Although stroke is often perceived as occurring primarily among the elderly, it also strikes infants, and can even occur before birth. It is one of the top ten causes of death for children, yet public awareness is extremely low, early detection is limited, and rehabilitation is inadequate. Francesca...
Leggi tuttoAlthough stroke is often perceived as occurring primarily among the elderly, it also strikes infants, and can even occur before birth. It is one of the top ten causes of death for children, yet public awareness is extremely low, early detection is limited, and rehabilitation is inadequate. Francesca...
Leggi tuttoWho can best create outcomes that lead to the healthiest possible lives of individuals and communities?
Innovating to Create #HealthforAll
Howard Weinstein’s business model gives access to low-cost, high quality hearing aid technology to the low-income people in developing countries that need it most. His deaf employees are taught to become leaders and advocates for the full inclusion of hearing-impaired people in society.
Leggi tuttoShifo’s MyChild solutions are designed with and for frontline workers, enabling them to easily track individual children and entire communities’ immunization records and preventive health needs over time, which is currently used by over 600 health service delivery points across Afghanistan, Uganda...
Leggi tuttoFrancesca Fedeli
Malcolm: Making hospitals more youth friendly
Incarcerated women in the US are particularly unwell and routinely denied access to quality healthcare in a system that was designed “by men, for men”. Through Ostara, Erica Gerrity transforms the experience of health education and prison birth and – in so doing – correctional facilities themselves...
Leggi tuttoThe Childhood Survival Revolution
How James P. Grant Convinced The World To Save Its Children