JANMA – The Clean Birth Kit
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Play category Encourages child-directed, unstructured free play The post Imagination Playground in a Box appeared first on INDEX: Design to Improve Life®.
View ArticleEMBRACE INFANT WARMER
People's Choice Award 2011, BODY Category What is the problem?Twenty million premature and underweight babies are born a year and four million of them die. Babies that survive often grow up with...
View ArticleThe “SOS” Infant Nursing Packs
Body category Short description of design: The apparatus is an innovative approach to the problem of feeding bottle related deaths, especially in the developing countries. The design suggests strongly...
View ArticleThe missing link to end the leading cause of child deaths
ADAPTAIR, INDEX: AWARD 2013 FINALIST. Every year, 2 million children die from pneumonia – more than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined – and 98% of these children live in developing countries. A...
View ArticleA trio of life-saving devices reduces childbirth mortality
THE NATALIE COLLECTION, INDEX: AWARD 2013 FINALIST. Two of the UN Millennium Development Goals are to reduce child and maternal mortality by 2015. Norwegian product developers have designed a trio of...
View ArticleMobile games teach women and children vital survival skills
HALF THE SKY: MOBILE GAMES, INDEX: AWARD 2013 FINALIST. More people have access to mobile phones than they do toilets, and mobile gaming is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Now, the...
View ArticleDanish playgrounds fight obesity with active play
MONSTRUM’S IMAGINARY PLAYGROUNDS, INDEX: AWARD 2013 FINALIST. Ironically, more often than not playgrounds aren’t very playful. So it is little surprise that kids gravitate towards computer games, and...
View Articleeducational Text messages to new mothers save lives
MAMA (MOBILE ALLIANCE FOR MATERNAL ACTION), INDEX: AWARD 2013 FINALIST. In developing countries all over the world women lack access to basic health information on how to have a safe pregnancy and take...
View ArticleTRIO OF LIFE-SAVING DEVICES REDUCE CHILDBIRTH MORTALITY
INDEX: Award Winner 2013, BODY Category Two of the UN's Millennium Development Goals are to reduce child and maternal mortality by 2015. Norwegian product developers have designed a trio of highly...
View Article10.000 HAPPY BIRTHDAYS
Laerdal Global Health continues to save the lives of mothers and infants. The INDEX: Award 2013 winners are using their award money to roll out training programs for midwifes in Africa and establish...
View ArticleLAERDAL GLOBAL HEALTH INNOVATES TO IMPROVE LIFE
A mask providing effective ventilations, representation of a postpartum uterus after birth, light for birth attendants and a new fetal heart rate monitor are among the innovations from the Norwegian...
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