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Value, Not Volume: Four Ways Entrepreneurs Can Help Restore Trust in India’s Health Care Providers
India’s health care providers are facing a crisis of public distrust, and at its root is the way care is paid for. Most health care is delivered by the private sector, where providers earn based on the quantity of procedures, tests and consultations delivered – whether or not those services make patients healthier. Patients know that this profit motive can lead to excessive and costly care, but most have neither the knowledge nor confidence to question a provider’s judgment. Chintan Maru discusses ways to restore their trust.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Impact Investing at a Turning Point: Read a Free Chapter of Morgan Simon’s New Book, ‘Real Impact’
Impact investing is at a turning point, says Morgan Simon, managing director of Candide Group and founding CEO of Toniic, in her new book "Real Impact: The New Economics of Social Change." It's preparing for rapid scale, but risks falling short of its ideals and transformative potential. Simon discusses eight pitfalls facing the sector in the book's third chapter – which we’re delighted to offer, for free, to readers of our e-newsletter “NextBillion Notes.”
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
