Health diplomacy through health entrepreneurship: using hackathons to address Palestinian-Israeli health concerns
Health diplomacy through health entrepreneurship: using hackathons to address Palestinian-Israeli health concerns
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DOI：
10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001548
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发表时间：
2019-07-01
影响因子：
8.1
通讯作者：
Atun, Rifat
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作者：
Ramadi, Khalil;Srinavasan, Shriya;Atun, Rifat
改善人民健康和福祉的普遍价值观使卫生成为超越人民的适当外交工具。创业在改善健康和促进可持续发展方面的作用越来越多地与传统的卫生外交结合使用。在本文中，我们将医疗保健创业作为一种有效的健康外交工具，可以刺激经济增长，改善医疗保健，并在社区中实现可持续发展。健康的改善需要不同利益相关者的参与，包括医疗保健和非卫生专业人员，以制定和实施可持续的问题为重点的解决方案。我们说明了早期阶段的创新活动，如黑客马拉松，在激发创业精神，跨学科合作，构思和创新围绕特定的问题，以当地社区的效用。具体来说，我们描述了一个黑客组织在拿撒勒，以色列作为一种手段，以弥合多元文化社区，以解决共同的健康问题，在整个人口。我们认为，卫生创业是卫生外交的一个重要组成部分，也是改善健康、经济增长和可持续发展的一个关键因素。
The universally shared values of improving health and well-being of populations make health a suitable diplomacy tool that transcends populations. The role of entrepreneurship in improving health and contributing to sustainable development is increasingly used in conjunction with traditional health diplomacy. In this paper, we present healthcare entrepreneurship as an effective health diplomacy tool that can spur economic growth, improve healthcare and generate sustainable development in communities. Improvements in health require involvement of diverse stakeholders including healthcare and non-health professionals to generate and implement sustainable problem-focused solutions. We illustrate the utility of early-stage innovation events, such as hackathons, in sparking entrepreneurship, interdisciplinary collaboration, ideation and innovation around problems specific to a local community. Specifically, we describe a hackathon organised in Nazareth, Israel as a means to bridge multicultural communities to address common health issues across the population. We suggest that health entrepreneurship is an important component of health diplomacy, and a critical ingredient for improved health, economic growth and sustainable development.