Primary Health Care Around The World

Author : Chris Van Weel,Amanda Howe
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351015899

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Primary Health Care around the World by Chris Van Weel,Amanda Howe Pdf

This unique book is the first to bring together primary care experiences from around the world, with emphasis on non-Western regions. Utilising published articles that profile different countries’ primary health care, accompanied by expert commentaries, the book consolidates global primary health care information over the past decade. Profiling the different countries’ primary health care systems and their implementation of primary health care policy, as promoted by WHO and WONCA, the guide provides evidence of how countries and regions can introduce primary health care and family practice to improve their health care infrastructure and delivery. The book is essential reading for policy makers, health educators and academic leaders in primary care and students of global health and provides useful background for those entering or established in clinical family practice around the world.

Author : Gavin J. Andrews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317075974

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Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place by Gavin J. Andrews Pdf

Health care is constantly undergoing change and refinement resulting from the adoption of new practices and technologies, the changing nature of societies and populations, and also shifts in the very places from which care is delivered. Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place draws together significant contributions from established experts across a variety of disciplines to focus on such changes in primary health care, not only because it is the most basic and integral form of health service delivery, but also because it is an area to which geographers have made significant contributions and to which other scholars have engaged in 'thinking geographically' about its core concepts and issues. Including perspectives from both consumers and producers, it moves beyond geographical accounts of the context of health service provision through its explicit focus on the practice of primary health care. With arguments well-supported by empirical research, this book will appeal not only to scholars across a range of social and health sciences, but also to professionals involved in health services.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005130799

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Primary Health Care by World Health Organization Pdf

Recommendations and report outlining operational aspects, suggested national strategies; nonAboriginal material.

Author : John J Macdonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134159628

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Primary Health Care by John J Macdonald Pdf

Primary health care (PHC) began as a solution to problems in the developing world and is coming to be seen as a profound challenge to medical attitudes the world over. The book points to three issues at the root of PHC - universal availability of essential health care to individuals, families and population groups according to need, the involvement of communities in planning, delivering and evaluating such care and an organized active role for other sectors in health activities. It is pointed out although these principles may seem uncontroversial their introduction in developing countries has been far from smooth. When it comes to the north the principles of equity, participation and intersectoral collaboration have been resisted even more strongly by both planners and the medical establishment. By examining the lessons learnt from the developing countries, the author demonstrates the necessity to de-professionalize health. He writes at a time when resistance to PHC in the Third World is increasingly being based on dubious northern models for health care. This book demonstrates the way in which a strategy for survival in poor regions becomes a model for adequate and sustainable living everywhere.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Care Services,Board on Global Health,Committee on Improving the Quality of Health Care Globally
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309477895

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Crossing the Global Quality Chasm by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Care Services,Board on Global Health,Committee on Improving the Quality of Health Care Globally Pdf

In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explicit commitment to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. However, enormous gaps remain between what is achievable in human health and where global health stands today, and progress has been both incomplete and unevenly distributed. In order to meet this goal, a deliberate and comprehensive effort is needed to improve the quality of health care services globally. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide focuses on one particular shortfall in health care affecting global populations: defects in the quality of care. This study reviews the available evidence on the quality of care worldwide and makes recommendations to improve health care quality globally while expanding access to preventive and therapeutic services, with a focus in low-resource areas. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm emphasizes the organization and delivery of safe and effective care at the patient/provider interface. This study explores issues of access to services and commodities, effectiveness, safety, efficiency, and equity. Focusing on front line service delivery that can directly impact health outcomes for individuals and populations, this book will be an essential guide for key stakeholders, governments, donors, health systems, and others involved in health care.

Author : Enis BarıŠŸ,Rachel Silverman,Huihui Wang,Feng Zhao
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781464817694

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Walking the Talk by Enis BarıŠŸ,Rachel Silverman,Huihui Wang,Feng Zhao Pdf

Almost half a century ago, policy leaders issued the Declaration of Alma Ata and embraced the promise of health for all through primary health care (PHC). That vision has inspired generations. Countries throughout the world—rich and poor—have struggled to build health systems anchored in strong PHC where they were needed most. The world has waited long enough for high-performing PHC to become more than an aspiration; it is now time to deliver. The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has facilitated the reckoning for that shared failure—but it has also created a once-in-a-generation opportunity for transformational health system changes. The pandemic has shown policy makers and ordinary citizens why health systems matter and what happens when they fail. Bold reforms now can prepare health systems for future crises and bring goals such as universal health coverage within reach. PHC holds the key to these transformations. To fulfill that promise, however, the walk has to finally match the talk. Walking the Talk: Reimagining Primary Health Care after COVID-19 outlines how to get there. It charts an agenda to reimagined, fit-for-purpose PHC. It asks three questions about health systems reform built around PHC: Why? What? How? The characteristics of high-performing PHC are precisely those that are most critical for managing the pressures coming to bear on health systems in the post-COVID world. The challenges include future outbreaks and other emergent threats, as well as long-term structural trends that are reshaping the environments in which systems operate in noncrisis times. Walking the Talk highlights three sets of megatrends that will increasingly affect health systems in the coming decades: • Demographic and epidemiological shifts • Changes in technology • Citizens’ evolving expectations for health care. Reimagined PHC systems will be equipped through optimized system design, financing, and delivery to ensure high-quality services, care to address patients’ needs, fairness and accountability, and resilient systems.

