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It's estimated at 500 billion dollars each year, in terms of higher
health
care spending, higher dropout rates, and more crime.
We are committed to healing ourselves, to lacing up our sneakers, to walking out of our front door every single day for total healing and transformation in our communities, because we understand that we are in the footsteps of a civil rights legacy like no other time before, and that we are facing a
health
crisis like never ever before.
So I started taking girls hiking, which is why we're called GirlTrek, but Vanessa was like, that is not going to move the dial on the
health
crisis; it's cute.
Private weight loss companies, government interventions, public
health
campaigns.
It's what I do, and this
health
crisis ain't nothing compared to the road we have traveled.
We know that walking is the single most powerful thing that a woman can do for her health, so we knew we were on to something, because from Harriet Tubman to the women in Montgomery, when Black women walk, things change.
Our
health
care system is structured in such a way that the work of diagnosing disease and prescribing medicines is limited to a team of nurses and doctors like me.
What if Musu could help us bring
health
care from clinics in cities to the doorsteps of her neighbors?
Our goal is to bring a
health
worker within reach of everyone, everywhere.
Working as part of our team, working as paraprofessionals, community
health
workers can help ensure that a lot of what your family doctor would do reaches the places that most family doctors could never go.
One of my favorite things to do is to care for patients with community
health
workers.
Last year, we hired and trained A.B. as a community
health
worker.
I'm so inspired by these community
health
workers.
He lived in an area where the roads were sparse and there had been massive shortages of
health
workers.
At the height of the crisis, when we were told that 1.4 million people could be infected, when we were told that most of them would die, when we had nearly lost all hope, I remember standing with a group of
health
workers in the rainforest where an outbreak had just happened.
When Ebola threatened to bring humanity to its knees, Liberia's community
health
workers didn't surrender to fear.
Some ten thousand community
health
workers risked their own lives to help hunt down this virus and stop it in its tracks.
We've learned that blind spots in rural
health
care can lead to hot spots of disease, and that places all of us at greater risk.
And most of all, we've learned from the courage of Liberia's community
health
workers that we as people are not defined by the conditions we face, no matter how hopeless they seem.
It's true, these community
health
workers aren't doing neurosurgery, but they're making it possible to bring
health
care within reach of everyone everywhere.
What we also know is that if we trained an army of community
health
workers to learn even just 30 lifesaving skills, we could save the lives of nearly 30 million people by 2030.
In Liberia, the Liberian government is training thousands of workers like A.B. and Musu after Ebola, to bring
health
care to every child and family in the country.
People are worried that technology is going to steal our jobs, but when it comes to community
health
workers, technology has actually been vital for creating jobs.
If we truly want community
health
workers to master those lifesaving skills and even more, we've got to change this old-school model of education.
And I've been thinking that it's time; it's time for a collision between the digital education revolution and the community
health
revolution.
We will bring those to community
health
workers around the world, including A.B. and Musu.
And we'll work tirelessly to persuade governments to make community
health
workers a cornerstone of their
health
care plans.
With the power of this platform, we believe countries can be more persuaded that a
health
care revolution really is possible.
She lived in an isolated community in the forest that had gone for 100 years without any
health
care until ... until last year when a nurse trained her neighbors to become community
health
workers.
She gave this to me to put on my desk for personal health, because at the time, I was working on my first real business.
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