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Doctors Without Training: Can regulatory innovations close the quality gap in BoP health care?
In many countries, shortfalls in health care quality are not the exception but the rule. In one rural Indian state, for example, a recent paper found that 67 percent of sampled health care providers reported no medical qualifications at all. But a number of regulatory innovations promise to address this problem - often by developing market-based alternatives to government regulation.
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- Education, Health Care
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- governance, public health, research
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Liberia: Ellen Launches Reports On Women’s Health, World Malaria 2012
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has called on all health partners to identify ways in which, working together, Africa can continue to ensure that the progress made is maintained and enhanced regarding women's health and in combating malaria in the African region.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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S’pore firm and Mongolian government create ‘Medical Silk Road’ to improve healthcare with mobile technology
The Mongolian government has partnered with Singapore’s Borderless Healthcare Group to improve rural healthcare through the use of mobile technology. The initiative is dubbed the ‘Medical Silk Road’.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Providing remote medical care in inaccessible areas
Future of Indian medicare is Telemedicine, opined experts in the field, which is evolving into a promising technological intervention to provide quick and super-specialty medical care to even people residing in a remote place.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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From Darth Vader to Social Innovator: SalaUno’s formula for success
With influences ranging from Aravind Eye Care to low-cost airlines, SalaUno has established itself as one of the most innovative social enterprises in Latin America. Specializing in low-cost cataract surgery and other vision care, it achieved profitability within two months of opening, and its founders have been hailed as some of the region’s top entrepreneurs. In this interview, SalaUno co-founder Javier Okhuysen explains how they did it.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Drug-Resistant Malaria Flares As Funding For Research Tapers
Global health experts worry that a new breed of malaria that has arisen in South Asia could reverse trends in the fight against the disease, since it has proven resistant to the drugs usually used to treat malaria infections.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Prices double as private vaccines flood market
NEW DELHI: The Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) seems to have slipped almost entirely into the grip of the private sector as the government's vaccine institutes that were reopened in February 2010 after being shut down two years ago are yet to contribute in any significant way. In the process, the cost of most vaccines has more than doubled since 2006-07.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Lok Capital buys minority stake in social enterprise Drishti
Firm will use funds to service underserved geographies of Karnataka
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- Health Care, Investing
- Region
- South Asia