"EXTREMELY AFFORDABLE HEALTH INNOVATIONS" Poster Session A Grameen Health initiative in collaboration with 7th Annual World Health Care Congress 2010

1. Affordable Business Models
2. Enabling Technologies for Health
3. Health Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
4. Sustainable NGOs and Community-Based Programs

• How do I know my abstract was transmitted correctly?


Immediately upon your online submission of all required information including contact details, topic, and abstract, you will receive an email notification confirming receipt. If your registration does not transmit properly, please review the page to be sure that you have filled in all of the required fields on the form.

After you submission, you will be contacted by email with additional details.


• Who is eligible to submit an abstract?


Abstracts for the "Extremely Affordable Health Innovations" Poster Session are welcome from all individuals involved in businesses delivering affordable services to low-income people and entrepreneurs who have demonstrated the use of technology to enable affordable access to health services for the poor. Abstract submitters may range from students to professionals.


• I have a coauthor. Whose name should be used as the primary author?


The author who will be in attendance should submit the abstract under their name. If both authors will be in attendance, then either may submit the abstract. However, only the submitting author can be listed as the primary presenter. If selected for oral presentation, only the primary presenter may present. The primary presenter will also receive all communication from World Congress and Grameen Health.

The primary presenter should be directly involved in or leading the effort. Co-authors may register for the conference separately and present their poster along with the primary presenter.


• Do I need to register for the World Health Care Congress to submit an abstract?


No.


• Is there payment required to be a poster presenter? Is there a discount?


Accepted participants belonging to non-profit and academic institutions may participate for a discounted flat fee of €205. Corporate participants are required to pay in full.


• Can I submit more than one abstract?


Yes, each participant may submit up to 3 abstracts for presentation at the "Extremely Affordable Health Innovations" Poster Session. However, only a maximum of one abstract per participant can qualify for oral presentation. You may, however, be a coauthor for an unlimited number of abstracts submitted by other conference participants.


• My abstract has been accepted for poster presentation! What are the next steps?



1. Presenters will be notified that their abstract has been reviewed and accepted for poster presentation.
2. The author will be required to submit a poster presenter agreement and a 1-paragraph bio.
3. Presenters should communicate their needs for internet connection and electrical outlet.
4. Accepted presenters must adhere to deadlines and guidelines, and they must promptly respond to communication.
5. Accepted presenters may give permission for presentations to be reproduced and made publicly available on World Health Care Congress' conference website.



• My abstract has also been accepted for oral presentation! What are the next steps?



1. The abstract author will be notified that their abstract has been reviewed and accepted for oral presentation.
2. The author will be required to submit an oral presenter agreement, a 1-paragraph bio, and an electronic photo.
3. The author will be required to submit a PowerPoint presentation to World Heath Care Congress at least 15 days prior to the conference.
4. Accepted presenters must adhere to deadlines and guidelines, and they must promptly respond to communication.



• Who should I contact if I have other questions or need further communication?

Watch Poster Session Innovators Interviews on YouTube!

Improving Sanitary Conditions - Binti Africa Foundation
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Watch Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Healthcare, at the 6th Annual World Health Care Congress
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Started in 1970 in Jamkhed, Maharashtra, the Comprehensive Rural Health Program aimed to build a hospital accessible to rural people, empower people and communities regardless of caste, race or religion to take health into their own hands, look at overall development of society and not a particular field, make people self-reliable, believe it is a community's responsibility to take care of it’s own and build capacity, skills, and confidence of village people to enable them to participate in and improve the health of the community. View Poster »

As a manufactured, micronutrient-fortified grain made from rice flour and then blended into traditional rice, Ultra Rice® offers a culturally relevant and customizable solution to micronutrient malnutrition, particularly for public-sector buyers seeking to meet varying nutritional needs and fortification requirements. With 28 studies forming its evidence base, Ultra Rice has proven safe and efficacious in women and children across multiple geographies and demographic groups disproportionately affected by anemia and other consequences of micronutrient deficiency. View Poster »

Children in Africa are not dying of major epidemics but, in 70 % of cases, of complications of simple diseases. This is an aberration as personnel and affordable treatments are available locally. To address this, Pesinet delivers an innovative detection and early-care system. For a monthly fee worth a day of earning, a Pesinet child gets weekly home-based check-up by mobile agents, remote medical monitoring by the community doctor, early treatment, access to discounted medication and medical follow-up. Four agents, one coordinator and one doctor are recruited for each Pesinet program, to follow-up on 1000 subscribers. By using non-qualified agents and telecommunication technologies to operate a first triage of patients at lower cost, Pesinet acts as a multiplier of medical radius for public healthcare structures, increases demand for and facilitates access to affordable treatment, thus driving a cultural shift in the perception of prevention. View Poster »

Through in-store medical clinics that allow patients to receive care at lost cost, to its affordable prescription program, vision clinics and other health endeavors, Walmart is emerging as a leading provider of affordable health care to a growing portion of the population. As part of its mission, Walmart aims to develop and maintain the health of individuals, and not just treat disease and illness. View Poster »

The Ministry of Health in Kenya used EpiSurveyor Mobile to monitor teams responding to a wild poliovirus outbreak in the Turkana North district. For the first time, supervisors and field staff were able to manage the complexity of the campaign with real time data from the field. Managers were able to reallocate vaccines and personnel to the areas of highest need, as they were needed, thus improving the efficacy of the campaign. Kenya is committed to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative declared by the World Health Assembly and has been implementing the strategies recommended by WHO. View Poster »

