scholarly journals Effects of Disaster on Primary Health Care in Low Income Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Kirti Ray ◽  
Jagadishwor Ghimire ◽  
Rajendra Kumar BC
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Primary Health Care System ◽  
High Exposure ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
The People

Primary health care is considered to be a practical approach to provide basic curative, preventive and promotive health care as an accessible medium for the people particularly in low resource income countries in an affordable way. This paper reviewed that an integrated primary health care system could reduce fundamental vulnerability of disasters; thereafter protect the health facilities and services for providing health programs. Further it focused on the increased uptake on health services to build resilience among individuals of low resource countries having high exposure to disasters. It also provides an idea on the practices adapted for gaining resilience of primary health care of low resource regions like Africa, South and South East Asia which are frequently exposed to disasters. However, this study did not focus on the health governance, pre-hospital disaster management and funding policies which are limited at present in low income countries affected by frequent disasters.Keywords: Disasters; disaster management; low income countries; primary health care; resilience.

scholarly journals Results From Screening Immigrants of Low‐Income Countries: Data From a Public Primary Health Care

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Hladun ◽  
Albert Grau ◽  
Esther Esteban ◽  
Josep M. Jansà
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Primary Health

scholarly journals The primary health care: true advocate of health

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 4211
Author(s):  
Chippagiri Soumya
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Health Care Delivery System ◽  
Primary Health Care System ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
The People ◽  
Care System

The health care delivery system in India faces challenges due to disparity in geographical, cultural and economic aspects. Nonetheless, health is an issue which brings all humans under one umbrella. It is primary health care that lays the foundation on which health of the people are built and protected. Realizing the strengthens of the primary health care system is of utmost importance especially in the era of vaccinations and disease eliminations. This requires for the health system to move towards mass approach and heath protection concept sooner than later. And what better way than the primary health care system?

Common Mental Disorders and Primary Health Care: Current Practice in Low-Income Countries

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 166-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Abas ◽  
Florence Baingana ◽  
Jeremy Broadhead ◽  
Eduardo Iacoponi ◽  
Jane Vanderpyl
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Common Mental Disorders ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Primary Health

scholarly journals Diagnosing dementia and cognitive dysfunction in the elderly in primary health care: A systematic review

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas N.C. Pelegrini ◽  
Gabriela M.P. Mota ◽  
Caio F. Ramos ◽  
Edson Jesus ◽  
Francisco A.C. Vale
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Cognitive Dysfunction ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Primary Health

ABSTRACT. Dementia is a public health issue making the screening and diagnosing of dementia and its prodromal phases in all health settings imperative. Objective: using PRISMA, this systematic review aimed to identify how low-, middle-, and high-income countries establish dementia and cognitive dysfunction diagnoses in primary health care. Methods: studies from the past five years in English, Spanish, and Portuguese were retrieved from Scopus, PubMed, Embase, Lilacs, Scielo, and Web of Science. Of 1987 articles, 33 were selected for analysis. Results: only three articles were from middle-income countries and there were no studies from low-income countries. The most used instrument was the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and dementia criteria were based on experts’ recommendation as well as on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10), respectively. Conclusion: differences between these criteria among high- and middle-income countries were observed.

scholarly journals Donor and Domestic Financing of Primary Health Care in Low Income Countries

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Paul Shaw ◽  
Hong Wang ◽  
Daniel Kress ◽  
Dana Hovig
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Primary Health

scholarly journals PHC Progression Model: a novel mixed-methods tool for measuring primary health care system capacity

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. e001822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah L Ratcliffe ◽  
Dan Schwarz ◽  
Lisa R Hirschhorn ◽  
Cintia Cejas ◽  
Abdoulaye Diallo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
System Capacity ◽  
Primary Health Care System ◽  
Progression Model ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Early Results

High-performing primary health care (PHC) is essential for achieving universal health coverage. However, in many countries, PHC is weak and unable to deliver on its potential. Improvement is often limited by a lack of actionable data to inform policies and set priorities. To address this gap, the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (PHCPI) was formed to strengthen measurement of PHC in low-income and middle-income countries in order to accelerate improvement. PHCPI’s Vital Signs Profile was designed to provide a comprehensive snapshot of the performance of a country’s PHC system, yet quantitative information about PHC systems’ capacity to deliver high-quality, effective care was limited by the scarcity of existing data sources and metrics. To systematically measure the capacity of PHC systems, PHCPI developed the PHC Progression Model, a rubric-based mixed-methods assessment tool. The PHC Progression Model is completed through a participatory process by in-country teams and subsequently reviewed by PHCPI to validate results and ensure consistency across countries. In 2018, PHCPI partnered with five countries to pilot the tool and found that it was feasible to implement with fidelity, produced valid results, and was highly acceptable and useful to stakeholders. Pilot results showed that both the participatory assessment process and resulting findings yielded novel and actionable insights into PHC strengths and weaknesses. Based on these positive early results, PHCPI will support expansion of the PHC Progression Model to additional countries to systematically and comprehensively measure PHC system capacity in order to identify and prioritise targeted improvement efforts.

Primary Health care and Disasters—The Current State of the Literature: What We Know, Gaps and Next Steps

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 184-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynda Redwood-Campbell ◽  
Jonathan Abrahams
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
World Health ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Response And Recovery ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractIntroduction: The 2009 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction/Emergency Preparedness (DRR/EP) and the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 demonstrate increased international commitment to DRR/EP in addition to response and recovery. In addition, the World Health Report 2008 has re-focused the world's attention on the renewal of Primary Health Care (PHC) as a set of values/principles for all sectors. Evidence suggests that access to comprehensive PHC improves health outcomes and an integrated PHC approach may improve health in low income countries (LICs). Strong PHC health systems can provide stronger health emergency management, which reinforce each other for healthier communities.Problem: The global re-emphasis of PHC recently necessitates the health sector and the broader disaster community to consider health emergency management from the perspective of PHC. How PHC is being described in the literature related to disasters and the quality of this literature is reviewed. Identifying which topics/lessons learned are being published helps to identify key lessons learned, gaps and future directions.Methods: Fourteen major scientific and grey literature databases searched. Primary Health Care or Primary Care coupled with the term disaster was searched (title or abstract). The 2009 ISDR definition of disaster and the 1978 World Health Organization definition of Primary Health Care were used. 119 articles resulted.Results: Literature characteristics; 16% research papers, only 29% target LICs, 8% of authors were from LICs, 7% clearly defined PHC, 50% used PHC to denote care provided by clinicians and 4% cited PHC values and principles. Most topics related to disaster response. Key topics; true need for PHC, mental health, chronic disease, models of PHC, importance of PHC soon after a natural disaster relative to acute care, methods of surge capacity, utilization patterns in recovery, access to vulnerable populations, rebuilding with the PHC approach and using current PHC infrastructure to build capacity for disasters.Conclusions: Primary Health Care is very important for effective health emergency management during response and recovery, but also for risk reduction, including preparedness. There is need to; increase the quality of this research, clarify terminology, encourage paper authorship from LICs, develop and validate PHC- specific disaster indicators and to encourage organizations involved in PHC disaster activities to publish data. Lessons learned from high-income countries need contextual analysis about applicability in low-income countries.

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