Hundreds of programs profiled by CHMI are using innovative delivery and financing approaches to improve access to quality healthcare for mothers and children.
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 285 million people are visually impaired globally and nearly 40 million are blind. Alarmingly, 90% of these individuals reside in developing countries. While many of these cases—as much as 80%—can be prevented or cured, high prices and low availability of eye care services transform mild impairments into irreversible blindness.
Learning Across Borders: What a Kenyan Eye Hospital Learned When They Visited Nigeria
With over 450 programs working in primary care, this topic features a variety of innovative programs. The topics page highlights these programs and highlights demographic, funding financing approaches used to improve access, quality, and affordability of primary healthcare.
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Extending health care to Nigeria’s large and diverse population is an enormous challenge, with persistent instability, weak infrastructure and low government capacity preventing health services from reaching society’s most vulnerable. In the midst of these trends, innovators across the country are designing new methods to reach more Nigerians with quality, affordable care.
Working with our regional partner in Pakistan Interactive Research and Development, CHMI is working to enhance collaboration between innovators. Explore in depth how programs in Pakistan are utilizing ICT to improve healthcare services to rural populations, or how micro-insurance programs like Naya Jeevan are providing affordable insurance to low income populations.
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The Philippines is emerging as a center for health market innovations in Southeast Asia, with much of this due to government initiated or supported programs.
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South African social enterprises such as Unjani are providing primary health care services at an affordable price to under-served communities. Unjani’s clinics are made in South Africa from converted second hand shipping containers and can be created, from order to commission, in just four weeks. Take an in depth look at South African programs profiled on CHMI, with emerging models around primary care, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis.
Kenya's emerging models include cost efficient emergency transportation by the Donkey Ambulance Project, a wide array of health service chains, such as Penda Health, and a number of unique remote diagnostic tools. Use the Kenya Topics Page to explore in depth how innovators are tackling Tuberculosis, HIV, AIDS and MNCH issues.
Learning Across Borders: What a Kenyan Eye Hospital Learned When They Visited Nigeria
Informal providers are utilized for a wide variety of health interventions and often represent the first point of care for patients, especially for the poor.
Which programs are actually “working”—achieving the kind of health and financial protection results that are important to national and global health policymakers, donors, investors, and other program implementers?
Fragile states are home to over one-third of the world’s poor people and experience an unusually high incidence of disease. Worldwide, these countries account for more than a third of maternal deaths, more than half of the deaths of children under age five, and over a third of the deaths from HIV/AIDS.
UN “Nothing but Nets Champion Conference”: Rolling back the Burden of Disease from Malaria
Mobile money describes financial transactions that are conducted using a mobile phone, where value is stored virtually (e-money) in an account associated with a SIM card.
UN “Nothing but Nets Champion Conference”: Rolling back the Burden of Disease from Malaria
Social franchising is an approach to organizing private providers into networks that deliver specific health services under a common brand, with a promise of quality assurance.
Making space for improvement by looking critically at your own practices
Licensing and accrediting programs aim to improve the quality of a wide range of health professions and facilities from midwives and physicians to pharmaceutical vendors and producers.
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From a basic bicycle carrying health workers and medicine into rural villages to a fully mobile cardiac catheterization lab, CHMI profiles close to 80 mobile care programs. Mobile care—the delivery of services by health workers on the move—holds particular promise in extending health care to populations beyond the reach of static facilities.
Making space for improvement by looking critically at your own practices
ICT Programs utilize technology to enable remotely delivered care, communication, and exchange of medical information (e.g., telemedicine, call center, cell phone technology, biometric system, etc.).
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Micro- or community health insurance offers low-income people protection against specific health issues in exchange for regular premium payments, proportional to the likelihood and cost of the risk involved.
Healthcare supply chains can impact the quality, affordability, and accessibility of a given medication. Ensuring access to medicine—defined as having medicines continuously available, affordable, and geographically accessible at health facilities or medicine outlets—is an essential part of healthcare access.
