Improving Healthcare Delivery via Social Innovation
News-Medical.Net July 18, 2023
Social innovation is the development and application of new methods, tools, and solutions that bring forward change. This is generally achieved through organizational or conceptual improvements. Specifically, these methods intend to create a positive difference regarding well-being on both a community and individual level.
Background
Social challenges drive the basis of social innovation. These challenges include access needs, poverty, discrimination, and inequality. Therefore, social innovation targets meeting those needs specifically. In terms of healthcare delivery, this could look like improved access to services or medication.
Changes that are made through social innovation take account of unmet needs on both a holistic and structural level. This means that social innovation can affect people on a micro or macro level. On a...