Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (SESH)
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Founded Since 1850
Company Description
ABOUT SESH
Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health
The SESH (Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health) initiative is a partnership joining individuals from the Southern Medical University Dermatology Hospital, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of North Carolina-Project China. The main goal of this project is to create more creative, equitable, and effective health services using crowdsourcing open calls and other social entrepreneurship tools. Crowdsourcing is the process of having a group solve a problem and then sharing that solution widely with the public.SESH is the Social Innovation in Health Initiative Hub for China.
Our Mission
To use the wisdom of the people to design health services that are creative, equitable and effective.
Objects
To develop crowdsourced tools such as innovative competitions that can be used to improve health services to build a local multi-sectoral network that will resonate and empower people – especially key influencers. Evaluate the impact of competitions run by Seth to assess effectiveness and fairness.
We believe that there are core values that SESH implementers need to embrace.
Core Values
  – Equity: primary championing of the equitable distribution of health services among population groups.
– Shared vision: having positioned partners and shared goals
– Empowerment: placing agency in the hands of local populations and community groups
– Networking: moving away from the traditional vertically organised model of sexual health services to provide a platform for horizontal collaboration and communication such as a forum.
– Impartiality: partners and standard processes are underpinned by strong ethics (no financial gain from tobacco or arms sales)
– Multi-sectoral collaboration: innovative inclusion of collaborators from different sectors (business, academic, medical/public health, arts).
– Innovation: Challenging assumptions and new approaches to building multidimensional models for sexual health.
– Inclusive: Â Promoting humanistic sexual health services.
– Diversity: Promote inclusive partnerships and anti-discrimination policies.
– Open access: sharing the rewards of innovation with others.
– Social Value: Delivering measurable, value-added social outcomes.
– Shared vision: having positioned partners and shared goals
– Empowerment: placing agency in the hands of local populations and community groups
– Networking: moving away from the traditional vertically organised model of sexual health services to provide a platform for horizontal collaboration and communication such as a forum.
– Impartiality: partners and standard processes are underpinned by strong ethics (no financial gain from tobacco or arms sales)
– Multi-sectoral collaboration: innovative inclusion of collaborators from different sectors (business, academic, medical/public health, arts).
– Innovation: Challenging assumptions and new approaches to building multidimensional models for sexual health.
– Inclusive: Â Promoting humanistic sexual health services.
– Diversity: Promote inclusive partnerships and anti-discrimination policies.
– Open access: sharing the rewards of innovation with others.
– Social Value: Delivering measurable, value-added social outcomes.
SOCIAL INNOVATION
Our Innovation
Our SESH team has a special interest in social innovation. We define social innovation as a community-engaged process that links social change and health improvement, drawing on the diverse strengths of local individuals and institutions. Our team is a research hub within the Social Innovation in Health Initiative (SIHI), a multi-disciplinary network of researchers focused on evaluating and nurturing social innovation in low and middle-income countries. Our team helped to develop WHO-TDR guides on social innovation research, crowdsourcing, and public engagement.
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