Premature Babies in India Get a Helping Hand
When Fatima* was seven months pregnant, there was despair instead of joy among family and doctors surrounding her. Her baby was expected to be born prematurely and was thus at risk of respiratory disorders, underdevelopment, and even death. Luckily for Fatima, she …
Where are the Market Facilitators? – Moving Public Private Partnerships from Idea to Implementation
As governments look toward meeting the Sustainable Development Goals, they are increasingly interested in working with social enterprises to fill gaps in service provision. At the same time, social enterprises are generating new business model innovations—from process innovations that lower the cost …
Staff Spotlight: Rohini Kalvakuntla on Managing Public Private Partnerships
Rohini Kalvakuntla works in the India office for ACCESS Health International. She manages the Public Private Partnerships Project and ACCESS Health’s involvement with the Center for Health Market Innovations. We talked to her recently when she was in New York, to find out more about …
Business World Features Safe Care, Saving Lives
Indian business magazine Business World recently published an indepth article on the Safe Care, Saving Lives program and its efforts to reduce newborn deaths in India. Of the 2.7 million neonatal deaths that occurred globally in 2015, one third occurred in India. The article …
Focusing on Primary Health to Achieve Universal Health Coverage in India
Healthcare financing is one of the critical determinants of achieving better health outcomes. In India, central and state funding collectively represents about twenty percent of total health spending. ACCESS Health conducted an exhaustive analysis and comparison of the benefit packages of government …
Simple Solutions to the Greatest Health Challenges
This piece originally appeared in The Huffington Post. In life, the simplest solutions are often the best. When it comes to healthcare, they’re also almost always the cheapest. It’s striking then that we so often choose complex, costly, and ineffective healthcare solutions …
Humans of Safe Care, Saving Lives
This is part of a series of profiles of the dedicated individuals behind the Safe Care, Saving Lives project. Safe Care, Saving Lives is a quality improvement project to improve neonatal care in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. “I was born in a …
The Evolution of Health Insurance in India
Allopathic medicine in India dates back to the 1600s when medical officers arrived in India with the British East India Company ship surgeons. After the reigns of the Indian Subcontinent or Erstwhile India were taken over by the Company in 1757, the …
Revolutionizing Primary Healthcare Delivery in Uttar Pradesh
Today, the government of Uttar Pradesh took a critical step toward strengthening primary healthcare services in the region, launching a call for proposals for a new public-private partnership that could revolutionize local healthcare service delivery. Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state …
Best Practices Booklet Launch Event at King George Hospital in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
This blog is coauthored by Sujata Rao, Gayatri Emani, Santhosh Kraleti, and Vikrant Prabhakar of ACCESS Health India. They write about how the King George Hospital Quality Improvement team came together to drive success through quality improvement. King George Hospital is part …
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