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This case study reviews the salaUno’s model, a Mexico City-based eye care centre whose vision is to create a for-profit eye care system that provides affordable and accessible care to all segments of the population. It provides information on the sector, and the business models success factors, pillars, challenges, and competitors.

Microcare originated out of a desire to find more effective ways to provide low-income communities with access to better quality healthcare. Pre-paid healthcare offered an opportunity to accumulate and channel resources so that poor people would get cashless access to healthcare services and service providers would benefit from better cash flows. Microinsurance Paper #24 examines the factors that contributed to the rise and fall of Microcare as a provider of low-cost health insurance. It seeks to draw lessons from Microcare’s experience that will further the development of a more successful business model for health microinsurance.

This case study showcases the Hapinoy business, which joined the Business Call to Action with a commitment to create an inclusive distribution network of independently operated convenience stores for over-the-counter medicines and healthcare related products in marginalised communities in the Philippines. It outlines the initiative's goals, how the business model works, the business and development impacts, and the key success factors.

This case study showcases global science-based company Royal DSM, which joined the Business Call to Action with the commitment to improve childhood nutrition and create employment opportunities in poor communities in Indonesia. It outlines how the business model works, the business and development impacts to date, and the key success factors.

SAJIDA has consistently found ways to improve the value of its product for clients. From faster claims to community health workers, find out in Case Brief #3 how it uses the PACE tool to identify improvements.

In 2012, Aseguradora Rural registered the first approved health microinsurance product in Guatemala, sold through its partner, a large, trusted bank network. As highlighted in Case Brief #1, it has been able to leverage clients´ trust in the bank to grow quickly. Now it is tackling the challenge of ensuring understanding and use of the product on an equally large scale.

This text describes how inclusive business models both embody and drive social innovation through their philosophy, processes, partners and policies. In 2005 Anant Kumar was travelling to hospitals around India, conducting market research. The women Kumar spoke with were dissatisfied with the lack of transparency, quality, and service experienced at the free public hospitals, yet private hospitals were largely unaffordable. Recognising a clear social need and a market gap, Kumar convinced his employer to finance a maternity clinic aimed at providing high-quality yet affordable healthcare to low-income mothers and children in Hyderabad’s urban slums.

This case study explores Penda Health which provides high-quality, evidence-based, standardised primary care, both curative and preventative, to low- and middle-income families in Kenya while also specialising in women’s health care. It reviews the impacts of providing access to primary health care on children age eight and younger and on pregnant women living in BoP communities.

Chapter from "Social Innovation: Solutions for a Sustainable Future" (pp. 99-109): In 2005 Anant Kumar was travelling to hospitals around India, conducting market research. The women Kumar spoke with were dissatisfied with the lack of transparency, quality, and service experienced at the free public hospitals, yet private hospitals were largely unaffordable. Recognising a clear social need and a market gap, Kumar convinced his employer to finance a maternity clinic aimed at providing high-quality yet affordable healthcare to low-income mothers and children in Hyderabad’s urban slums.

This study reviews the product design process in identifying sustainable solutions to providing sanitary care for girls. It assesses the acceptability of locally produced sanitary alternatives among primary and secondary schoolgirls in rural Uganda where three cloth pads, one disposable product made out of papyrus, and individually-sized incinerators were tested.