Operation increasing the health system
Working on how to make sure that better health care is available to even those that can not afford it. These days people have been dying due to the fact that they can not afford to pay for some diseases they contracted. We are partnering with some innovation specialists in providing better medical tools that can be accessible to everyone and everywhere
I offer here a process for defining problems that any organization can employ on its own. My firm has used it to help more than 100 corporations, government agencies, and foundations improve the quality and efficiency of their innovation efforts and, as a result, their overall performance
One important call-out is the importance of having a goal. As defined above, the solution may not completely solve problem, but it does meet the goals you establish for treating it–you may not be able to completely resolve the problem (end world hunger), but you can have a goal to help it (reduce the number of starving children by 10%).
Needs can be defined as the gap between what is and what should be. A need can be felt by an individual, a group, or an entire community. It can be as concrete as the need for food and water or as abstract as improved community cohesiveness. An obvious example might be the need for public transportation in a community where older adults have no means of getting around town. More important to these same adults, however, might be a need to be valued for their knowledge and experience. Examining situations closely helps uncover what is truly needed, and leads toward future improvement.
Resources, or assets, can include individuals, organizations and institutions, buildings, landscapes, equipment -- anything that can be used to improve the quality of life. The mother in Chicago who volunteers to organize games and sports for neighborhood children after school, the Kenyan farmers' cooperative that makes it possible for farmers to buy seed and fertilizer cheaply and to send their produce directly to market without a middle man, the library that provides books and Internet access to everyone, the bike and walking path where city residents can exercise -- all represent resources that enhance community life. Every individual is a potential community asset, and everyone has assets that can be used for community building.
Explain why you and your team are the right people to design and deliver this solution to the target population. We aren’t looking for your academic or professional credentials here; we would like to understand your proximity to the communities you are serving. In particular, how are you and your team representative of these communities? What are you doing to understand the needs of those you’re serving, and how are you engaging them as you develop the solution? How is the design and implementation of your solution meaningfully guided by the communities’ input, ideas, and agendas
- Build fundamental, resilient, and people-centered health infrastructure that makes essential services, equipment, and medicines more accessible and affordable for communities that are currently underserved;
- Concept
We are living in complex societies where the policy frameworks in place often seem to befall short of
providing satisfying solutions to a growing number of problems. But this does not necessarily mean that
the frameworks as such are to be changed, as a) existing frameworks are a result of historic development and
reflect a balance of different interest groups within the society; they are therefore not easy to alter1
, and b) it is
hard to predict whether changing a policy framework will lead to a higher level of satisfaction. So naturally, there
is some resistance to large-scale reforms. But while we may have to live with given policy settings, partnerships
can be a great help in improving their performance: area-based partnerships provide a mechanism for local
organizations, in particular, to work together and adapt their policies to better reflect the needs of people and
the economy at the local level. Partnerships are thus a key instrument of local governance.
How does this work? An area-based partnership is usually designed to bring together all relevant
actors within a region that can contribute to improving a given situation on an equal basis. This seemingly simple
principle actually raises a number of different issues. Firstly, bringing together all relevant actors is not an easy
task as this implies having around one table not only different government institutions (usually of different levels)
– many of which are traditionally competing with or ignoring each other – but also social partners, entrepreneurs,
NGOs, the education and scientific sector, representatives of civil society, and many more. The interests of
such partners, and therefore their approach to certain problems will usually be rather different
- Financial (e.g. improving accounting practices, pitching to investors)
For a start, greater investment in population health would make people, particularly vulnerable population groups, more resilient to health risks. The health and socio-economic consequences of the virus are felt more acutely among disadvantaged populations, stretching a social fabric already challenged by high levels of inequalities. The crisis demonstrates the consequences of poor investment in addressing wider social determinants of health, including poverty, low education, and unhealthy lifestyles.
