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Want to Succeed in Health Care? Find the Right Price, Place and Partners
Innovations in Healthcare's search for its newest cohort of innovators included more than 180 private-sector organizations and uncovered several trends in technology, investment and strategies to address chronic disease. The top organizations illustrated three broad ideas in market-based health care: the right price, partners and partners.
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- Health Care
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Breastfeeding could add $300 billion into the global economy
The Lancet Breastfeeding Series finds that globally, the costs of lower cognitive ability associated with not breastfeeding amount to more than $300 billion each year, a figure comparable to the entire global pharmaceutical market.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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India sets an example in subsidised TB diagnosis
There is a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy TB scenario in India. Of the 12 high-burden countries where the private sector is a major player in providing health care, the Indian private sector offers the cheapest price for the WHO-approved Xpert MTB/RIF, a molecular test for diagnosing TB. India also has the highest number of private labs offering the test, with 113 labs offering it at a subsidised rate.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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WASH Can’t Be Achieved Without Business
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) created the WASH Pledge, in which business leaders agree to provide clean water, safe toilets and good hygiene practices in all their workplaces under direct company control. Sara Traubel of WBCSD explains why: Universal access to WASH simply cannot be achieved without business.
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- Health Care
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Gavi, India PM discuss strategic vaccine partnership
Gavi, a global vaccine alliance, proposes to have a new strategic partnership with India for 2016-2021, which will see further fund support of up to $500 million to accelerate the introduction of modern vaccines for all children in the country.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Ghana Power Woes Present Vicious Cycle
The ongoing power crisis is posing an even larger health disaster it is not certain if Ghana would be able to deal with.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Turning Flower Pots into Life-savers
In 2009, Philip Wilson led his Guatemala-based organization’s transition from an NGO to a social business, and since then its customer base has expanded dramatically. Ecofiltro found that giving its water filters away was not scalable or financially sustainable – but that ensuring his customers' dignity was.
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- Health Care
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WHO Calls for Public Health Agenda at Paris Climate Talks
The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for a strong agreement to curb global emissions at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris this week.
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- Environment, Health Care