Empowering Women and Strengthening Health Systems and Services Through Investing in Nursing and Midwifery Enterprise Lessons from Lower-Income Countries: Workshop Summary (2015) / Chapter Skim
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7 Social Enterprise and Investment in Health
7 Social Enterprise and Investment in Health
Pages 67-76
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-- Krishna Udayakumar I am a huge believer that the funding should be structured for the need and not the other way around. Many funders tend to have very strict requirements on how their capital is deployed, and it ends up having the recipients or the organizations [struggle]
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THE ROLE OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISE1 Social enterprises are businesses whose primary purpose is the common good; they use business practices and the marketplace to advance social justice and development. Krishna Udayakumar explained that there are characteristics that define a social enterprise: it addresses a social need, it generates income mainly through its commercial activities, and it focuses primarily on the common good.
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Beth Bafford explained that even within traditional means, innovative financing mechanisms can be constructed depending on outcomes desired. She described the Global Health Investment Landscaping Project (GHILP)
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Market-based business models can address some of the issues of health care delivery and ease the burden on the public sector. However, government and philanthropy need to focus on providing the proper support for social enterprise to thrive, particularly professional education and research and development.
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When the funds are disbursed, they go toward paying back the loan. INNOVATIONS IN THE PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES USING EMPOWERED NURSES AND MIDWIVES IN THE PHILIPPINES3 Oscar Picazo presented some thoughts about health systems and the health care workforce that were drawn from two decades of personal experiences working in health economics, financing and policy, and human resources for health in the Philippines and around the world.
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EntrepreNurse was established by the Department of Labor and Employment because there was a drop in emigration opportunities for nurses, resulting in high unemployment of nurses in the Philippines. Nurses were organized into cooperatives, with services including home care, primary health care, medical transcription, emergency services, and wellness and fitness.
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Because many nurse and midwife franchises offer public health services, additional training by government could be obtained to assist nurses and midwives in widening their scope through newly acquired technical skills.
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Its objectives include building a scalable model to improve access to and quality of health care at affordable prices. Its intended outputs include the establishment of 10 family health clinics that increase economic activity in health and associated 5 Thissection summarizes information presented by Monique Dolfing-Vogelenzang, Medical Credit Fund (MCF)
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. Other partners she recommended include those with expertise in training using multiple media and in different settings, as well as finance entities.
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