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Contents tagged: family practice

Oct. 3, 2016 South-East Asia Publication

Coordinating services within and across sectors, Creating an enabling environment

Determinants of basic public health services provision by village doctors in China: using non-communicable diseases management as an example

To ensure equity and accessibility of public health care in rural areas, the Chinese central government has launched a series of policies to motivate village doctors to provide basic public health services. Using chronic disease management and prevention as an example, this study aims to identify factors associated with village doctors’ basic public health services provision and to formulate targeted interventions in rural China.

Increasing public health care subsidies received by individual village doctors, availability and attendance of training opportunities, and integrated management and New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS), a government-run voluntary insurance program for rural residents, contracting of village clinics are important factors in increasing basic public health services for chronic diseases provision in rural areas.

family practice, local health needs, primary care centres

March 25, 2018 Africa Publication

Engaging and empowering people and communities, Reorienting the model of care, Coordinating services within and across sectors

The perceived impact of family physicians on the district health system in South Africa: a cross-sectional survey

The 2008 World Health Report "Primary Health Care-Now More Than Ever" defines strong Primary Health Care (PHC) systems as those systems which offer first contact care that is patient-centred with an orientation to the patient´s family and community context, embedded in a service that is comprehensive, integrated, continuos, and community-orientated, and in which patient-care is well co-ordinated. This report warned against oversimplified approaches to PHC in developing countries, which only focus on priority deseases or rely on unsupported health workers who are poorly equipped for the complexity of PHC. The World Health Assembly supports the report´s recommendation that PHC should be offered by a multidisciplinary team that includes a family physician.

community, cross-sectional study, district health system, family practice, integrated care, patient-centred care, perceived health, primary health care

May 18, 2018 Eastern Mediterranean Publication

Engaging and empowering 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

community health services, family practice, healthcare facilities, physicians, primary health care, quality of health care

June 27, 2019 Global Publication

Engaging and empowering people and communities, Coordinating services within and across sectors, Creating an enabling environment

Challenges to patient centredness – a comparison of patient and doctor experiences from primary care

Many countries and international organisations, such as OECD and WHO, have chosen patient centredness as the approach to ensure that the patients’ needs, values, and preferences are appropriately considered in the health care meetings. Whereas most OECD countries show progress in implementing patient-centred care, no country performs in the top group on all indicators in cross-country comparison. Patient-centred consultation methodologies vary, but reoccurring components can be identified in the literature, such as the patient’s narrative and collaboration.
This article designed an observational study to investigate the level of patients’ and doctors’ ratings of patient-centred aspects of the primary care consultation.

comminication, doctor-patient, family practice, patient-centered care, shared decision making