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Health Care Needs Lifeline: Analysis of processes in and around Delhi reveals patients treated indifferently
A business consultant studying opportunities finds that patients, irrespective of their class, financial status or origin, are viewed as potential income by too many health care service providers.
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Tapping the Network to Fight Poverty: How targeting influential leaders can increase financial innovation uptake
Whether you measure it by Twitter followers or by how crowded your kitchen is at dinnertime, it’s clear that some people have larger social networks than others. And a few individuals invariably emerge as central points of contact for their larger social groups. Jake Kendall of Gates Foundation discusses innovative research suggesting that these network “hubs” can propel the diffusion of financial innovations at the BoP.
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Health Education That Sticks: Growing from within can be key to changing communities
Roots of Health educates women, young mothers and children, and has found that when this education "sticks," it changes people and even communities. The best way to achieve that goal, ROH maintains, is to grow from within each community, starting on a very personal level.
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- Education, Health Care
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To treat innovation ills, remove funding roadblocks
The effects of the federal shutdown, combined with budget cuts implemented this year as a result of sequestration, pose a significant barrier to healthcare innovation in both the public and private sectors.
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- Education, Health Care
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Malnutrition is biggest global health problem, Gates Foundation exec tells CU students
Malnutrition plays a major role in the deaths each year of 6.6 million children under 5 years of age, a global health expert told Creighton University premed students Tuesday.
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User Participation: The Secret to Successful Prototyping
This is the final post in a three-part series from Grameen Foundation that has discussed designing products and services for poor people. In this post, Tanya Rabourn reviews how to involve the user in the prototyping process to ensure a financial product that will truly serve their needs.
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Calling Global Health Innovators: Accelerator designed to help ‘bright spots’ reach scale
A new partnership has the goal of developing innovative solutions to global development challenges. They’re looking for six new entrepreneurs to join their second cohort in January, with an application deadline of Nov. 1.
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