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June 6, 2018

South-East Asia

Scientific publication

Strengthening governance and accountability, Coordinating services within and across sectors, Creating an enabling environment

Aspects of Multicomponent Integrated Care Promote Sustained Improvement in Surrogate Clinical Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

The implementation of the Chronic Care Model (CCM) improves health care quality. This study examined the sustained effectiveness of multicomponent integrated care in type 2 diabetes. Despite the small effect size of multicomponent integrated care team-based care with better information flow may improve patient-provider communication and self-management in patients who are young, with suboptimal control, and in low-resource settings.
May 18, 2018

Eastern Mediterranean

Scientific publication

Empowering and engaging people and communities, Creating an enabling environment

Primary healthcare policy implementation in the Eastern Mediterranean region: Experiences of six countries

Primary healthcare (PHC) is essential for equitable access and cost-effective healthcare. This makes PHC a key factor in the global strategy for universal health coverage (UHC). Implementing PHC requires an understanding of the health system under prevailing circumstances, but for most countries, no data are available. This paper describes and analyse the health systems of Bahrain, Egypt, Lebanon, Qatar, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates, in relation to PHC
May 9, 2018

Europe

Implementation report

Empowering and engaging people and communities, Creating an enabling environment

Making sense of integrated care systems, integrated care partnerships and accountable care organisations in the NHS in England

NHS England has recently changed the name of accountable care systems to integrated care systems, which describes more accurately the work being done in the 10 areas of England operating in this way. These updated long read looks at work under way in these systems and at NHS England´s proposals for an accountable care organization contract
May 7, 2018

Global

Scientific publication

Empowering and engaging people and communities, Coordinating services within and across sectors, Creating an enabling environment

Defining the global health system and systematically mapping its network of actors

The global health system has faced significant expansion over the past few decades, including continued increase in both the number and diversity of actors operating within it. However, without a stronger understanding of what the global health system encompasses, coordination of actors and resources to addres today´s global health challenges will not be possible
April 30, 2018

Global

Scientific publication

Strengthening governance and accountability, Reorienting the model of care, Creating an enabling environment

Using Patient Reported Outcomes Measures to Promote Integrated Care

Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) have been introduced as standardised outcomes, but have not been implemented widely for disease targeted pathways of care, nor for geriatric patients who prefer functional performance and quality of life
April 30, 2018

Americas

Scientific publication

Reorienting the model of care

Strategy for revitalization of the primary health care in Cuba

Despite the existence of an integrated model of health systems and services, the research conducted in the areas of management, support, health services and finances show some phenomena that weaken the capacity of responding to the population's health requirements, particularly the first care level. The range of possibilities offered by the transforming process in the health sector encourages putting forward a revitalizing strategy centered on the capacity and need of innovating and further developing the Cuban primary health care strategy. The bases supporting the proposal, the objectives and the strategic areas of development were presented, with the focus on revitalizing the capacities of the health care system to articulate an effective, sustainable and integrated strategy. Such strategy may respond to the existing problems and meet the new health challenges to guarantee access, equity and sustained quality in health services. Authors: MSc. Pedro López Puig, MSc. Alina María ...
April 30, 2018

Americas

Scientific publication

Reorienting the model of care

Measuring procedure for the resolute capability of basic health care teams

Introduction: the resolute capability is a quality to be taken into account to improve the performance of the integrated service networks. Objective: to design a methodological procedure to evaluate the resolute capability of the basic health teams at the primary health care. Methods: developmental research study of health systems and services conducted from December 2012 through February 2013. An expert working group was created in the National School of Public Health. A literature and documentary review using Big 6 model was made. Some scales were set to analyze the results to be achieved in addition to the preparation of a questionnaire, an implementation guide and also a guide to analyze and to validate the results in practice. Results: the resulting instrument of national scope may be applied annually or biannually by the head of the basic working team and by others in the self-inspection or cross-inspection variants. The documentary evidence ...
April 25, 2018

Africa

Scientific publication

Empowering and engaging people and communities, Creating an enabling environment

The Influence of Family Physicians Within the South African District Health System: A Cross-Sectional Study

Evidence of the influence of family physicians on health care is required to assist managers and policy makers with human resource planning in Africa. The International argument for family physicians derives mainly from research in high-income countries, so this study aimed to evaluate the influence of family physicians on the South African district health system.
April 25, 2018

Americas

Scientific publication

Empowering and engaging people and communities, Coordinating services within and across sectors, Creating an enabling environment

Integrating Community Health Workers Into Medical Homes

Though evidence supports the value of community health workers (CHWs) in chronic disease self-management support, and authorities have called for expanding their roles within patient-centered medical homes (PCMSs), few PCMHs in Minnesota have incorporated these health workers into their care teams. They undertook a qualitative study to (1) identify facilitators and barriers to utilizing a CHW model among PCMHs in Minnesota, and (2) define roles played by this workforce within the PCMH team
April 14, 2018

Global

Scientific publication

Empowering and engaging people and communities, Reorienting the model of care, Creating an enabling environment

Health system innovations: adapting to rapid change

A fundamental challenge for health systems is the need to adapt to changes in the patterns of health service need, scientific and technological developments, and the economic and institutional contexts within which providers of health services are embedded. This is especially true of many low and middle-income countries, where the pace of multiple and interconnected changes is breath-taking.