Impact of Egyptian Social Entrepreneurial Services on the Health Sector (Applied on Baheya Foundation for Early Detection & Treatment of Breast Cancer)

Abstract

Purpose: The aim of this research is to examine the impact of social entrepreneurs' activities on the Health Sector Development in order to determine the importance of social entrepreneurial activities. Methodology: We researchers have used two means of data in our research which are primary and secondary data this was necessary in order to collect a sufficient amount of data needed to successfully complete our study. The primary data we collected was from the In-depth interviews we held with the expert at Baheya Foundation "Mr. Maged Hamdy" who's one of the organization's main founders and after analyzing the outcomes of this interview our hypotheses were supported, in addition we have initiated interviews with a couple of the cancer survivors who have been treated at the facility, they have provided us with viable information backing up our hypotheses, furthermore we distributed around 160 surveys among participants in the health sector affiliated with social entrepreneurs, which were Baheya Foundation and 57357 Hospital, we finally analyzed the data collected using IBM's Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Findings: After conducting our research we have concluded that there is a positive significance between social entrepreneurs' activities and all three variables associated with our independent variable, which were the socio-economic sustainable development, job opportunities and health sector development. Implications: It is quite important for social entrepreneurs to study the health sector effectively before deciding on participating in projects in addition to examining other under-developed sectors in a country in order to efficiently allocate resources.