BIOE 260: Intro to Global Health Issues

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BIOE 260 Intro to Global Health Issues

• Spring 2008

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Projects for 2008

• Pictorial dosing guide
• Botswana - Baylor Intl. Pediatric AIDS Initiative
  
  
• Houston - Gulfton Area Medical Clinic
• Micro-Enterprise Training Program
• Masianokeng High School, Lesotho
• Developing World H.S. Health Technology
  Activities
  
• Machabeng IB Program School, Lesotho
• Masianokeng High School, Lesotho
• Measuring Medication Adherence
• Lesotho Baylor Intl. Pediatric AIDS Initiative
• Medical Diagnostic Lab in a Backpack
• Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative,
  Sub-Saharan Africa
  
• Terrier Rouge, Haiti
• Guatemala
• Heath Science Education Materials, Primary
  Grades
  
• Terrier Rouge, Haiti

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Pictorial Dosing Guide

• Create a customized daily dosing card of a
  patients daily drug regimen, using instructional
  images that are easy to understand and relevant
  to the target population.
• Area 1 - Gulfton Area of Houston Comprehension
  of medical treatment plan is a major concern with
  a predominantly Hispanic and immigrant
  population.
• Area 2 Botswana- HIV/AIDS Drug regimens are
  often complex and demanding making adherence to
  drug treatment a challenge.

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Pictorial Dosing Guide

• Overall Goals
• Affordable and appropriate pictorial guide that
  will provide details of medicine dosing regimen
  to patients
  
• Providing the guide to the patient should not
  interfere with the doctors work pattern or
  patient flow
  
• Guide should be easy for the doctor to customize
• Medications that are appropriate for the target
  environment should be included in the guide
  

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Micro-Enterprise Training Program

• Research and design a micro-enterprise training
  program to be implemented at Masianokeng High
  School, Maseru, Lesotho
  
• Problem
• Young persons pursuing education
• and employment in extremely
• impoverished communities are limited
• by difficulties in access to educational
• and livelihood opportunities.

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Micro-Enterprise Training Program

• Overall Goals
• Create a micro-enterprise training program to
  enable high school aged students to start a
  successful business selling Sun Night Solar
  lights
• Program should provide jobs and income to
  maintain and enhance educational and health
  initiatives
  
• Develop basic management and financial skills

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Developing World H.S. Health Technology
Activities

• Create kits of materials for educational
  activities on health and technology topics
  targeting high school students.
  
• Area 1 Machabeng IB Program School, Maseru,
  Lesotho
  
• Area 2 - Masianokeng High School, Maseru,
  Lesotho
  
• Problem
• Lesotho is one of the many sub-Saharan African
  countries impacted by HIV/AIDS pandemic affecting
  all ages, genders and socio-economic levels.
  Educating High school students on locally
  relevant health issues can enable them to
  effectively respond to the challenges of HIV/AIDS
  in their country.

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Developing World H.S. Health Technology
Activities

• Overall Goals
• Create kits of interactive activities for high
  school students that promote understanding of and
  interest in science and health with a focus on
  locally relevant topics (HIV/AIDS, disease
  transmission, human biology)
• Gender and cultural issues should be considered
  in activity development
  
• Materials must be available and affordable locally

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Measuring Medication Adherence

• Create a method for pharmacist to accurately
  measure a patients adherence to their treatment
  program by measuring amount of medication used
  between clinic visits.
• Problem
• The BIPAI Lesotho COE serves the healthcare needs
  of the pediatric HIV/AIDS population in Maseru.
  
  
• Adherence to the HIV/AIDS treatment plan is vital
  to the effectiveness of the treatment to avoid
  building resistance to the drug treatment
  
• Clinic pharmacist/staff spends a lot of time
  manually counting or measuring medications to
  determine patient adherence

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Measuring Medication Adherence

• Overall Goals
• Create a device that can measure easily and
  quickly both liquid and pill medications
  
• Device should be inexpensive, dependable, and
  portable
  
• If system uses software, it must be Excel or
  other Microsoft Office based software.

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Medical Diagnostic Lab in a Backpack

• Create a customized lab in a backpack for
  clients working in developing countries
  (Sub-Saharan Africa, Haiti, Guatemala).
  
• A prototype was designed by a BIOE451
• senior design team in 2006-07.
• Problem
• A large percentage of patients needing
• medical treatment live in rural areas and are
• unable to reach a medical clinic. Doctors
• sometimes need to travel to remote areas
• to see and treat patients.

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Medical Diagnostic Lab in a Backpack

• Overall Goals
• To survey doctors
• Create list of items needed
• Help assemble and customize new backpacks
• The custom backpacks should fully meet each
  locations specific needs while maintaining the
  criteria of small size, portability, low cost and
  low power consumption.

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Health/Science Educational Materials for Primary
School Students and their Parents

• Basic health/science education is particularly
  important to communities with limited or unsafe
  water resources
  
• The project will create two kits of materials for
  health science educational activities and related
  science topics appropriate for the local Haitian
  community one targeted at elementary students
  and a complementary kit for the childrens
  parents
• Project team will collaborate with a French
  primary school in Houston
  

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Health/Science Educational Materials for Primary
School Students and their Parents

• Overall Goals
• - Kits contain at least 4 interactive activities
  with the aim of expanding understanding
  
• of basic health related topics and
• promotes an interest in science
• and engineering.
• - Materials should be inexpensive
• and available locally.