Aboriginal primary health care service provider, offering medical and dental care as well as a drug and alcohol clinic nearby.
CADIAI Social Cooperative
A social cooperative founded in Bologna in 1974, which provides social, healthcare, and educational services to the public system for children, the disabled and the elderly. CADIAI’s mission is to ensure stable employment for our members and the best economic, social and professional conditions as well as qualifying training programmes for our employees; to base […]
West Belconnen Health Cooperative Ltd
The West Belconnen Health Co-op is an affordable medical and health centre in the Australian Capital Territory that is owned by its patients. The Co-op has 4 sites with 10 bulk-billing doctors, a nurse practitioner, practice nurses and psychologists, as well as space for community organisations to offer programs and services. The Co-op was started […]
Co-operatives help Healthcare
A local chemist has a clear picture of a community’s health needs. In 2004, Brian Frith, the chemist in Charnwood, on Canberras northern fringe, compared notes with the organiser of the Neighbourhood Watch group, Roger Nicoll, and with Michael Pilbrow, the chair of his primary schools Parents and Citizens Committee. All three were concerned that […]
Robert-Cliche Health Co-operative
The Robert-Cliche Health Co-operative aims to develop a network of local health services. The co-operative offers a variety of services to its members, including family medecine as well as complementary and alternative care. Moreover, the co-op promotes health care prevention in its activities.
A Health Cooperative Federation
In 1999, at a time in which 50% of Argentina’s population was without access to health care, the Argentine Federation of Solidarity Health Entities (FAESS) was formed to bring users and providers together to develop a cooperative Health Service model. The mission of FAESS is to provide cooperatives, mutuals, and other sectors with adequate health […]
FAESS – Federacion Argentina de Entidades Solidarias de Salud
The Argentine Federation of Solidarity Health Entities (Federación Argentina de Entidades de Salud Solidaria, FAESS) was created from a collaborative agreement between the Mobilized Institute of Cooperative Funds (Instituto Movilizador de Fondos Cooperativos, IMFC) and the Cooperative Confederation of the Republic of Argentina (La Confederación Cooperativa de la Republica Argentina, COOPERAR) to formulate an integrative […]
Unimed: For Many an Unrealistic Dream
In the mid-1960s, Brazil had a mercantile-based medical system that limited free choice and, for many doctors, stood in the way of their dreams of professional excellence and justice. Some medical professionals began to envision an alternative structure for health care: the cooperative. This was an unprecedented idea for the medical field in Brazil and […]
Comunità Impegno Società Cooperativa Sociale
History is written with many small day-by-day steps forward….this is ours! It all began with a priest and some young people, with the grand ideals typical of the young and the gamble that they would be able to live a dream. A dream cannot only be a personal one, because, then, it only remains a […]
Health Is More Than a Prescription
The streets surrounding the Coomsocial basic-care health clinics bustle with activity: buses and taxies pull up to curbs, trucks deliver supplies, merchants sell to throngs of customers. The clinics are a hub of all this activity. Taxi drivers, bus companies, food vendors, medical suppliers, and many other small businesses depend on the traffic of patients […]