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The Inextricable Link Between Health and Nutrition: How strategic design can change health behaviors
When it comes to promoting good nutrition, many innovators in the health space are starting to target people’s surrounding conditions rather than their individual behavior. Creating well-placed adjustments to an environment can unleash massive changes in people’s daily routine. By forming new habits through convenience instead of via force and enlightenment, design changes can help make health and nutrients available for all.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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India’s Primary Health Care Needs Quick Reform
Primary health care delivery needs to reinvent itself. Only then can India aim for universal health coverage.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Bringing Sanitation Solutions Inside Homes: An Interview With Andy Narracott, Deputy Chief Executive of Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor
When the nonprofit Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) got together in 2010 with board member Unilever to explore new enterprise opportunities in sanitation, the consumer goods giant supported the idea wholeheartedly.
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- Health Care
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Shaping a Market for Nutrient Economies – Part 1: The zinc conundrum
The concept of supply and demand seems pretty straightforward: consumers have a need, companies compete to meet it, and prices settle at a point where supply matches demand. But what happens when a clear need for a product doesn’t spark a thriving market? WDI’s Lisa Smith examines this conundrum as it relates to zinc treatment for diarrhea - and outlines supply-side interventions that could help.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Ban tells public health educators to get involved in post-2015 development agenda
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on the global public health academic community to be active partners in the future development framework as the international community starts to set its post-2015 anti-poverty goals.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Connecting the dots between vaccines and hunger
Comic Relief started as a response to the 1984 famine in Ethiopia. Any solution to the persisting problem of global hunger must factor in immunization.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Announcing Ashoka Changemakers’ “Health Ideas” Week: A week-long discussion of nutrition’s impact on health
In health and wellness, everything is connected, from the soil that yields a staple crop to the policies of national governments. Global access to health is a critical need of our time, and it requires game-changing ideas from everyone from farmers to businesses. That’s why Ashoka Changemakers is hosting “Health Ideas” week on NextBillion Health Care, showcasing new opportunities and ideas that target global health from the perspectives of business, innovation and nutrition.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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