IPCHS. Integrated People-Centred Health Services

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Nov. 11, 2016 Europe Publication
Reorienting the model of care

Rethinking primary care’s gatekeeper role

Gatekeeping is the term used to describe the role of primary care physicians or general practitioners (GPs) in authorizing access to specialty care, and diagnostic tests. Gatekeeping has crucial influences on service utilisation, health outcomes, healthcare costs, and patient satisfaction. 
It was developed as a response to a shortage of specialists and a desire to control healthcare spending and has been an accepted practice in lot of countries. Yet direct access could help reduce GP workload and facilitate greater patient choice. They look in this study at the pros and cons of gatekeeping policies in various countries, and highlight the need for more evidence to devise policy. 

ethical implication., family medicine, gatekeeper, primary care
April 14, 2018 South-East Asia Publication
Engaging and empowering people and communities, Strengthening governance and accountability, Creating an enabling environment

‘We have the internet in our hands’: Bangladeshi college students’ use of ICTs for health information

Innovations in Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), and especially mobile health, have been predicted to transform provider-patient relationships through the dissemination of health information, and by encouraging patient autonomy , self-management, and self-care. People´s capacity to access health information is informed by power inequalities in health systems. 

gatekeeper, gender, health information management, mhealth, patient relationships, self-care and management