{"id":8968,"date":"2019-09-06T18:05:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T23:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ionicalliance.com\/?p=8968"},"modified":"2021-07-13T18:04:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T23:04:43","slug":"social-innovation-for-global-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ionicalliance.com\/social-innovation-for-global-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Innovation for Global Health"},"content":{"rendered":"
Health care systems across the world are under strain. Significant medical advances have turned previously life-threatening conditions into long-term conditions that now need to be managed. While this is beneficial in the bigger picture, it causes serious smaller issues that need to be addressed, for example; how can we maintain these treatments effectively and costly?<\/p>\n
In some parts of the world, citizens have become accustomed to high levels of personalization and efficiency when it comes to private healthcare. However, in order to tackle this international problem, we need to adjust our ways of thinking, we need to start thinking of social innovation for global health.<\/p>\n
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Social innovation is very tricky to define because there really isn\u2019t a definition that covers the subject, it is used to describe a very broad range of activities. There is no single, commonly agreed definition of social innovation. Basically, it is a disruptive approach for solving many global issues, contributed to, for, and by the people who need it. These ideas are created with the goal of positively strengthening civil society.<\/p>\n
\u201cSocial innovation refers to the creation, development, adoption, and integration of new concepts and practices that put people and the planet first. Social innovations resolve existing social, health, cultural, economic, and environmental challenges. Some social innovations are systems-changing \u2013 they permanently alter the perceptions, behaviors, and structures that previously gave rise to these challenges.\u201d \u2013The Canadian Centre for Social Innovation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n New challenges have emerged over the past few decades. In many parts of the world, migration has put pressure on communities and their already fragile healthcare systems. A rapidly aging population has dramatically increased demands on health services. While on the other hand, a rapidly growing population increases the demand for global health care. And in the West, new unhealthy lifestyles have brought problems of obesity and an increase in chronic diseases like diabetes.<\/p>\nSocial Innovation and the Healthcare Crisis<\/h2>\n