Making space for improvement by looking critically at your own practices
Hundreds of programs profiled by CHMI are using innovative delivery and financing approaches to improve access to quality healthcare for mothers and children.
Innovative programs are using new approaches to improve TB case detection, reduce diagnostic delays, and lower the cost of care.
Malaria programs are using new approaches to improve access to preventive therapies, diagnostic testing, and quality-assured treatment.
Mental health programs are decreasing stigma to seeking care for mental health issues and increasing access.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 285 million people are visually impaired globally and nearly 40 million are blind. Alarmingly, 90% of these individuals reside in developing countries. While many of these cases—as much as 80%—can be prevented or cured, high prices and low availability of eye care services transform mild impairments into irreversible blindness.
With over 450 programs working in primary care, this topic features a variety of innovative programs. The topics page highlights these programs and highlights demographic, funding financing approaches used to improve access, quality, and affordability of primary healthcare.
Private pharmacies, drug stores, and drug sellers are often the first point of contact for healthcare in low- and middle-income countries.
India has become a vibrant testing ground for health market innovations that can meet the needs of its large and diverse population.
Extending health care to Nigeria’s large and diverse population is an enormous challenge, with persistent instability, weak infrastructure and low government capacity preventing health services from reaching society’s most vulnerable. In the midst of these trends, innovators across the country are designing new methods to reach more Nigerians with quality, affordable care.
Working with our regional partner in Pakistan Interactive Research and Development, CHMI is working to enhance collaboration between innovators. Explore in depth how programs in Pakistan are utilizing ICT to improve healthcare services to rural populations, or how micro-insurance programs like Naya Jeevan are providing affordable insurance to low income populations.
The Philippines is emerging as a center for health market innovations in Southeast Asia, with much of this due to government initiated or supported programs.
South African social enterprises such as Unjani are providing primary health care services at an affordable price to under-served communities. Unjani’s clinics are made in South Africa from converted second hand shipping containers and can be created, from order to commission, in just four weeks. Take an in depth look at South African programs profiled on CHMI, with emerging models around primary care, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis.
Kenya's emerging models include cost efficient emergency transportation by the Donkey Ambulance Project, a wide array of health service chains, such as Penda Health, and a number of unique remote diagnostic tools. Use the Kenya Topics Page to explore in depth how innovators are tackling Tuberculosis, HIV, AIDS and MNCH issues.
Informal providers are utilized for a wide variety of health interventions and often represent the first point of care for patients, especially for the poor.
Which programs are actually “working”—achieving the kind of health and financial protection results that are important to national and global health policymakers, donors, investors, and other program implementers?
Fragile states are home to over one-third of the world’s poor people and experience an unusually high incidence of disease. Worldwide, these countries account for more than a third of maternal deaths, more than half of the deaths of children under age five, and over a third of the deaths from HIV/AIDS.
Mobile money describes financial transactions that are conducted using a mobile phone, where value is stored virtually (e-money) in an account associated with a SIM card.
Social franchising is an approach to organizing private providers into networks that deliver specific health services under a common brand, with a promise of quality assurance.
Licensing and accrediting programs aim to improve the quality of a wide range of health professions and facilities from midwives and physicians to pharmaceutical vendors and producers.
From a basic bicycle carrying health workers and medicine into rural villages to a fully mobile cardiac catheterization lab, CHMI profiles close to 80 mobile care programs. Mobile care—the delivery of services by health workers on the move—holds particular promise in extending health care to populations beyond the reach of static facilities.
ICT Programs utilize technology to enable remotely delivered care, communication, and exchange of medical information (e.g., telemedicine, call center, cell phone technology, biometric system, etc.).
Micro- or community health insurance offers low-income people protection against specific health issues in exchange for regular premium payments, proportional to the likelihood and cost of the risk involved.
Healthcare supply chains can impact the quality, affordability, and accessibility of a given medication. Ensuring access to medicine—defined as having medicines continuously available, affordable, and geographically accessible at health facilities or medicine outlets—is an essential part of healthcare access.