{"id":583231,"date":"2010-05-26T02:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssireview.org\/articles\/entry\/containing_a_global_health_care_crisis\/"},"modified":"2010-05-26T02:00:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T06:00:21","slug":"containing-a-global-health-care-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/583231","title":{"rendered":"Containing a Global Health Care Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever Elizabeth Sheehan drives into Boston, she makes a mental note of how many shipping containers she spots near the harbor. \u201cThere\u2019s a wall of them, and some haven\u2019t moved in months,\u201d says the Massachusetts resident. If Sheehan gets her way, many of these surplus metal boxes will soon be transformed into clean, efficient health care centers outfitted to serve the most vulnerable people throughout the Caribbean, Africa, and Southeast Asia. That\u2019s the idea behind Containers to Clinics (C2C). Sheehan, a physician\u2019s assistant with a decade of health care experience in the developing world, founded the nonprofit in hopes of \u201cdelivering lifesaving medicine and health care to the last mile.\u201d She has seen what happens when there is no access to basic medical care. \u201cThe most vulnerable populations\u2014rural women and children\u2014die in droves,\u201d she says, often from treatable illnesses like diarrhea and pneumonia. The prototype C2C design, developed in collaboration with sustainable building specialists and public health experts, combines two retrofitted containers in an \u201cL\u201d shape. One side contains private, well-lighted examination rooms and basic diagnostic equipment; the other houses a pharmacy and medical laboratory. Solar-powered fans keep the metal boxes from overheating, and a canopy offers shade for waiting\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever Elizabeth Sheehan drives into Boston, she makes a mental note of how many shipping containers she spots near the harbor. \u201cThere\u2019s a wall of them, and some haven\u2019t moved in months,\u201d says the Massachusetts resident. If Sheehan gets her way, many of these surplus metal boxes will soon be transformed into clean, efficient health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":544,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}