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Hawaii has developed well-recognized and highly-effective programs to deal
with many of the basic problems confronted by the Marshall Islands.
Those
problems are basically a maze of anthropologic and sociologic characteristics
determining the health status of the society and each individual. We feel
a multidisciplinary approach to restructuring the health care system will
be the nost cost/effective method in the long run.
The University of Hawaii
has expressed an interest in discussing this concept with the BNL team.
We
feel a coordinated effort by BNL and the University of Hawaii, working with
the existing Trust Territory medical program could achieve most of the goals
of Option D.
Such a program could be developed incrementally, under con~
tract, as specific problems were identified.
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