PHOTO CREDIT: NAYA JEEVAN
Naya Jeevan is a Miller Center GSBI Alumni offering health insurance for the working poor.
Health Care Rationale At least 400 million people do not have access to one or more essential health services.16 The overwhelming majority of these people are in the developing world, where leading causes of death still include preventable and treatable diseases such as heart diseases, tuberculosis, and diabetes. An increasing number of innovations are emerging to tackle this problem, which are resulting in dramatically more cost-effective ways to conduct diagnosis, testing, and service delivery for health care. These include new health technologies, repurposing of existing technologies and infrastructure, new healthcare education approaches, improved healthcare products targeted to the needs and ability to pay of the world’s poor, and innovations in the delivery of care. New approaches to healthcare financing (e.g., micro-insurance products and various risk-sharing arrangements) complement these innovations. 25
