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Floating But Not Adrift: Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic Model
For many, Lake Tanganyika may be the most recognizable body of water on Earth – holding 20 percent of the world’s fresh water. But for Dr. Amy Lehman, founder of the Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic, the lake represents much more. In this video interview, Dr. Lehman talks about health care access and education for isolated communities in the region.
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- Health Care
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Bottom Line and Belt Line: Eating Healthy to Solve Malnutrition
Over 1 billion people in the world lack access to adequate food and nutrition while another 1 billion face health risks associated with obesity and overeating. These seemingly bifurcated problems are actually inter-related and reflect the global food imbalance. TFT’s solution aims to addresses these issues by encouraging behavioral changes related to portion size and prompts students, restaurant customers and company employees to think about the global hunger epidemic
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- nutrition
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In Ghana, For-Profit Health Providers Are An Important Source of Care for Rich and Poor Alike
A new comprehensive analysis of Ghana’s health marketplace conducted recently for the World Bank Group should be mandatory reading for health enterprises, analysts, or others keen to enter, expand or study operations in this progressive west African country.
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Best Ideas of 2011: In Praise of Michael Murphy
Michael Murphy is an architect who, unsatisfied with the self-directed benefits of traditional architecture and the opportunities lost in its wake, redefined what an architect is, and how great an impact a built environment can have. He has re-conceived hospital design to better heal the sick people in it, but that’s only part of the story.
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- Health Care
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- product design
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From the ’Last Mile’ to the ’Last Centimeter’
Calls that pharmaceutical companies should make the pills and powders available at low prices are abundant. But that’s where the challenges start - and the solutions, something examined by a soon-to-be-launched Endeva report, "Bringing Medicines to Low-income Markets."
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Building a Business Around Combating Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals
As more businesses enter the BoP, many will need to focus on reducing counterfeiter’s grip on the market. Sproxil is trying to limit that hold on the pharmaceutical market in emerging economies by literally putting the power in the hands of the end consumer through cell phones.
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- Health Care, Technology
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New CHMI Report Highlights 5 Market-Based Health Models to Watch
CHMI looks for programs in multiple countries with the same models or similar goals, services, organizational structures, and operational processes. We’re hunting for the next Aravind-or really the next 50 Aravinds, because the field is moving that fast. Here is a list of 5 health models proliferating around the world during the past decade.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Wedding Bells? A Matchmaking Business Model for Franchise Networks, National Insurance Plans
Franchising private clinics is an exciting approach for improving the quality and affordability of private health services delivered to the poor. A marriage of national health insurance and franchise networks would offer a new vision for health systems in developing countries, in a sustainable model that could dramatically expand access.
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- Health Care
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