The Burundi Heart Centre: From concept to design

Burundi is one of the world's poorest nations, which is also reflected in its relative lack of cardiac facilities, particularly those catering to young children and adults. The authors discuss current efforts to build “The Burundi Heart Centre” to help address this challenge. In particular, the...

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Autores principales: Backhaus, Julia, Yacoub, Lisa, Kambaris, Angelique, Wright, Gavin, Yacoub, Magdi H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals 2015
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Global Health
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4615898/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26535222
http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/gcsp.2015.22
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author Backhaus, Julia
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Kambaris, Angelique
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description Burundi is one of the world's poorest nations, which is also reflected in its relative lack of cardiac facilities, particularly those catering to young children and adults. The authors discuss current efforts to build “The Burundi Heart Centre” to help address this challenge. In particular, they highlight how the project can act as a case study for a sustainable architecture that involves local people and uses locally available materials in a contemporary and innovative way.
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spelling pubmed-46158982015-11-03 The Burundi Heart Centre: From concept to design Backhaus, Julia Yacoub, Lisa Kambaris, Angelique Wright, Gavin Yacoub, Magdi H Glob Cardiol Sci Pract Global Health Burundi is one of the world's poorest nations, which is also reflected in its relative lack of cardiac facilities, particularly those catering to young children and adults. The authors discuss current efforts to build “The Burundi Heart Centre” to help address this challenge. In particular, they highlight how the project can act as a case study for a sustainable architecture that involves local people and uses locally available materials in a contemporary and innovative way. Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals 2015-07-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4615898/ /pubmed/26535222 http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/gcsp.2015.22 Text en © 2015 Backhaus, Yacoub, Kambaris, Wright, Yacoub, licensee Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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