Health Systems Innovation is the Path to Better Health

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health discoveries are often not immediately accessible or affordable to the average individual, particularly in low and middle-income countries.

When we think of health innovations, we are often drawn to images of scientists in laboratories making ground-breaking discoveries - inventing state-of-the-art equipment using a highly sophisticated computerised system, or formulating a revolutionary new drug or treatment.

While the publicity and hope that is normally associated with these types of breakthroughs is understandable, the reality is that new health discoveries are often not immediately accessible or affordable to the average individual, particularly in low and middle-income countries. Poorer populations are generally the last to get access to them.