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Claudia Hammond joins scientists and experts to explore science’s effect on our world

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The Evidence: Science and Society: Building Better Healthcare

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Building Better Healthcare

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Building a healthcare system: who gets treated and who pays? Innovation maybe the key.

Building healthcare systems: who gets treated and who pays? Lower income countries like Bangladesh devise new solutions; in India digital technology has doubled access to doctors.

Healthcare is not only a human right but key to sustainable societies. If you could build a healthcare system from scratch, how would you design it? We hear from Dr Bailor Barrie who grew up in poverty in Sierra Leone, survived war and near death to fulfil his dream to become a doctor only to discover if you didn’t have money you couldn’t afford health care. Travelling to one of the areas most devastated by the war he co-founded the Wellbody Alliance and has transformed health care in the Kono district. Claudia asks about his experience of setting up clinics in Sierra Leone in the aftermath of war and natural disasters such as Ebola. Associate Professor Dina Balabanova from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine surveys the countries in the world with surprisingly effective health services, emphasising that it’s not how much money you spend, but how you spend it and innovation is everything.  Nayanabhiram Kalnad explains  how digital healthcare is making medicine more equitable and from his company’s experience how doctors manage ever increasing demands in India.

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The Evidence: Science and Society

Claudia Hammond explores health in the context of society with experts from medicine, neuroscience, history and art.

How does Science push Civilisation forward? When does Science lead the process and when does it take civilisation down as many wrong paths as it takes us forward. Science has given us understanding of the cosmos, penicillin, the human genome. It has also given us pollution, atomic bombs and a technological divide which means that for many civilisation is split between those who have access to science and its discoveries and those who do not. 

The BBC World Service is joining forces with Wellcome Collection to create a new series of events and radio programmes that will explore scientific discoveries and approaches in health in the context of society and civilisation with international experts from the worlds of medicine, neuroscience, history and art.

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