Author : Geoff Meads
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781315358239

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Primary Care in the Twenty-First Century by Geoff Meads Pdf

Quality is at the heart of the government's strategy for NHS development, and which is to be delivered through clinical governance. This book explores accreditation through practical case studies and research findings, and outlines how it can assure the quality of care. Systems of accreditation for measuring and improving quality are described, and show how they can be used easily and effectively to meet the challenges of the new NHS. It is clear, concise and relevant to all the current changes in healthcare provision. All those responsible for delivering a service based on clinical and cost effectiveness will find it essential reading. 'In the United Kingdom primary health care is based almost wholly on general practice. From April 1999 all general practices will belong to primary care groups. Questions of quality and accountability will be high on their agenda as part of the new arrangements for clinical governance. This book on accreditation in primary care is therefore most timely.' Sir Donald Irvine, President, General Medical Council, in the Introduction.

Author : Lyn Talbot,Glenda Verrinder
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780729579247

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Promoting Health by Lyn Talbot,Glenda Verrinder Pdf

The new edition will provide readily accessible material for public health educators and practitioners, in a number of professions, who are increasingly being required to address the challenges emerging from the inter-related impacts of the social and environmental factors impacting on health in an era of globalisation.

Author : Kathleen Dennill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Medical
ISBN : IND:30000076368756

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Aspects of Primary Health Care by Kathleen Dennill Pdf

Author : Hong Wang,Peter Berman
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789811212420

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Tracking Resources For Primary Health Care: A Framework And Practices In Low- And Middle-income Countries by Hong Wang,Peter Berman Pdf

The global health community is broadly in agreement that achievement of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) hinges upon both an escalation of the financial resources dedicated to primary health care (PHC) and a more effective use of those resources: more money, better spent. This book introduces and explicates the end-to-end resource tracking and management (RTM) framework, which includes five components that determine effective and efficient financing for PHC: resource mobilization, allocation, utilization, productivity, and targeting.In addition, this book compiles detailed results from the most recent RTM-based resource tracking efforts for PHC in selected countries. This is to demonstrate how the RTM framework can be used to bring a set of separate resource tracking efforts at different stages of flow of funds into a comprehensive process with an end-to-end 'storyline'. In order to build a functional PHC system that addresses access, quality, and equity issues, this book highlights the key (public) financing issues that researchers, technical advisors, and policy makers would need to address in addition to more resources.

Author : World Health Organization,The World Bank
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9789240080379

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Tracking universal health coverage by World Health Organization,The World Bank Pdf

Author : Dionne S. Kringos,W. G. W. Boerma,Allen Hutchinson,Richard B. Saltman
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9289050314

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Building Primary Care in a Changing Europe by Dionne S. Kringos,W. G. W. Boerma,Allen Hutchinson,Richard B. Saltman Pdf

For many citizens primary health care is the first point of contact with their health care system, where most of their health needs are satisfied but also acting as the gate to the rest of the system. In that respect primary care plays a crucial role in how patients value health systems as responsive to their needs and expectations. This volume analyses the way how primary are is organized and delivered across European countries, looking at governance, financing and workforce aspects and the breadth of the service profiles. It describes wide national variations in terms of accessibility, continuity and coordination. Relating these differences to health system outcomes the authors suggest some priority areas for reducing the gap between the ideal and current realities.

Author : Hassan Salah,Michael Kidd
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351016018

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Family Practice in the Eastern Mediterranean Region WHO HB SPECIAL EDITION by Hassan Salah,Michael Kidd Pdf

This is the first book to analyze in depth the current causes of shortage of family physicians and the relative weakness of the family practice model in many countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Focusing on engagement with the private health sector in scaling up family practice, the book explores why primary health care can make the difference and how it can be introduced and strengthened. Comparative experiences from around the world put the EMR in context, while the book also highlights where the EMR is special – in particular, the burden for health care of refugees and displaced persons, and the need of public-private partnerships.

Author : Ayse Emel Onal
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781839698064

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Primary Health Care by Ayse Emel Onal Pdf

This book presents examples from various countries about the provision of health services at the primary care level. Chapters examine the role of professionals in primary healthcare services and how they can work to improve the health of individuals and communities. Written by authors from Africa, Asia, America, Europe, and Australia, this book provides up-to-date information on primary health care, including telehealth services in the era of COVID-19.

Author : W. J. Stephen
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1979-03-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521218608

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An Analysis of Primary Medical Care by W. J. Stephen Pdf

This volume examines the provision of primary medical care in twenty-three different, predominantly developed countries, selected because of their variety and importance. An analysis is made of the problems and fundamental requirements of primary care (known as general practice in many countries). Arguments are put forward on priorities of spending and allocation of resources. Reasons for failure in the provision of adequate medical care are advanced. The role of the medical profession in education and in the quality of advice it has given to governments throughout the world are examined. Who should provide primary care? How should doctors be paid? Does the method of payment influence the quality of treatment received by the patient? Are any general lessons to be drawn from particular countries that could be of help in others? These and other questions are examined and answered.