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Viva la Revolucion?: What can other countries learn from Cuba’s health care model?
There are no shortage of reasons to be critical of communism, or of the Cuban government. And free enterprise brings innovative solutions to poverty and health care delivery that top-down systems can’t match. But Cuba’s health care system has managed to deliver impressive results with very limited resources. In this Q&A and presentation, Dr. Peter Bourne discusses the Cuban model, and what developing (and developed) countries could learn from it.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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How solar panels are leading the fight against malaria
Kenyan island aims to become free of the disease thanks to solar-powered, insecticide-free mosquito traps
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- Energy, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health, solar
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Doctors on Wheels: Projeto CIES brings mobile clinics to Brazil
Brazil has a strong public health care system, but it’s plagued by overcrowding and out-dated equipment. And though it provides virtually universal access to primary care, it has lagged at delivering specialized care. Projeto CIES was founded to deliver prompt, privately-run specialty care in collaboration with the public sector, through mobile clinics. CHMI’s Rose Reis talks with Dr. Roberto Kikawa, the physician who started the initiative.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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We’re Not Prepared For China’s Deadly Bird Flu
In Asia, more than 120 people have been sickened, and 23 are dead, from a potent strain of bird flu that has the frightening markings of a potential pandemic strain.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- public health
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6 Canadian game-changing ideas for global health care
A Ziploc bag filled with $5 worth of tools to save newborn babies’ lives in third world countries.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Entrepreneurs say the FDA is killing medical innovation
Chandra Duggirala, maker of an experimental device for type two diabetes, is on the verge of giving up.
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- Health Care
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“Can You Heal Me Now? Good”: Mobile technology innovations in health care
Between 2000 and 2012, mobile subscriptions skyrocketed from less than 1 billion to well over 6 billion. Nearly 75 percent of the world’s population was using mobile phones in 2012—the vast majority in the developing world. And more than 30 billion mobile apps were downloaded in 2011. The growing reach of mobile technology means that global health care is ripe for innovation - here are a few examples.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- public health
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Vaccines shunned by some as others struggle for access
For parents in Somalia, giving their children immunizations is not a choice.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health