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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2 Women's Empowerment
2 Women's Empowerment
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Investing in women is a way to cut across traditional silos such as agriculture, health care, and environment, and to empower women through multisector approaches. -- Beth Bafford 9
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She emphasized that the elements of "capacity to choose," "building individual and collective assets," and the "context that governs the use of these assets" deserve specific attention. She noted that it would be possible to achieve innovative models of health care delivery without incorporating empowerment approaches, but she cautioned that they might not be longterm or sustainable models.
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Vương believes that this lack of heath care choice for underserved populations is an opportunity for nurses and midwives to provide missing services to rural and other disadvantaged communities. She also asserted that even though provision of care is often limited by constrained resources, many times there is still an opportunity to create a marketplace for affordable health care with customers who have the ability to pay.
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The first is the organization supports women -- the majority of clients are women, there is a mandate to serve women in its mission, there is a specific program targeting women within the organization, or the majority of the organization's products or services are beneficial to women. The second is the organization has women's empowerment related services -- there is adequate female representation on leadership teams or boards, or the organization has received industry-wide recognition for working with women.
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But these private health care facilities are underfunded and lack access to capital, either locally or through donors. She noted there are a number of reasons for this, including weak financial and administration structures, but other reasons include collateral and contractual issues common to small and medium enterprises particularly in health care.
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The two programs are linked and offered through local partners to build capacity through health networks and to provide loans. Loans are provided in amounts ranging between $5,000 and $350,000 with reasonable terms and partial guarantee through the MCF (with the local banks increasingly taking on risk)
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in Kenya PharmAcess is developing a health care payment infrastructure as a way for consumers to finance their health care needs by making use of the rapidly developing mobile payments market. This would be used at accredited facilities that provide a certain level of care, and would allow channeling funds for specific health benefits to beneficiaries through a mobile wallet.
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. This is due to a shortage of supply of maternal health services, especially in the rural areas.
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Material original to PharmAccess. • ncreasing the availability of quality maternal health services with an I accompanied increase in skilled birth attendance.
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18 EMPOWERING WOMEN BOX 2-2 Mobile Health: An Integrated Approach, Empowering Patientsa Step 1: Health Payment Infrastructure • reate mobile health payment infrastructure to allow pooling of various C sources of funds; (group) savings, remittances • Improve business case for health care providers to invest in quality Step 2: Quality Standards • stablish national system for quality assessments using SafeCare E standards • mbed quality in the public system through cooperation with National E Hospital Insurance Fund and Ministry of Health Step 3: Investments • nvest in quality and business improvement of private health care provid I ers through the MCF • Build the business case for private investments in the health sector a The text in this box is reprinted with permission from Dolfing-Vogelenzang.
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This participant questioned whether a knowledge ex change platform such as this might facilitate the growth of direct matching services, particularly regarding access by women. • Defining empowerment: The World Bank definition of empower ment is very capital- and investment-oriented, but individuals such as Patricia Hill Collins, professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, have proposed a social justice–oriented paradigm of resisting the dominating forces that disempower women.
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