Only about 15 percent of U.S. physicians use electronic health records to manage patients health information. See why researchers at Park Point University think there is a need to expand the practice. View Poster »

A wide rural-urban divide exists for health care delivery in developing nations. Medical specialists in these countries are scare and usually concentrated in cities. Consequently, the diagnosis and treatment are often delayed, resulting in worse outcomes and more costly care. Implementation of a mobile system allowing medical data (text, images, audio, ultrasound, x-rays) collected by a rural health worker to be transmitted via cell phone to a remote medical specialist for diagnosis, and for incorporation into an electronic medical records. View Poster »

• Developed by the University of Connecticut Health Center and the Community Health Center Association of Connecticut, the project aims to:
• Comprehend how an open access and redesign model functions, and how this model can be applied in community health centers to improve efficiency
• Identify steps required to implement access and redesign in a community health center and to clarify how to execute those steps
• Create a "toolkit" which provides innovations, resources and examples pertaining to access and redesign implementation
• Provide a systematic process that a community health center can utilize to improve quality of care for patients and create a more effective system for providers.

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Seventy percent of girls and women in Kenya cannot afford sanitary pads which retail at USD1.02 per packet. During menstruation, they use unhygienic means like old mattresses, traditional leaves and papers, which expose them to infection. Girls are also unable to attend school during their periods. Binti Africa Foundation (BAF) produces affordable sanitary pads which retail at less than $ 1 US per packet for low income, mostly rural populations. Binti sanitary pads have been designed with breathable materials, and hinge around the traditional concept of baby’s napkins. Pads are produced in rural villages by women who, due to the gender burden, are unable to get out of the home to work in income generating activities. Producing the pads in the village setting therefore gives them a chance to improve their income, and creates ownership, which ensures sustainability. Over the past year, Binti sanitary pads have enabled 50% of rural girls in select schools.

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The Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC) is designed to fully suit the needs of people with disabilities in developing countries by utilizing upper body power through a lever-drive system. The drive train, which is made from locally available bicycle components, enables the user to select different gear ratios by sliding his or her hand up and down the levelers. When not in use, the levers stow away to allow the LFC to be used as a conventional wheelchair. This operational flexibility should make the LFC usable on any terrain, from rural walking paths to tight indoor confines, and greatly increase the mobility of people with disabilities in developing countries. The LFC is currently undergoing a four-month trial in East Africa with users from varying geographic regions and demographics.

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Presented by HealthStore Foundation, Child and Family Wellness Clinics (CFW) served more than 500,000 people in 2008. They are helping to address a public health crisis where 30,000 children each day lack access to high-quality essential medicines and basic health care. The mission is to improve access to essential drugs, basic health care and prevention. CFW uses business models that maintain business and clinical standards, are geometrically scalable and achieve economies of scale.

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Malaria persists as a major public health problem, claiming a global toll of 247 million clinical cases and nearly 1 million deaths per year. There is an increasing need for accurate diagnosis and screening to aid in surveillance and monitoring of intervention efficacy. Current definitive screening for active malaria infection necessitates drawing blood. A diagnostic test for clinical malaria using a urine sample has many advantages over current diagnostic methods, potentially offering a tool for epidemiological monitoring. The urine-based malaria test (UMT) detects Plasmodium falciparum antigens from urine of malaria patients showing febrile illness. The test is positive in 5-10 minutes and is as specific as microscopy or blood-based rapid diagnostic tests.

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Patients with chronic diseases need frequent health monitoring and behavior change services, but most health systems lack the resources required to provide the assistance that can prevent health crises. Family and friends are often in frequent contact, but lack the tools they need to support effective self-care. The University of Michigan is developing strategies for using widely-accessible information technology to support disease self-management and improve access to clinical follow-up. The CarePartner program includes regular automated telephonic assessment and behavior change calls to patients, with immediate feedback about health and behavioral problems. Patients participate along with an adult child or other social network member who serves as their “CarePartner” and receives feedback about the patient’s status via tailored emails, automated calls, and web-based reports. Clinicians receive alerts when patient responses indicate an urgent problem.

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1. Abstracts must be no longer than 250 words. Longer abstracts will not be reviewed.
2. Abstracts must be submitted and presented in English.
3. Acronyms and abbreviations should be spelled out at first use.

• All work presented in abstracts is expected to conform to generally accepted standards of ethics with regards to authorship, plagiarism, treatment of human/animal subjects, experimental procedures and data management, conflict of interest, and other concerns. When in doubt, please consult policies set forth by the United States Department of Health Office of Research Integrity or a comparable body—a primer on researcher standards can be found at:
  http://ori.dhhs.gov/documents/guide_conduct_research.pdf.
• All abstracts remain as the property of the author until a decision has been made and copyright has been assigned to either the World Congress or Grameen Health. However, submission of an abstract implies permission to subject the abstract to the confidential peer-review process.
• World Congress and Grameen Health will maintain the integrity of submitted abstracts by treating unpublished/presented abstracts as confidential, privileged documents. Information about an abstract under consideration will not be disclosed to anyone except as part of the normal review and editorial process. Abstract reviewers will pay close attention to all matters of confidentiality, conflict of interest, and objectivity, and will not use non-public information contained in submitted abstracts for their own benefit, whether financial or research related.