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Seeking Scalable Solutions to Promote Nutrient-Rich Food: Insights from young innovators in Ashoka Changemakers’ Nutrients for All idea exchange
To have widespread, affordable access to nutrient-rich food, we need to work with the food industry, and take advantage of advances in science and technology. But how can this work in practice? Ashoka Changemakers and Thought for Food hosted an idea exchange with several young innovators, who discussed their work and the challenges of making nutritious food widely available.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Bribery Serves as Life-Support for Chinese Hospitals
Bribery is the lubricant that helps keep China’s public hospitals running, and the health system would struggle to function without illegal payments to poorly paid doctors and administrators, say medical practitioners and industry experts.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- public health
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The Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action: Using mobile technology to improve maternal health access in South Africa
According to UNICEF, 4,300 mothers die in South Africa every year due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth, 20,000 babies are stillborn and another 23,000 die in their first month of life. In total, 75,000 children do not make it to their fifth birthday.
To address these challenges, mobile technologies are providing women with access to life-saving maternal health information.- Categories
- Health Care, Technology
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- public health
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Diagnostics by Phone: uChek’s smartphone solution provides urinalysis everywhere
In rural areas at the BoP, patients often have to trek a long way to their nearest health center and diagnostics lab. So they only visit the doctor if they’re really sick, and rarely go for lower-priority services like screenings and preventive care. That’s why Biosense Technologies has developed uChek, a diagnostic app that converts a smartphone into a lab urinanalyzer that can screen for about 25 medical conditions.
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- Health Care, Technology
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The BoP Century?: The exciting (or scary) implications of demographics for global health and social enterprise (Bi-weekly Checkup, 7/20/13)
By 2100, Nigeria is projected to have a population of almost 1 billion. Other sub-Saharan African countries will also experience spectacular growth, and the population of developing countries will far surpass that of the rest of the world. We explore these possible changes and their exciting (or disturbing) implications in NextBillion Health Care’s Bi-weekly Checkup.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Pledge Guarantee for Health: Using innovative financing to make aid work better, faster and smarter
To achieve the Millennium Development Goals, aid agencies must make every dollar count. But according to estimates, the volatility of development aid costs as much as 28 cents of every dollar spent. In this post, Ariel Pablos-Méndez of USAID discusses the Pledge Guarantee for Health, a simple, innovative financing tool that can help make development aid work better, faster and smarter.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- public health
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Enlisting Quacks in the Battle Against TB: An alarming study from Lepra highlights the need to train and regulate informal providers
Tuberculosis is second only to HIV/AIDS as the world’s deadliest infectious disease - and improper treatment can increase its drug resistance. But alarming research from the international charity Lepra suggests that proper treatment is rare among the informal providers common at the BoP. Lepra spoke with NextBillion Health Care about the need to enlist these providers in the fight against TB.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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Beyond the Clinic: A holistic approach to creating community health in Ecuador
Most health care systems are structured to treat illness. APROFE, an Ecuadorian non-profit, focuses on preventing it by creating thriving communities. Its outreach programs include everything from health education and preventive care to entrepreneurial development, aiming to make communities – and the people in them – healthy, happy and prosperous.
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- Education, Health Care