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Bi-Weekly Checkup (3/29/13): A conversation about everything
Has this ever happened to you? You’re talking about an important global problem – let’s say it’s poor nutrition – with a group of colleagues. You’re focusing on a specific issue – for example, the best way to promote healthy eating in BoP communities. But soon the conversation starts to expand - as soon as you address one problem, another one arises...
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- nutrition, public health
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Accurate TB tests needed in the private sector
More affordable tests should be introduced in the private sector as 70% of Indians seek private medical care for TB.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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The Quest for Integrated Health Care: The RHIN project’s model for rural health integration
Integration has become a global trend in health care reform, and for good reason. Many BoP and middle-income health systems struggle with problems like service delivery duplication, low continuity of care and patient dissatisfaction. Integration of services at every stage of health promotion could address these issues. In Namibia, Geneva Global’s Rural Health Integrated Network project seeks to create a strategy for health systems integration that could provide a model for global practice.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Nutrients: the connecting thread of global health
Is there a thread that connects the world’s gravest health issues, such as malnutrition, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, maternal health and undernourishment during pregnancy, and malaria? You might be surprised to discover that something as simple as nutrients, which are also very complex, can be the connecting thread for all global health concerns.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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Gates explores Ghana’s health progress
The freckled man with the rectangular glasses instantly recognisable to much of the world stood in the West African heat, staring at data that had nothing to do with selling software.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Big Data = Better Global Health?: What impact will the Global Burden of Disease study have?
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study is the most ambitious effort to date to quantify the world’s health status. Involving 486 collaborators from 302 institutions in 50 countries, the study has been compared to the Human Genome Project in terms of potential impact. But health experts have criticized it as nontransparent and lacking accountability. What role will the GBD Study play in global health policymaking - and how can it be improved?
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research