Essays on Social Impact

Introduction

Innovation is an important part of continuous improvement. The current case outlines the effect of innovation in the healthcare system in India. More precisely, it highlights the application of the low cost high volume at the Aravind hospital to increase access to care for the millions of people who cannot afford ophthalmic care. Some of the concepts discussed in the case include the focus on the rural communities and the effect on performance, the business model adopted by Aravind, whether it is optimal for acquiring capital investments, and whether it maximizes social impact. The case also discusses the social ...

Background

China is the world’s greatest country when it comes to population. It is located in the South Eastern parts of Asia being surrounded by other countries such as Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Japan, North and South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. It is the largest Asian country by land area. The most recent surveys show that China has approximately 1.4 billion (World Bank n.p.). Note that the current world population is approximate 7 billion, which means that for approximately 6 people, 1 of them is a Chinese. Interestingly, this startlingly huge population size could have been bigger ...

Tourism, hospitality management sectors are interlinked to each other to some extent and it is argued that Tourism, hospitality management are interrelated and have many cross-relationship to cover the entire sector together. Tourism and hospitality are closely related but not mutually exclusive; as hospitality is the least concerned with providing the needs of tourists. The definitions of hospitality and tourism field falls under “travel and tourism”. It is sensible to study the linked sectors together in detail on strategy and operation level. This research describes and demonstrates the close interaction between the tourism and hospitality; and flexibility of the ...

Introduction

The healthcare system in Australia is termed as one of the most successful in the world when it comes to the delivery of good healthcare. Additionally, the health outcomes, as well as the control of costs by the system, are remarkably effective as stated by Hall (2015). Such achievements have however been achieved through the interaction of the public and private financial backing, public and private provision of services, and the sharing of key duties between the federal as well as the state governments (Hall, 2015). In the US, no single system of health insurance covers the nation. Health ...

Social Change Impact of the Project

The applied project is aimed at transforming the social fabrics of the ACB community living in Canada, especially on issues revolving on HIV prevention. Previous chapters have been focused in discussing social deliverables that can help tone down the high rate of HIV prevalence rates as well as stigmatization among the ACB community members, therefore, this section conclude the social impact of the interventions so far discussed in these sections. The first and a core social change impact of this intervention relate to its ability to reduce the higher prevalence rates of HIV in the society. This fact comes ...

Introduction

Despite the fact that Apple Inc. and the Geek Squad are both engaged in the business of technology, they distinctly provide and offer different services to the market. Simply put, Apple Inc. basically provides the hardware while the Geek Squad provides the technical support to the end-users in order to operate such hardware. Regardless of their operational differences, it can be observed in the two case studies that both organizations have become successful in their endeavors through an understanding of the five environmental forces which impact their respective companies. These include social, economic, technological, competitive, and regulatory forces which ...

Analysis of Diseases

Overview Chikungunya (CHIK) refers to a re-emerging arboviral disease transmitted by the mosquitos Aedes aegypty and Aedes albopictus (Pialoux 318). The virus belongs to the genus Alphavirus and family Togaviridae. The word chikungunya derives from Makonde language (spoken in Tanzania and northern Mozambique), where it means “to walk bent over” (Halstead 557). This name refers to the main feature of both chronic and acute phase of the disease a change in posture causes by the arthritis and arthralgia (Charrel, Lamballerie and Raoult 769).

History

The disease gained its name after the outbreak in Tanganyika, the modern Tanzania in 1952. However, ...

The Ted Talk given by Jose Sokoloff, the internationally awarded and respected advertising creative and peace proponent from Colombia, was an awe inspiring listening experience that illustrated the power of marketing communications done in an effective manner, the power of love with regards to inspiring the unthinkable and most importantly the power of intent that was showcased by Sokoloff and his team to create an impact with the marketing campaign on an emotive level on a social level (Sokoloff). The war in Colombia is connected on a deep emotional level with Jose Sokoloff, as according to him, he has ...

Question 1

Microfinance’s have gained popularity among the many in the low-income category. Microfinance and microcredit facilities targets to provide poor people with small loans. The loan provided attracts low-interest rates and can be paid over a reasonable period without overburdening the poor to eradicating poverty. The services have been popularized by Nongovernmental organizations and social entrepreneurs between 1970s and 1980s. In Bangladesh Grameen Bank was the first to be established in 1976. The microfinance was founded by Mohammad Yunus, who is an economics professor. The professor targeted to eliminate poverty from the local villager hence, the model adopted by ...

Introduction

In last few years, the randomized program evaluation has become the gold basis for evaluating the development programs and also the bread and butter of many development economists. The evaluations sometimes uncover the valuable new information, but are contentious, and can also be prohibitively expensive to implement, for small NGO’s. Appreciating how the microfinance affects clients is not straightforward for the reason that there are several possible explanations for why, say, a borrower is doing well as compared to her non-borrowing peers. The credit may be helping–or conceivably the borrower was already comparatively prosperous and would have fared ...