Goals

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Short term:

  • Provide acute care for basic health issues within the communities we surveyed in the summer of 2008.
  • Start providing chronic care for patients with diabetes and hypertension through 6 months supplies of medications and education.
  • Continue building our relationships with the communities of Siete de Abril and Monte de Olivios.
  • Expand interdisciplinary participation of OSU students in the project.
  • Research and develop an appropriate programmatic response to chronic malnutrition in the communities that we serve.
  • Train lay health care workers that can manage chronic conditions in the absence of health care providers

Long term:

  • Establish a long-term partnership between OSU and the communities in and around El Progreso, Honduras.
  • Provide a productive service learning environment for Ohio State professional students and faculty
  • Collaborate with other health professionals to provide dental, optometric, nursing, and public health care.
  • Create programs with the goal of sustainability, patient empowerment and preventative medicine.
  • Build a clinic structure that can be supplied, staffed, and supported year round.