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LiveWell Initiative
How Governments, Policy Makers, Entrepreneurs, and Donors might
"collaborate" to solve the problem of
"poor healthcare delivery" in Africa.
Bisi Bright,
CEO, LWI
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A brief Introduction of self
and background.• Consultant Clinical Pharmacist / Lecturer / Public Health
Manager
• Social Entrepreneur
• Faculty Member Economist Conferences HCA
• Former SG West African Postgraduate College of
Pharmacists
• Former Africa/Middle East rep FIP
• Visiting Faculty University of Helsinki
• Deputy National Coordinator NNVH
• Assistant SG, Healthcare Federation of Nigeria HFN03/04/2017 www.livewellng.org
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LiveWell InitiativeA brief Introduction of self and
background.
The Six-Month Wellbeing Window SMWW is an innovation of LiveWell Initiative which has found that NCDs in particular Cardiovascular Health is enahnced and gradually brought under control, within a very short period of an LWI Intervention, and within a six-month period the patient enjoys Wellness and Wellbeing; and will only need medical attention again after the 6-month period.
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LiveWell Initiative Summary –
What was the problem?
The SMWW program is an enduring Community Health Outreach Programme which has been run as a Pilot Program in Lagos and Southwest Nigeria, with at least 6 Outreaches projecting a population of 1,500-2,000 patients per outreach. Cardiovascular Disease prevalence is as high as 20% in Nigeria .
The programme is replicable, sustainable and scalable and in the past 9 years since inception, LWI has directly impacted over 300,000 cardiovascular disease sufferers, and continuously established the six-month wellbeing window SMWW
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Approaches in Solving the
Problem? • What worked? • They are usually screened for Blood Pressure, Blood Sugar
and Cholesterol in line with globally acceptable algorithms. Data gathering is usually sentinel data gathering, done at the intervention programmes, and thereafter clients are followed up after 3 months (halfway mark) and after 6 months.
• Those who need immediate follow up are enrolled in our FREE HomeHealthcare Programme tagged EASYHEALTH, for at least 4 months free follow-up care.
• Wellbeing is measured using the following parameters:• - BP Control and Overall Cardiovascular Health
• - Quality of life
• - Quality Adjusted Life Year
• - Ability to achieve and Sustain BP Control
• What didn't work? ---- Funding challenges but been able to overcome that through our unique self-sustaining business model.03/04/2017 www.livewellng.org
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Stakeholder Collaborative Strategies
• The SMWW Model is a simple Cardiovascular / NCDs intervention method which is replicable, sustainable and scalable in all economies and very useful in low income economies.
• LWI is generating enough data to support its Six Month Wellbeing Window innovation; with the hope that it will be replicated and scaled up in other countries around the globe.
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Impact of the Collaboration
• With the SMWW Model, Governments around
the world will be able to save up to 80% on
Healthcare spending, as 80-90% of the
healthcare needs of MOST populations, can be
taken care of by the SMWW Model.
• Services include Cancer Screenings, Hepatitis
B & C Screenings, HIV/AIDS and several
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LiveWell Initiative New Strategies
• Backed up with slum clinics, at least 90%
of Healthcare spending in most economies
will be well taken care of by just 10% of
the Health Vote; thus the VEN analysis
• Home Healthcare should be introduced as
is done in developed countries
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GT Bank Plc Free Public Health Fair ...taking
Healthcare to the People – the impact is realistic
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LiveWell Initiative Conclusion
SMWW is:
• Sustainable
• Replicable
• Scalable
• Impactful
• Acceptable
• Will work in all situations
• Will resolve Africa’s Healthcare Dilemna
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LiveWell Initiative1 minute closing Remarks
• In summary, we have discovered an affordable, sustainable, replicable, scalable and realistic solution to Africa’s health challenge
• It is a model which combines the SMWW with a Slum clinic and Home Healthcare model
• It will improve healthcare access in Africa by 80%
• It will reduce government healthcare spending at the tertiary level of care due to earlier detection at community level, thus lowering the cost of care
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