the crisis demonstrates the importance of equipping health systems with both reserve capacity and agility. There is an historic underinvestment in the health workforce, mostly in low- and middle-income countries. Beyond sheer numbers, rigid health labour markets make it difficult to respond rapidly to demand and supply shocks. One way to address this is by creating a “reserve army” of health professionals that can be quickly mobilized. Some countries have allowed medical students in their last year of training to start working immediately, fast-tracked licenses and provided exceptional training. Others have mobilized pharmacists and care assistants. Storing a reserve capacity of supplies such as personal protection equipment, and maintaining care beds that can be quickly transformed into critical care beds, is similarly important.
an effective vaccine and successful vaccination of populations around the globe will provide the only real exit strategy. Success is not guaranteed and there are many policy issues yet to be resolved. International cooperation is vital. Multilateral commitments to pay for successful candidates would give manufacturers certainty so that they can scale production and have vaccine doses ready as quickly as possible following marketing authorization, but could also help ensure that vaccines go first to where they are most effective in ending the pandemic. Whilst leaders face political pressure to put the health of their citizens first, it is more effective to allocate vaccines based on need. More support is needed for multilateral access mechanisms that contain licensing commitments and ensure that intellectual property is no barrier to access, commitments to technology transfer for local production, and allocation of scarce doses based on need.
The pandemic offers huge opportunities to learn lessons for health system preparedness and resilience. Greater focus on anticipating responses, solidarity within and across countries, agility in managing responses, and renewed efforts for collaborative actions will be a better normal for the future.
Performance measurement and target-setting are important to the growth process. While many small businesses can run themselves quite comfortably without much formal measurement or target-setting, for growing businesses the control these processes offer can be indispensable.
The benefits of performance measurement
Knowing how the different areas of your business are performing is valuable information in its own right, but a good measurement system will also let you examine the triggers for any changes in performance. This puts you in a better position to manage your performance proactively.
One of the key challenges with performance management is selecting what to measure. The priority here is to focus on quantifiable factors that are clearly linked to the drivers of success in your business and your sector. These are known as key performance indicators (KPIs). See the page in this guide on deciding what to measure.
Bear in mind that quantifiable isn't the same as financial. While financial measures of performance are among the most widely used by businesses, nonfinancial measures can be just as important.
For example, if your business succeeds or fails on the quality of its customer service, then that's what you need to measure - through, for example, the number of complaints received. For more information about financial measurement, see the page in this guide on measurement of your financial performance.
Over the last few decades, there has been an ongoing debate in the international development community about the best way to describe how programs lead to results. One approach has been to use a Logical Framework (also called a logframe), which most donors now require. Another increasingly popular approach is to create a Theory of Change.
In reality, there is no official definition of a Theory of Change or how it differs from a Logical Framework. Both of them have the same general purpose – to describe how your program will lead to results and to help you think critically about this. Some people even argue that a Theory of Change is essentially the same thing as a Logical Framework, it’s just that over time people have forgotten how to do Logical Frameworks properly.
echnology is the continually developing result of accumulated knowledge and application in all techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in industrial production and scientific research. Technology is embedded in the operation of all machines, with or without detailed knowledge of their function, for the intended purpose of an organization. The technologies of society consist of what is known as systems. Systems apply the intended application of a technology's accumulated knowledge by obtaining an input, altering this input for the system's intended purpose through what is known as a process, and then producing an outcome that alters the ultimate intended purpose of the system. This is also known as a technology system or technological system.
The earliest and simplest form of technology is the development of knowledge that leads to the application of basic tools towards an intended purpose. The prehistoric invention of shaped stone tools and the discovery of how to control fire and increased the sources of food that were available to human beings through the proper cooking procedures that eliminated almost all disease-causing pathogens in food sources. The event that occurred after, the Neolithic Revolution, extended the importance of this event and quadrupled the sustenance available from a usable territory through the development of farming technologies.
- A new business model or process that relies on technology to be successful
- Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
- Behavioral Technology
- Biotechnology / Bioengineering
- Blockchain
- GIS and Geospatial Technology
- Imaging and Sensor Technology
- 1. No Poverty
- 2. Zero Hunger
- 3. Good Health and Well-being
- 4. Quality Education
- 5. Gender Equality
- 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
- 10. Reduced Inequalities
- 12. Responsible Consumption and Production
- Sierra Leone
- Germany
- Turkiye
- Not registered as any organization
- Organizations (B2B)