Transferring healthcare innovation from low income countries
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Originally posted on HaCIRIC website: 20 April 2012
By James Barlow
Low and middle income countries (LMICs) offer some of the most interesting examples of healthcare innovation. Some of this involves adapting solutions from richer countries but it also involves developing local, ‘bottom-up’ innovations to achieve cost-effective outcomes.
What lessons, then, do they offer us in richer countries?