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The Quest for Integrated Health Care: The RHIN project’s model for rural health integration
Integration has become a global trend in health care reform, and for good reason. Many BoP and middle-income health systems struggle with problems like service delivery duplication, low continuity of care and patient dissatisfaction. Integration of services at every stage of health promotion could address these issues. In Namibia, Geneva Global’s Rural Health Integrated Network project seeks to create a strategy for health systems integration that could provide a model for global practice.
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- Health Care
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Nutrients: the connecting thread of global health
Is there a thread that connects the world’s gravest health issues, such as malnutrition, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, maternal health and undernourishment during pregnancy, and malaria? You might be surprised to discover that something as simple as nutrients, which are also very complex, can be the connecting thread for all global health concerns.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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Striking a Match: Collaborating toward impactful research
In June 2012, the Global Financial Inclusion Initiative at IPA launched the Citi IPA Financial Capability Research Fund, a program supported by the Citi Foundation to incubate and rigorously study products and product-linked interventions to improve the financial capability of the poor. Our next matchmaking program will take place on May 29-30 in Lima, Peru.
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- Education
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Featured Job: Acumen Fund seeking a Business Development Manager – Bay Area
Acumen is looking for a Business Development Manager based in the Bay Area to join the next phase of our fundraising and growth strategy.
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Big Data = Better Global Health?: What impact will the Global Burden of Disease study have?
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study is the most ambitious effort to date to quantify the world’s health status. Involving 486 collaborators from 302 institutions in 50 countries, the study has been compared to the Human Genome Project in terms of potential impact. But health experts have criticized it as nontransparent and lacking accountability. What role will the GBD Study play in global health policymaking - and how can it be improved?
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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D-Rev’s “Brilliance” Goes Global: CEO Krista Donaldson on designing products for the poor – and how to get businesses to sell them
Last week D-Rev announced that its Brilliance medical device for treating newborns with severe jaundice is now available for the global market. In this interview, D-Rev CEO Krista Donaldson explains how the non-profit makes a business case to manufacturers and distributors.
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- Health Care
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What’s Next for Impact Investing – Facing Market Realities: Why the environment is the core of impact investing in China
When I first started China Impact Fund, I thought that impact investing in China should give equal weight to the country’s social and environmental issues, just as what my peers do in most other emerging markets. As I am relocating back to China, my thinking evolved toward environmental for several key reasons.
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- Environment, Investing
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- impact investing
