{"id":1336,"date":"2017-03-31T07:51:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T07:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.surmang.org\/?page_id=1336"},"modified":"2017-03-31T08:46:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T08:46:38","slug":"salient-elements-of-the-projec","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.surmang.org\/?page_id=1336","title":{"rendered":"Salient elements of the project"},"content":{"rendered":"
  • Significant buy-in from stake holders<\/strong> based on purposefully leaning into local culture: <\/li>\n

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      \n\u25e6\tOne ethnic group \u201497% Khampa Tibetan<\/ol>\n
        \n\u25e6\tOne language, Khampa Tibetan<\/ol>\n
          \n\u25e6\tAlmost total illiteracy in the Tibetan language<\/ol>\n
            \n

            \u25e6\tPoverty: about \u00a51RMB\/day income (15\u00a2 US). <\/ol>\n

              \n

              \u25e6\tRural\/agricultural based: nomadic yak herders, farmers, and monastics.<\/ol>\n

                \n\u25e6\tNo public transportation, no individual ownership of cars, trucks.<\/ol>\n
                  \n\u25e6\tTraditional. Majority nomadic yak herders and farmers. Equal number before 1959 were
                     monastics.<\/ol>\n
                    \n

                    \u25e6\tSpiritual. Only one religion \u2014 Tibetan Buddhism. Support monasteries, although there is a small
                       yogic population.<\/ol>\n

                      \n\u25e6\tLow-status of women and girls.<\/ol>\n
                        \n\u25e6\tFree medical care appeals to culture based on generosity as its core value<\/ol>\n
                      1. Track record: clinic that has seen over 120,000 ultra-poor patients for free including meds over
                             the last 10 years alone. <\/strong><\/li>\n

                        <\/p>\n

                      2. Over 50 volunteer physicians<\/strong> in the past 10 years have increased the capacity of the doctors at the
                             clinic.<\/li>\n

                        <\/p>\n

                      3. The clinic model <\/strong><\/li>\n

                        <\/p>\n

                          \n\u25e6\tDoctors who are local highly trained Khampa Tibetans, who speak read and write the local
                             language<\/ol>\n
                            \n

                            \u25e6\tCeiling-level KPIs that focuses on mother and child health<\/ol>\n

                              \n\u25e6\tFree treatment\/free meds<\/ol>\n
                                \n\u25e6\tLow per-patient costs<\/ol>\n
                                  \n\u25e6\tHigh patient satisfaction<\/ol>\n
                                    \n

                                    \u25e6\tCooperation with Public Health Service<\/ol>\n

                                  1. Significant cooperation with the Chinese Government.<\/strong> There have been 5 partnership agreements
                                         since 1990:<\/li>\n

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                                      \n\u25e6\tConstruction of the clinic (1992)<\/ol>\n
                                        \n\u25e6\tKAP mass-data public health study (2005)<\/ol>\n
                                          \n\u25e6\tCreation of Corps of 40 Community Health Workers (2006)<\/ol>\n
                                            \n\u25e6\tPost Earthquake Partnership to export Surmang Model of Rural Health as a Sustainable
                                               Prototype. (2010)<\/ol>\n
                                              \n\u25e6\tRural Health Festival (2011) <\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                                              Significant buy-in from stake holders based on purposefully leaning into local culture: \u25e6 One ethnic group \u201497% Khampa Tibetan \u25e6 One language, Khampa Tibetan \u25e6 Almost total illiteracy in the Tibetan language \u25e6 Poverty: about \u00a51RMB\/day income (15\u00a2 US). \u25e6 Rural\/agricultural based: nomadic yak herders, farmers, and monastics. \u25e6 No public transportation, no individual ownership of cars, trucks. \u25e6 Traditional. Majority… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"mycustompage.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1336","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.surmang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1336"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.surmang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.surmang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.surmang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.surmang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.surmang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"http:\/\/www.surmang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1336\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.surmang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}