Creating a healthier, more equitable world is inherently woven into our Purpose of advancing the world of health™, as well as our business strategy to identify gaps and provide innovative solutions for challenges that are not currently – or efficiently – being addressed.
We are actively working to advance health access by meeting health systems where they are today to help maximize their ability to provide quality patient care. We are leveraging our capabilities and expertise, establishing public-private partnerships and creating scalable programs that help strengthen health systems. This strategy is reliant on:
Our technology and innovation: BD leverages the global reach of our products, research, solutions, and expertise to help ensure health systems, healthcare workers, and patients have access to life-saving technologies, regardless of geography, demographics, or socioeconomic status.
Our public-private partnerships: BD partners with governments and global humanitarian organizations to help support and advocate for health systems that serve under-represented populations around the world and help create an enabling environment to increase healthcare access.
Our investment in health system strengthening: BD makes investments that build, strengthen, and maintain critical competencies and resources that are needed to improve the delivery of care within under-resourced settings.
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At least half of the world’s population cannot obtain essential health services – with particularly wide gaps in the availability of services in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia.1
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Primary care in low- and middle-income countries often lack sufficient data to target and address critical health weaknesses facing underserved populations. 2
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Groups that have been historically marginalized face barriers to attaining their most healthy lives, including aging infrastructure, healthcare worker shortages, and education, nutrition, and environmental challenges.
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Our health access strategy, and how we are helping meet the needs of vulnerable populations in underserved communities around the world.
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How our culture of inclusion enables us to help drive equity and access across the globe.
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How we are leveraging partnerships across industry, government and nonprofit to help address health disparities facing vulnerable populations in the U.S.
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Our commitment to supporting the BD communities where we live and work.
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How we are working to address health disparities around the globe through partnerships across industry, government and nonprofit.
