Blogs tagged: Resources

New ideas to save the lives of women and children

A report on mHealth programs from UN Innovation Working Group

Problem: High maternal mortality due to a lack of prenatal care in rural Bangladesh.

Solution: Grameen Intel's Laptop-based software for identifying high-risk pregnancies, tracking patients, allocating resources and training community health workers.

Impact: Increased coverage of pregnant women with prenatal care; half of assessed women to date have high-risk pregnancies.

Public-Private Engagement for Better Health in Africa

New World Bank Group Report Assesses the Good, the Bad, and the Innovative

Representatives from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, the IFC and World Bank Group

This post can also be found on NextBillion, as part of a series on health care delivery with the BoP.

African governments do not ignore the private sector, as a rule. In Lesotho, the main national hospital is run by a private organization, publicly funded at 80 percent of its budget, provided that it submits health data monthly and follows Ministry of Health accreditation procedures.

March recap: Contests, events & another reason to register on this site

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We sent this update message out to newsletter subscribers this morning. Please note that the email message incorrectly indicated that the CHMI roundtable in Pakistan will be held in Karachi; it will be held in Islamabad.

CHMI’s Pakistan hub at the Asia Foundation is off to a running start. The team has identified a number of innovative health programs in the past month.

UCSF Publishes 2010 Clinical Social Franchising Compendium

The SF4Health group at UCSF recently completed their annual survey of social franchising programs. UCSF Clinical Social Franchising Compendium, 2010. As a CHMI partner, the SF4Health group has contributed a significant number of social franchising programs to the CHMI database.

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Non Communicable Diseases: Not Just for the Rich

On September 19-20, 2011, the UN General Assembly will convene a high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), an affirmation that prevention and control of NCDs is finally reaching the global public health agenda. Often thought of as “...

New on the CHMI Blog: Database at a Glance

Editor’s Note: Starting this month, we will begin presenting cross-sections of the database on the CHMI Blog to underscore trends our programs database is uncovering in countries where the private sector delivers the majority of health care....

Improving Health Markets for the Poor—A Goal Worth Pursuing

We are building the Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI) because we believe that the poor in developing countries deserve high quality health care without having to pay so much that they go deeper into poverty. Improving the performance of...