they were playing. This was not an inferiority issue, it was a mindset issue. Scarcity was not seen as an opportunity for growth by producing, but as a competition for the little that existed. Instead of broad collaboration to solve problems there was intense competition to drag each other down. Health care should never have been an Object of competition, but Dr. Farmer didn't complain, he went to work and fixed it.

Lessons to learn from Dr. Farmer

• Health care patients are humans, not customers to be acquired. people should treat healthcare as a humane issue not Capitalism issue.
• Collaboration benefits everybody at the end. Pfizer and BioNtech could have engaged in Cooperate espionage to be the first to produce a vaccine, But they didn't. And Now we have a vaccine that will save lives.
• Education is Key. The main strategy he deployed in Africa was to educate them on basics of what a disease needs to thrive. Environmental and Psychological factors that boost or inhibit the immune system.
• The Embrace of health science. The most important aspect of our lives will always be our healthcare. We must provide the pathways for people to embark on the Journey of being healthcare professionals by embracing it as a vital skill for life.
• Funding And Research. The more we spend ,the more we discover.