How to Set Up a Community Health Venture: Lessons from 10 Years in Kenya
| Autor: | Khanjan Mehta, Irena Gorski, Phoebe Canagarajah, Stephen Suffian, Joshua T. Bram |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Economic growth
Telemedicine Social venture capital business.industry 020209 energy Developing country 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Public relations 01 natural sciences Work (electrical) Community health Health care 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Community health workers business Set (psychology) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship. 11:72-86 |
| ISSN: | 1555-9033 |
| Popis: | Despite high potential, many community health ventures in developing countries fail to evolve beyond the pilot stage. A fundamental problem is that many ventures utilize community health workers (CHWs) as volunteers, but they leave to generate a living income for their families. After ten years of experience running a community health venture in East Africa, while observing other ventures come and go, several factors have emerged as essential for any venture to achieve success. This article presents a methodology to set up a community health venture where CHWs generate income from their work while improving health outcomes for members of their communities. The authors seek to provide individuals working to solve last-mile healthcare challenges with a practical guide for establishing community health systems and navigating the validation, networking, planning, launch, and execution phases. The goal for the ventures developed using this methodology is to operate in an economically sustainable way. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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