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Community-based Health Planning and Services programme in Ghana: a systematic review. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Introduction Ghana established Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) as the primary point of contact for primary healthcare in 1999. CHPS has since emerged as the country’s primary strategy for providing close-to-client healthcare delivery,
Adusei AB, Bour H, Amu H, Afriyie A.
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The legal path for priority setting in Chile: a critical analysis to improve health planning and stewardship [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
Health systems have committed their path to universal health coverage using health planning to accomplish their goals of efficiency, equity and sustainability.
Manuel Antonio Espinoza, Manuel Antonio Espinoza, Baltica Cabieses, Baltica Cabieses, Carolina Goic, Alejandro Andrade   +5 more
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Assessing selection procedures and roles of Community Health Volunteers and Community Health Management Committees in Ghana’s Community-based Health Planning and Services program

PLoS ONE, 2021
Background Community participation in health care delivery will ensure service availability and accessibility and guarantee community ownership of the program.
Evelyn Sakeah, R. Aborigo, C. Debpuur, E. Nonterah, A. Oduro, J. Awoonor-Williams   +5 more
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Implementing long-term care systems in the Americas: a regional strategy

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2021
The Region of the Americas is facing accelerated demographic and epidemiological changes. As these trends will continue in future years, long-term care needs are expected to rise. How can countries respond to these challenges?
Pablo Villalobos Dintrans, Mallika Mathur, Emmanuel González-Bautista, Jorge Browne, Carolina Hommes, Enrique Vega   +5 more
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Approaches and Components of Health Workforce Planning Models: A Systematic Review [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023
Background: To date, there is still no uniformity in forecasting models for health workforce planning (HWFP). Different countries use various HWFP models, some of which are context-specific.
Somaieh Bosak, Shahram Yazdani, Mohammad Hossein Ayati   +2 more
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Does a public single payer system deliver integrated care? A national survey study among professional stakeholders in Denmark

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2008
Background: Integrated health care delivery is a goal of health care systems; to date there has been limited information on the integration of medical care in practice.
Martin Strandberg-Larsen, Allan Krasnik
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Evaluation of Mental Indicators of Healthy City from Citizens' Point of View (Case Study: Shahriar, Iran) [PDF]

توسعه پایدار شهری, 2023
Health-oriented urban planning is a concept in which the link between the city and the mental and physical health of citizens is considered as a basic principle in order to increase the level of their quality of life. The idea of a healthy city, which is
Aliakbar Taghipour, Seyedeh Mahta Shahmiri, Parsa Ahmadi Dehrashid   +2 more
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World Health Organization building blocks in rural community health services: An integrative review

Health Science Reports, 2021
Introduction Developing and adapting health service models to effectively meet the needs of rural and remote communities is an international priority given inequities in health outcomes compared with metropolitan counterparts.
Deborah A. Stockton, Cathrine Fowler, Deborah Debono, Joanne Travaglia   +3 more
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Doing, planning, “planning-doing:” a case of municipal pragmatism in collaboration with a university during the COVID-19 pandemic

Salud Colectiva, 2021
This article critically analyzes local governments’ abilities to face the COVID-19 pandemic by examining an instance of technical-scientific cooperation between a municipality and a university located in the northern Rio de Janeiro (state) beginning in ...
Helvo Slomp Junior, Karla Santa Cruz Coelho, Delba Machado Barros, Tulio Batista Franco, Kathleen Tereza da Cruz   +4 more
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Is evidence-informed urban health planning a myth or reality? Lessons from a qualitative assessment in three Asian cities

Health Policy and Planning, 2019
City governments are well-positioned to effectively address urban health challenges in the context of rapid urbanization in Asia. They require good quality and timely evidence to inform their planning decisions. In this article, we report our analyses of
T. Mirzoev, Ak Narayan Poudel, Stefanie Gissing, T. Doan, T. Ferdous, S. Regmi, Minh Duc Duong, S. Baral, Obindra B. Chand, R. Huque, V. M. Hoang, H. Elsey   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source