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Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Global Health

2014-09-09 · collab / interview · John, Bill Gates · 2:26 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Global development · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: guest or collab, recurring series, on location, heavy topic

In a bonus conversation filmed at an Ethiopian health center, Bill Gates tells John that primary health care and vaccines have sharply cut child deaths, and argues that health is the central lever for a poor country to escape the poverty trap.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Tuesday bonus video: conversations with Bill Gates filmed in Ethiopia, posted every Tuesday for about a month

  • ★★ John says he filmed several conversations with Bill Gates in Ethiopia and will upload them every Tuesday for about a month, a couple of hours before his regular Vlogbrothers video. — 00:00:08 · Vlogbrothers

00:00:17 — John asks Gates what he saw: primary health facilities cut child death from ~25% to ~5%; vaccine logistics; health posts; vaccination coverage

  • ★★★ Bill Gates: Gates says primary health care facilities are how childhood death was brought down from about 25% of all children to about 5%. — 00:00:29 · child mortality
  • ★★ Bill Gates: Gates says getting every vaccine to every child is really hard: vaccines must be kept cold, and most poor children live in rural areas with poor roads and few trained workers. — 00:00:37 · vaccine
  • ★★ Bill Gates: Gates says Ethiopia created a tiered system with a health post at the lowest level and health centers like the one where they are filming. — 00:00:48
  • ★★★ Bill Gates: Gates says vaccination rates are still under 30% in pastoral regions where people move around, about 75% in the rest of Ethiopia, with a plan to reach 90%. — 00:00:53 · vaccine

00:01:08 — How we know: child death statistics and vaccines; development, sanitation and food; fewer births; health as the central thing

  • ★★★ Bill Gates: Asked how we know care drove the drop, Gates says poor countries' statistics are poor except child deaths; deaths were very high, and vaccines against a few infectious diseases cut them a lot. — 00:01:18 · child mortality, vaccine
  • ★★ Bill Gates: Gates says many surviving children don't fully develop physically or mentally; that requires lowering the disease burden and getting good sanitation and good food. — 00:01:39
  • ★★★ Bill Gates: Gates says that as more children survive, mothers choose to have fewer children, making feeding, educating and employing people achievable, so a country gets out of the poverty trap. — 00:01:53
  • ★★★ Bill Gates: Gates says health is not the only thing but the central thing a country must get right, or it cannot keep its children alive and support itself. (hedged) — 00:02:09 · global health

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Central: Bill Gates · child mortality · demographic transition · Ethiopia · global health · primary health care · vaccine

Also: cycle of poverty · Health Extension Program · infectious disease · malnutrition · sanitation · stunted growth

Only in the description or credits: Microsoft

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