IPCHS

Contents tagged: service delivery

May 7, 2018 Americas, Global Publication

Engaging and empowering people and communities, Creating an enabling environment

Characteristics of Indigenous primary health care service delivery models: a systematic scoping review

Indigenous populations have poorer health outcomes compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts. The experience of colonisation, and the long-term effects of being colonised, has caused inequalities in Indigenous health status, including physical, social, emotional, and mental health and wellbeing. This systematic scoping review aims to identify the characteristics of Indigenous primary health care service delivery models.

aboriginal and torres strait islander, alaska native, indigenous women, models of care, primary health care, service delivery

Oct. 15, 2018 Africa Publication

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

From Stumbling Block to Enabler: The Role of Public Financial Management in Health Service Delivery in Tanzania and Zambia

The way governments manage resources through the budget cycle has important implications for health policy and whether governments achieve societal objectives such as efficiency, equity, quality, and accountability. Studies found a positive association between health service delivery outcomes and good governance of public finance, however the mechanisms through which public financial management affects service delivery remains underexplored. This article maps the three stages of the budget cycle to common performance criteria used in health service delivery. It applies this approach to experiences in Tanzania and Zambia.

budget management, expenditure, facilities, health systems, management, public financial management, service delivery

March 13, 2019 Global Publication

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

A compendium of tools and resources for improving the quality of health services

In an attempt to consolidate the work of the WHO Department of Service Delivery and Safety (SDS) on quality improvement, a SDS cross-cut team has produced a compendium of tools and resources on quality improvement, developed within the SDS, that are applicable for country support. It includes resources on IPCHS and community engagement among others. It also includes practical examples of how the tools and resources have been applied in-country, including relevant links with other areas, such as measurement. Ministries of health, facility quality improvement teams, researchers, development agencies and any organization or individual working to improve the quality of health service delivery can benefit from this compendium.

improve the quality of care, local health needs, partnership, quality of health care, research, service delivery

Nov. 16, 2020 Africa Publication

Engaging and empowering people and communities, Strengthening governance and accountability, Reorienting the model of care, Coordinating services within and across sectors, Creating an enabling environment

Re-organising primary health care to respond to the Coronavirus epidemic in Cape Town, South Africa

Cape Town is currently one of the hotspots for COVID-19 on the African continent. The Metropolitan Health Services have re-organised their primary health care (PHC) services to tackle the epidemic with a community-orientated primary care perspective. Two key goals have guided the re-organisation, the need to maintain social distancing and reduce risk to people using the services and the need to prepare for an influx of people with COVID-19. Facilities were re-organised to have ‘screening and streaming’ at the entrance and patients were separated into hot and cold streams.

corona virus, covid-19, primary health care, sars-cov-2, service delivery

Nov. 24, 2020 Europe, Global Event

Reorienting the model of care, Coordinating services within and across sectors, Creating an enabling environment

IFIC Ireland Webinar: Medium and Long-term Impact of COVID-19. Making Integrated Care Happen

The International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) Ireland hosts and facilitates a series of webinars titled ‘Making Integrated Care Happen’ which forms one of the key delivery mechanisms enabling knowledge mobilisation across all stakeholders with an interest in developing and implementing integrated care within the healthcare systems on the island of Ireland.

The last session in IFIC Ireland 2020 series will focus on the medium and long term impacts of COVID-19 on the person and the implications for health and social care delivery.

Prof Lynne Turner-Stokes, King's College London, Northwick Park Hospital - Long-term impacts of COVID-19 and meeting the needs for Rehabilitation (40 minutes) will present research and clinical understanding of how COVID-19 may continue to impact those diagnosed long after the initial course of the disease.

Anne O'Connor, Chief Operations Officer at Health Service Executive (HSE) - Impacts of COVID-19 on service delivery, design and integration (30 minutes ...

covid-19, health and social care services, impacts, integrated health and social care, pandemic, rehabilitation, service delivery

Nov. 15, 2021 Africa Publication

Integrating diabetes, hypertension and HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa: a Delphi consensus study on international best practice

Although HIV continues to have a high prevalence among adults in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCD) such as diabetes and hypertension is increasing rapidly. There is an urgent need to expand the capacity of healthcare systems in SSA to provide NCD services and scale up existing chronic care management pathways. This study highlights the outcomes which may form key components of future complex interventions to define a model of integrated healthcare delivery for diabetes, hypertension and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.

healthcare utilization, hiv, integration, noncommunicable diseases, service delivery, sub-saharan africa

Feb. 17, 2022 Europe, Global Publication

Introducing The Lancet Global Health Commission on financing primary health care: putting people at the centre

Primary health care (PHC) is an essential component of high-performing health systems, delivering effective, affordable, and inclusive care to people when they need it, and providing the foundation for both universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals. As the platform for providing basic health services and essential public health functions, and for responding to the ongoing challenges of infectious disease and to the rapidly expanding burden of chronic conditions, PHC has a commitment to equity and social justice. Policymakers worldwide are seeking to strengthen their primary care systems to secure the health of their populations across the lifecourse.

Despite the calls to action in the Declarations of Alma Ata (1978) and Astana (2018), PHC is failing to meet the needs of the people—users, providers, and communities—who should be firmly at its centre. Resources that are destined for PHC often do not reach frontline providers. Services are often ...

alma-ata, declaration of astana, efficiency, equity in health, financial sustainability, improving care, people-centered care, primary health care, service delivery, sustainable development goals (sdgs), universal health coverage

April 5, 2022 Global Publication

The Lancet Global Health Commission on financing primary health care: putting people at the centre

Executive summary

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the need for well-functioning primary health care (PHC) into sharp focus. PHC is the best platform for providing basic health interventions (including effective management of non-communicable diseases) and essential public health functions. PHC is widely recognised as a key component of all high-performing health systems and is an essential foundation of universal health coverage.

PHC was famously set as a global priority in the 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration. More recently, the 2018 Astana Declaration on PHC made a similar call for universal coverage of basic health care across the life cycle, as well as essential public health functions, community engagement, and a multisectoral approach to health. Yet in most low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), PHC is not delivering on the promises of these declarations. In many places across the globe, PHC does not meet the needs of the people—including both users and providers ...

alma-ata, declaration of astana, efficiency, equity in health, financial sustainability, improving care, people-centered care, primary health care, service delivery, spending health care, sustainable development goals (sdgs), universal health coverage

June 24, 2022 Global Publication

Health system performance assessment

Health policy-making and reform require, first and foremost, a sound understanding of how a health system is performing. To assist countries in this process, the Health Systems Performance Assessment Framework for Universal Health Coverage offers a comprehensive attempt at guiding the collection and analysis of health system data in relation to policy goals and 21st century challenges.

This book is grounded in the premise that any whole-of-sector assessment exercise should collect information on and examine the performance of both the functions of the health system as well as its performance goals. Thus, it follows through each of the health system functions (i.e., health system governance, financing, resource generation and service delivery), outlining their purpose, the sub-functions needed to fulfil that purpose, and assessment areas to evaluate how well a function performs.

This innovative framework conceptually links health system functions to intermediate and final health system goals. As a result ...

health policy-making, policy reform, health system performance, performance evaluation, resource generation, service delivery, uhc