scholarly journals Exploring social innovation in health in Central America and the Caribbean

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Josselyn Mothe ◽  
Luis E. Vacaflor ◽  
Diana M. Castro-Arroyave ◽  
Luis Gabriel Cuervo ◽  
Nancy Gore Saravia
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Central America ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Quality Health Care ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Universal Health

Universal health coverage is a public health priority in the Americas. Social innovation in health offers novel solutions to unmet needs, by enabling health care delivery to be more inclusive, affordable, and effective. In 2017, an international collaborative consortium launched an open call for solutions that sought to identify social innovations in health in Central America and the Caribbean. The focus was set on how these solutions can strengthen health care delivery, with emphasis on reducing the impact of neglected transmissible diseases. A crowdsourcing strategy was implemented to identify social innovations in health. These were evaluated by an external panel of experts and practitioners and civil society representing the health and social innovation sectors, based on the appropriateness, innovativeness, and affordability of the solution. The three top-scoring solutions were analyzed through case studies including site visits by a team of investigators. Two key findings emerged from the response to the call: 1) innovative solutions were based on the knowledge and experience of individuals and communities facing adverse situations; 2) this knowledge was shared through health promotion and education, leading to empowerment of the communities. The principal challenges addressed by the solutions were the limited access to quality health care services and failed traditional strategies for vector control. The solutions identified demonstrated how social innovation can strengthen health systems by delivering novel solutions to health needs and articulating communities to enable them to work hand-in-hand with the health system toward universal health.

scholarly journals The role of multilateral organizations and governments in advancing social innovation in health care delivery

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice Halpaap ◽  
Rosanna W. Peeling ◽  
François Bonnici
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Enabling Environment ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Multilateral Organizations ◽  
Innovation Approach

Abstract Background Despite great medical advances and scientific progress over the past century, one billion people globally still lack access to basic health care services. In the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development social innovation models aim to provide effective solutions that bridge the health care delivery gap, address equity and create social value. This commentary highlights the roles of multilateral organizations and governments in creating an enabling environment where social innovations can more effectively integrate into health systems to maximize their impact on beneficiaries. Main text The integration of social innovations into health systems is essential to ensure their sustainability and the wide dissemination of their impact. Effective partnerships, strong engagement with and endorsement by governments and communities, regulations, trust and sometimes willingness are key factors to enhance system integration, replication and dissemination of the models. Three examples of social innovations selected by the Social Innovation in Health Initiative illustrate the importance of engaging with governments and communities in order to link, integrate and synergize their efforts. Key challenges that they encountered, and lessons learnt are highlighted. Multilateral organizations and governments increasingly engage in promoting and supporting the development, testing and dissemination of social innovations to address the health care delivery gap. They play an important role in creating an enabling environment. This includes promoting the concept of social innovation in health care delivery, spreading social innovation approach and lessons learnt, fostering partnerships and leveraging resources, convening communities, health system actors and various stakeholders to work together across disciplines and sectors, and nurturing capacity in countries. Conclusions Multilateral organizations and local and national governments have a critical role to play in creating an enabling environment where social innovations can flourish. In supporting and disseminating social innovation approach, multilateral organizations and governments have a great opportunity to accelerate Universal Health Coverage and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

scholarly journals THE EMINENT THREATS OF COUNTERFEIT DRUGS TO QUALITY HEALTH CARE DELIVERY IN AFRICA: UPDATES ON CONSEQUENCES AND WAY FORWARD

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nafiu Aminu ◽  
Mahmud Sani Gwarzo
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Counterfeit Drugs ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Quality Health Care ◽  
Drug Companies ◽  
Drug Policies ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
The Impact

Counterfeit drugs (CDs) continue to cause serious public health problems in many countries around the globe, particularly in the African countries which are their major consumers. Soft penalties for the drug counterfeiters; recent increase in internet commerce; ignorance and lack of effective partnership between drug companies, drug regulatory agencies, law enforcement bodies, customs, among others, have contributed to the rise in counterfeiting menace. However, governments at various levels in some of the affected countries do not accede to the menace of CDs, as they are implementing many strategies through the recent innovations and advancement in technology to curtail it. Nevertheless, there is still needs for taking more rigorous steps to achieve complete eradication of the crime. This review article presented the impact of CDs in the Africa’s quality health-care delivery, with particular attention to the causes, magnitude, and consequences. The review also identifies areas where concerted drug policies and actions are required to eradicate the drug counterfeiting crimes and also provides suggestions to drug’s policymakers and relevant stakeholders that may be useful in making decisions that can safeguard the public from the danger of CDs.

Book Review: Sanjeev Kelkar, India’s Public Health Care Delivery, Policies for Universal Health Care

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-253
Author(s):  
Nandini Jayakumar
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Universal Health Care ◽  
Universal Health

Sanjeev Kelkar, India’s Public Health Care Delivery, Policies for Universal Health Care. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, xix + 496 pp., Ä 93.08. ISBN: 9789813341791 (Hardback).

The Impact of Neonatologists' Religiosity and Spirituality on Health Care Delivery for High-Risk Neonates

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 1219-1224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela K. Donohue ◽  
Renee D. Boss ◽  
Susan W. Aucott ◽  
Elizabeth A. Keene ◽  
Paula Teague
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Religiosity And Spirituality ◽  
The Impact
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