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Part 2: What Really Happens at a BoP Clinic?: A new study shows surprising results
Do trained primary care providers reliably provide better care than untrained ones in BoP communities? That’s one of the questions explored by Jishnu Das, Senior Economist in the Development Research Group at The World Bank, in a recent Health Affairs study on provider quality in India. In Part 2 of his interview with CHMI’s Rose Reis, Das talks about the limitations of existing data on BoP health care quality, the lessons of the study - and its surprising findings on the relative quality of untrained providers.
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Part 1: What Really Happens at a BoP Clinic?: A new study shows surprising results
Jishnu Das, Senior Economist in the Development Research Group at The World Bank, recently co-authored a Health Affairs study on quality of primary care in India. In Part 1 of a two-part interview, Rose Reis of CHMI asks Das about the study’s unique methods and disturbing findings.
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The dirty little secret for making better vaccines
A menu of 61 new strains of genetically engineered bacteria may mean better vaccines for diseases like flu, whooping cough, cholera, and HPV.
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‘Game-Changing’ Flu Vaccines Not Far Off
Today's flu shots aren't perfect -- but a "universal" flu vaccine that works better and lasts longer may not be far off, health experts say.
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Fear Factor: Should we scare people into healthy behavior?
Fear-based marketing is a controversial topic - especially when graphic images are involved. Yet many health care organizations and advocates have used it to attract attention and change health behaviors. But is graphic fear-based marketing effective - and ethical? And should it be put to use more in BoP communities?
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Deal leaves risks for global health to fall or be pushed off the cliff
Will the U.S. government's fiscal cliff deal mean steep drops in global health and research funding?
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Doctors Without Training: Can regulatory innovations close the quality gap in BoP health care?
In many countries, shortfalls in health care quality are not the exception but the rule. In one rural Indian state, for example, a recent paper found that 67 percent of sampled health care providers reported no medical qualifications at all. But a number of regulatory innovations promise to address this problem - often by developing market-based alternatives to government regulation.
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There is a Fortune at the BoP: So why aren’t large corporations capturing it?
The first generation of writings on the "bottom of the pyramid" were based on the premise that large corporations are better positioned to address the market. But the experience of recent years shows in practice, large corporations have not always responded enthusiastically to the challenge.
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