Articles by Lisa Smith
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Guest Articles
Friday
January 12
2018Helping Low-Income Patients Breathe Easier: Three Solutions to Oxygen Market Failures
For a child with severe pneumonia—and every other patient struggling for breath—access to oxygen is a matter of life or death. And even though oxygen is just as important to hospitals and clinics as electricity and water, market failures stand between oxygen and the people who need it. While medicines and vaccines are its primary focus, the global NGO PATH recently zeroed in on how to improve oxygen supplies in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Health Care
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Monday
September 23
2013TB Is Changing: The approach to its treatment must, too
The Indian government has made progress providing free TB diagnosis and treatment to all patients in the public health sector. But more than half of all Indians seek initial care for most health concerns, including TB, in the private health sector, which has made less progress improving access to quality TB diagnosis and medicines.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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Tuesday
April 9
2013Hypertension Gets its Moment: Following World Health Day, what’s ahead for a global response?
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have come to the forefront of global health discussions - hypertension was even the focus of the 2013 World Health Day. But in spite of the attention, there’s still limited access to NCD care and treatments in developing countries, and limited public awareness of their symptoms. As the global health community seeks solutions to these problems, can the tactics of developed countries like the U.S. serve as a model?
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Wednesday
March 27
2013The 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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- public health
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Thursday
March 21
2013Shaping a Market for Nutrient Economies – Part 2: The value of partnerships
As we’ve seen in Ashoka Changemakers’ Nutrients for All campaign, there are several markets involved in bringing nutrient products to consumers. Interventions in these different markets can have a major impact, starting at the earliest stages in a product’s development, and they often involve multiple partners. This post, the second in a two-part series, shows how these interventions work in practice.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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Tuesday
March 19
2013Shaping a Market for Nutrient Economies – Part 1: The zinc conundrum
The concept of supply and demand seems pretty straightforward: consumers have a need, companies compete to meet it, and prices settle at a point where supply matches demand. But what happens when a clear need for a product doesn’t spark a thriving market? WDI’s Lisa Smith examines this conundrum as it relates to zinc treatment for diarrhea - and outlines supply-side interventions that could help.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Tuesday
January 22
2013A Deal with the Devil?: Should health care advocates partner with “Big Food”?
BoP countries are facing a growing epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes, cancers and cardiovascular diseases. But though global health care organizations are responding, they can’t effectively tackle this epidemic without addressing the unhealthy foods and drinks that contribute to it. But what happens when the "Big Food" corporations whose products fuel the NCD epidemic also fund and advise the global health organizations that are fighting it?
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- Health Care
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Thursday
December 6
2012McMedicine: Is Social Franchising the Next Big Thing in BoP Health Care?
Around half of all people in developing countries turn to the private sector for health care – even though public facilities are generally cheaper or even free. Can health care franchises maintain the qualities that make private clinics so popular - while also keeping prices low?
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