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Advancing Healthcare With the BoP Series: Dial 104 for Health
A housewife in rural Andhra Pradesh, India has persistent lower back pain. Like 86 percent of other villages in AP, hers lies more than 3 km from the nearest hospital. Before 2007, she would, like most rural residents, be resigned to seeing a local, untrained doctor when her pain worsened. Today, she simply dials 104 from her mobile phone.
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Learning From Narayana’s Lean Model to Scale Services
Narayana Hrudayalaya performs 12 percent India’s total heart - more than heart than most hospitals in the world. Yet, by following a lean model that would make Toyota envious, Dr. Devi Shetty and other physicians have radically reduced surgical costs, while mortality rates remain consistently lower than some of the best hospitals in New York.
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Advancing Healthcare With the BoP: To Emerging Markets and Back Again
What happens when a large U.S.-based multinational company wants to get a product to market in the BoP? For Pfizer and GE, the approach is two-fold: part market-based and part philanthropic but both closely linked to market objectives of the firms.
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Healthcare Series: Integrated Healthcare for the BoP, the Role of Enterprise, Government
Healthcare delivery continues to be a focus for governments as well as BoP organizations given the numerous gaps in providing services and products to the the poor. Living Goods is one enterprise working to sustainably deliver healthcare through micro-franchising to distribute low-cost products door-to-door in the developing world.
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New Resource: CGAP Launches Branchless Banking Database
The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) just announced the launch of a brand new resource for those interested in the growth of mobile money around the world.
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- Education
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Healthcare Series: Combining Facilities and Mobile Innovations to Deliver Better Care
Over the past year, I have become increasingly familiar with new mobile health tools that are often not a healthcare delivery system in and of itself, but a driver within that system - increasing the knowledge, efficiency, evidence-base, user experience, and accessibility.
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Healthcare With the BoP Series: Staying Out of the Medical Poverty Trap In Pakistan
An adolescent golf champion who grew up to be Pakistan?s first female cardiologist, Sania Nishtar wields influence in forums from the World Health Organization to the Clinton Global Initiative. Through her NGO, Heartfile, she has honed in on one critical barrier to health delivery for the poor: serious shortfalls in financing.
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Advancing Healthcare: Reaching Into Rural Pockets With A Sustainable Model
In much of the developing world, the poor lack access to adequate health care and are particularly vulnerable to the economic impacts of illness. To explore this situation, new models for health care provision are being innovated. This post explores opportunities for private health care initiatives to address unmet needs in remote and rural India.
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