Bihar Innovation Lab

What is the internet doing to rural Bihar? Our conversations with officials across Bihar.

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Changing Bihar - 'Nothing Changes, if Nothing Changes' - Design PublicDesign Public

The Lab's busy getting ready for Health Public - Patna Edition. The theme for this convening is 'the role and future of health systems innovation in the state of Bihar'.

We have an exciting day planned, stay tuned for more!

The ANM Workstation reaches its end user the - the ANM. Pictures from Darbhanga where these ANMs were oriented with our product. True to its principles, the Lab follows a user-centered approach to training end users as well. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CARE India BBC Media Action

Check out World Health Organization (WHO)'s Practical Guide for the Design, Use and Promotion of Home-Based Records in Immunization Programmes:
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/175905/2/WHO_IVB_15.05_eng.pdf

We've been reading through as we design a new Health Card for Bihar!

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Did you know that, 78% of children in Bihar, between 6-59 months of age, are anemic?*

Minister Health and Minister Women and Child Development launched the India Health Report: Nutrition 2015 yesterday. Interesting times as we gear up for some work on Nutrition in Bihar.



*Source: RSoC, 2014

http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-edit-page/midwifing-efficient-healthcare-establish-regulatory-mechanisms-to-monitor-the-cost-and-quality-of-indias-health-system/

Midwifing Efficient Healthcare in India

Midwifing efficient healthcare: Establish regulatory mechanisms to monitor the cost and quality... Devi Shetty has recently argued in these columns (September 10) how red tape is strangling the health system in India and is not allowing simple interventions which can transform healthcare to happen. Without belittling his...

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/ben-carson-donald-trump-republican-presidential-debate-vaccine-autism-science-government/405901/

"Informing people about vaccines, and trying to expose misconceptions, can backfire. One study showed that people were actually less likely to get a flu shot after being told it does not cause the flu."

How Donald Trump and Ben Carson's Vaccine Comments Play to Republican Fears It's hard to fight ideology with facts.