Reaching SDG #3 – Good Health and Well-being: evidence from healthcare initiatives in South Africa

Constance Dumalanède

Chapter 10 in The Elgar Companion to Social Innovation and the Sustainable Development Goals, 2026, pp 203-222 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter presents how private organizations can contribute to SDG#3 Good Health and Well-being by leading social innovation in health. Through the analysis of two health initiatives in South Africa, we presented the main barriers to health accessibility and gave evidence of the way these organizations engaged in social innovation in health. We highlighted key practices that organizations have developed to deliver inclusive health services while solving social problems in which health issues are usually embedded. Both organizations have focused on local employment and education to encourage community empowerment while they have developed local interactions and promotion activities to increase their local acceptance. We suggest that local interactions and branding strategies seem to contribute to organizations’ local acceptance, which in turn appears essential to gaining importance and recognition in the health ecosystem, increasing the capacity of organizations to influence health policies.

Keywords: Social Innovation in Health; SDG; 3; Barriers to health accessibility; Low-income countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035326037
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