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Health Builders (HB) is a non-profit organization that uses systems-level interventions and infrastructure development to enable comprehensive primary health care for communities that need it. Its mission is to use business management principles to strengthen health systems and build healthy communities. HB believes that the best way to improve health care is to address the structural challenges that prevent it from operating efficiently. Its goal is to provide health facilities with the management frameworks, strong infrastructure and basic resources to operate efficiently and become sustainable. HB works with an exit strategy in mind .〔 〕 It helps communities to build their own health systems, providing the knowledge, materials and technical assistance to provide primary care. In doing so, HB aims to not only ensure locally managed health care, but also give local communities an opportunity to prosper. ==History== Health Builders' work began in 2007 by Josh Ruxin and was originally under the name Rwanda Works before changing it to Health Builders in 2013. The organization was created on the premise that by applying efficiency-focused business principles to health problems, resources could be maximized, people would be healthier, and poor economies would begin to thrive. In 2015, Mr. Ruxin stepped down and Tyler Nelson was appointed as the new Executive Director of HB 〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 website = http://healthbuilders.org/ ) 〕 . Since its inception, HB has partnered with the Government of Rwanda and other local partners to improve Rwanda's public health system through hands-on technical assistance, supportive supervision, and management training to public health facilities in need. In 2008, HB expanded its services to include infrastructural development and technological implementation .〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Developing Health Infrastructure - Fact Sheet ) 〕 HB saw how many public health facilities needed basic facilities like stable walls and roofs, sources of clean water or reliable electricity. It considered these resources critical to health centers' success and, in response, began to provide them alongside its management services. Today, Health Builders through its partners has fortified primary care services for over 2 million people across Rwanda and provided health care access to 170,000 people formerly without it .〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Health Builders」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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