I haven’t got this far in terms of estimating the costs of doing it at a bigger scale—after this trial I was probably a little less enthusiastic about the idea than before I started to be honest so I probably won’t go ahead and do that right now anyway.
I don’t think I’m a person with the minimum required medical knowledge at all though, it would be harder for others but doable.
The adverse effects you speak of is certainly a real risk but I don’t think one of the biggest factors. I think the approach would be to only accept poor subsistance farmers from rural areas who were super unlikely to be able to afford treatment counterfactually—my instinct would be to just exclude anyone who lived in any kind of city or even township. I think helping individuals like this could only remain cost-effective if people were identified by our agents, not people “applying” or coming to ask for help or anything like that.
Thanks Gewind for the insights
I haven’t got this far in terms of estimating the costs of doing it at a bigger scale—after this trial I was probably a little less enthusiastic about the idea than before I started to be honest so I probably won’t go ahead and do that right now anyway.
I don’t think I’m a person with the minimum required medical knowledge at all though, it would be harder for others but doable.
The adverse effects you speak of is certainly a real risk but I don’t think one of the biggest factors. I think the approach would be to only accept poor subsistance farmers from rural areas who were super unlikely to be able to afford treatment counterfactually—my instinct would be to just exclude anyone who lived in any kind of city or even township. I think helping individuals like this could only remain cost-effective if people were identified by our agents, not people “applying” or coming to ask for help or anything like that.