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Want to Succeed in Health Care? Find the Right Price, Place and Partners
Innovations in Healthcare's search for its newest cohort of innovators included more than 180 private-sector organizations and uncovered several trends in technology, investment and strategies to address chronic disease. The top organizations illustrated three broad ideas in market-based health care: the right price, partners and partners.
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Weekly Roundup: Grading Super Bowl Ads, Teaching Social Entrepreneurship, Fact-Checking Global Health
Three commercials at this Sunday's Super Bowl 50 come from financial services providers focused on customers who can’t afford a ticket to the game. We grade the three ads in terms of how effectively they present the inclusive elements of these companies' brands, discuss a new school for social entrepreneurs, and explore a new fact-checking initiative for global health in this roundup.
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Investing in Detroit’s Comeback: Optimism & Challenges on the Road to Inclusive Growth
Detroit’s comeback story is replacing the apocalyptic headlines of recent memory. Thanks to new investment, thousands of new streetlights are on and blight is being tackled at a faster pace than ever before. But fundamental questions remain: Will redevelopment in Detroit lead to equitable growth? Will the city's lower-income and working-class residents who have lived there for decades continue to be a significant part of Detroit’s rich culture, history and vibrancy? These are questions that are being asked in urban areas across the country, says Bradford Frost, director of the Detroit Initiative.
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How to Make New TB Technology More Accessible to the Private Health Sector
Dr. Madhukar Pai, citing research about tuberculosis testing that he recently helped publish in The Lancet Global Health, lays out some of the strategies that might lead to more consistent access and pricing among private TB health care providers worldwide.
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Adapting to Climate Change (Part 1): Health Care
Climate change has led to an increase in vector-borne diseases, primarily impacting the world's poor. The Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network supports various private-sector solutions to this problem, and Intellecap is supporting these interventions and mapping pilot project results across various sectors.
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- Health Care
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WASH Can’t Be Achieved Without Business
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) created the WASH Pledge, in which business leaders agree to provide clean water, safe toilets and good hygiene practices in all their workplaces under direct company control. Sara Traubel of WBCSD explains why: Universal access to WASH simply cannot be achieved without business.
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- Health Care
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Filling the Funding Gap in ‘Pay for Success’
Pay for Success is a promising tool to measurably improve the lives of people in need and address the gap in funding for social programs, says Eileen Neely of Living Cities. It leverages private and philanthropic investors to fund preventative social programs, and the government only repays them for successful outcomes. But according to Neely, there are some concerns about upfront costs that could limit the scalability of the model. She discusses a possible solution in this post.
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Seven Wishes from Seven Thought Leaders for Financial Inclusion in 2016
2015 was an important year for the world of financial inclusion. To better understand and build on the year's successes, BRAC approached the Microfinance CEO Working Group to inquire about their wishes for financial inclusion over the coming year. Here’s what seven industry thought leaders shared with them.
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