Health System Support for Childbirth care in Southern Tanzania: Results from a Health Facility Census. [PDF]
Progress towards reaching Millennium Development Goals four (child health) and five (maternal health) is lagging behind, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, despite increasing efforts to scale up high impact interventions.
Ronsmans, Carine +19 more
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Challenges and solutions to nurse-delivered integrated primary health care in Nelson Mandela Bay
Background: Delivery of a comprehensive and integrated primary health care service to increase healthcare access, quality, equity and efficiency requires an effective working environment.
Zubrina Baartman +2 more
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Strategies for Building Delivery Science in an Integrated Health Care System [PDF]
Health systems today have increasing opportunities and imperatives to conduct delivery science, which is applied research that evaluates clinical or organizational practices that systems can implement or encourage. Examples include research on eliminating racial/ethnic disparities in hypertension management and on identifying the types of patients who ...
Tracy A, Lieu, Philip R, Madvig
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Primary health care delivery models in rural and remote Australia - a systematic review [PDF]
© 2008 Wakerman et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and ...
Entwistle Philip +20 more
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Psychology can be indispensable to health care reform and the patient-centered medical home
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was passed into legislation in March 2010, making health care reform a reality. Perhaps the most well-developed model of primary care that aligns with the PPACA's agenda is the patient-centered ...
Runyan, Christine N.
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The significance of information standards for development of integrated health information system [PDF]
Information systems play a significant role in helping to improve health outcomes and decision-making at the point of care, as well as in the planning and funding of care.
Luić Ljerka, Striber-Devaja Dubravka
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Role and outcomes of community health workers in HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa : a systematic review [PDF]
Introduction: The provision of HIV treatment and care in sub-Saharan Africa faces multiple challenges, including weak health systems and attrition of trained health workers. One potential response to overcome these challenges has been to engage community
Grace W Mwai +13 more
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Understanding new models of integrated care in developed countries: a systematic review
Background: The NHS has been challenged to adopt new integrated models of service delivery that are tailored to local populations. Evidence from the international literature is needed to support the development and implementation of these new models of ...
Susan Baxter +5 more
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# Background Maternal and infant deaths can be prevented through integrated service delivery during pregnancy, postpartum, and early childhood. Our study analyses the gaps and opportunities associated with integrating maternal, newborn, and child health
Halima Tougri +8 more
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Changes in Quality of Health Care Delivery after Vertical Integration [PDF]
ObjectivesTo fill an empirical gap in the literature by examining changes in quality of care measures occurring when multispecialty clinic systems were acquired by hospital‐owned, vertically integrated health care delivery systems in the Twin Cities area.Data Sources/Study SettingAdministrative data for health plan enrollees attributed to treatment and
Caroline S, Carlin +2 more
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