Effect of the performance of primary health care service providers on the wellbeing of cassava farmers in Abia State, Nigeria

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 131-140
Author(s):  
Nwafor S. C. ◽  
Ogbonna K. N. ◽  
Kanu N. A. ◽  
Adegbola J. A.
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Primary Health Care Service ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Health Care Service Providers

scholarly journals The Impact of COVID-19 on the Performance of Primary Health Care Service Providers in a Capitation Payment System: A Case Study from Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1407
Author(s):  
Piotr Korneta ◽  
Magdalena Kludacz-Alessandri ◽  
Renata Walczak
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Payment System ◽  
Primary Health Care Service ◽  
Capitation Payment ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Health Care Service Providers

In Poland, as in many other countries, the use of capitation payment schemes in primary health care is popular. Despite this popularity, the subject literature discusses its role in decreasing the quality of primary medical services. This problem is particularly important during COVID-19, when medical entities provide telehealth services to patients. The objective of the study is to examine the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the performance of the primary health care providers in Poland under a capitation payment scheme. In this study the authors use data from interviews with personnel of medical entities and financial and administrative reports of primary health care providers in order to identify how this crisis situation impacts the performance of primary health care entities, under capitation payment system. The performance indicators include both the financial and quality measures. Selected to the case study primary health care service providers significantly improved their profitability due to considerable costs savings and reduction of services provided to patients in a time of COVID-19 pandemic. Capitation payment system proved to be inefficient, in the studied pandemic period, in terms of the services provided by primary health care service providers to patients and the funds paid to them, in exchange, by the government entities.

scholarly journals Community health worker in hard-to-reach rural areas of Myanmar: filling primary health care service gaps

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angkana Sommanustweechai ◽  
Weerasak Putthasri ◽  
Mya Lay Nwe ◽  
Saw Thetlya Aung ◽  
Mya Min Theint ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Health Worker ◽  
Community Health Worker ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Primary Health Care Service ◽  
Primary Health

scholarly journals Community participation in health service reform: the development of an innovative remote Aboriginal primary health-care service

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Reeve ◽  
John Humphreys ◽  
John Wakerman ◽  
Vicki Carroll ◽  
Maureen Carter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Aboriginal Health ◽  
Primary Health Care Service ◽  
Disadvantaged Area ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Comprehensive Primary Health Care

The aim of this study was to describe the reorientation of a remote primary health-care service, in the Kimberley region of Australia, its impact on access to services and the factors instrumental in bringing about change. A unique community-initiated health service partnership was developed between a community-controlled Aboriginal health organisation, a government hospital and a population health unit, in order to overcome the challenges of delivering primary health care to a dispersed, highly disadvantaged Aboriginal population in a very remote area. The shared goals and clear delineation of responsibilities achieved through the partnership reoriented an essentially acute hospital-based service to a prevention-focussed comprehensive primary health-care service, with a focus on systematic screening for chronic disease, interdisciplinary follow up, health promotion, community advocacy and primary prevention. This formal partnership enabled the primary health-care service to meet the major challenges of providing a sustainable, prevention-focussed service in a very remote and socially disadvantaged area.

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