Health Systems and Reform

08/16/2021

Strengthening the traditional healing sector in Canada could help heal the cultural illness that leads to individual illness. Learn more about the perspectives of First Nations peoples and communities on developing a holistic healthcare system that recognizes, adequately supports, and respects traditional medicines and healing ways as part of a borderless healthcare system.

Free access article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2021.1943814

Strengthening the traditional healing sector in Canada could help heal the cultural illness that leads to individual illness. Learn more about the perspectives of First Nations peoples and communities on developing a holistic healthcare system that recognizes, adequately supports, and respects traditional medicines and healing ways as part of a borderless healthcare system.

Free access article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2021.1943814

08/09/2021

Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy (HDPs) are responsible for 70K maternal deaths globally, killing a woman every 11 minutes. Unfortunately, the level of adherence to guidelines on postpartum management of HDPs in tertiary hospitals in Nigeria is poor, and worse scenarios should be expected for secondary- and primary-level facilities 🇳🇬🤰🏽

Learn more about it: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2021.1932229

Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy (HDPs) are responsible for 70K maternal deaths globally, killing a woman every 11 minutes. Unfortunately, the level of adherence to guidelines on postpartum management of HDPs in tertiary hospitals in Nigeria is poor, and worse scenarios should be expected for secondary- and primary-level facilities 🇳🇬🤰🏽

Learn more about it: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2021.1932229

06/15/2021

Check one of our latest research papers to learn how authors measured the survival of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia under Mexico’s public health insurance for the population treated under Seguro Popular. This paper provides lessons for Mexico’s evolving health system and for countries moving toward universal health coverage.

Read it now https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2021.1914897

Check one of our latest research papers to learn how authors measured the survival of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia under Mexico’s public health insurance for the population treated under Seguro Popular. This paper provides lessons for Mexico’s evolving health system and for countries moving toward universal health coverage.

Read it now https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2021.1914897

05/11/2021

Authors Adanna Chukwuma, Hratchia Lylozian & Estelle Gong examine how purchasing decisions in Armenia may contribute to barriers in using high-quality health care, particularly for non-communicable diseases, and present six lessons for policy reform.

Read now: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2021.1898186

Authors Adanna Chukwuma, Hratchia Lylozian & Estelle Gong examine how purchasing decisions in Armenia may contribute to barriers in using high-quality health care, particularly for non-communicable diseases, and present six lessons for policy reform.

Read now: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2021.1898186

05/07/2021

Authors Grace A. Kabaniha, Praveen Gedam, Henk Bekedam & Indu Bhushan describe the steps that the Government of India has taken to ensure no financial barriers to access for COVID-19 services and suggest some lessons that can be drawn from the experience.

Read it here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2021.1897323

Authors Grace A. Kabaniha, Praveen Gedam, Henk Bekedam & Indu Bhushan describe the steps that the Government of India has taken to ensure no financial barriers to access for COVID-19 services and suggest some lessons that can be drawn from the experience.

Read it here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2021.1897323

04/27/2021

Estimating the required resources for implementing an essential health services package (EHSP) is vital to examine its feasibility and affordability. In one of our most recent published research articles, Alemayehu Hailu, Getachew Teshome Eregata, Karin Stenberg & Ole Frithjof Norheim estimate the financial resources required to implement the Ethiopian EHSP from 2020 to 2030.

Learn more https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2020.1870061

Estimating the required resources for implementing an essential health services package (EHSP) is vital to examine its feasibility and affordability. In one of our most recent published research articles, Alemayehu Hailu, Getachew Teshome Eregata, Karin Stenberg & Ole Frithjof Norheim estimate the financial resources required to implement the Ethiopian EHSP from 2020 to 2030.

Learn more https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2020.1870061

03/08/2021

Harnessing the Power of Networks of Care for Universal Health Coverage

This Special issue of @HSRJournal provides a detailed overview of the #NetworksOfCare concept through a multi-method scoping study and case studies from six diverse settings, providing health workers with the language and insights to describe and adopt the system to their local context.

Learn how #NetworksOfCare can help #HealthSystems improve access to and quality of care, while improving health service delivery and outcomes for patients.

Networks of Care provide a practicable and measurable means to achieve #UniversalHealthCoverage. More here: https://buff.ly/3kUV9iN

(2020). Harnessing the Power of Networks of Care for Universal Health Coverage. Health Systems & Reform: Vol. 6, Developing a Common Understanding of Networks of Care, e1840825.

03/04/2021

In overcrowded hospitals in Dar es Salaam, #Tanzania, high- and low-risk patients in different stages of labor vie for attention in the same location, with delays to services, and insufficient care from the few available staff resulting in poor outcomes even for low-risk patients. By treating women in labor at multiple facilities including health centers nearer to where they live, many of these challenges can be avoided. This includes less overcrowding at hospitals as well as fewer delays for women who require emergency transportation to the next level of care.

Learn how #NetworksOfCare can improve efficiency in healthcare delivery access and #QualityOfCare in this week’s Tanzania case study: https://buff.ly/2PjMJFP

03/01/2021

Averting Maternal Death and Disability in an Urban Network of Care in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: A Descriptive Case Study

Providers at one of the #NetworksOfCare referral hospitals in #Tanzania 🇹🇿 noted that improvements in teamwork in labor and delivery resulted in a decline in their facility’s maternal death rates.

Learn more in this week’s case study: https://buff.ly/2PjMJFP

(2020). Averting Maternal Death and Disability in an Urban Network of Care in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: A Descriptive Case Study. Health Systems & Reform: Vol. 6, Developing a Common Understanding of Networks of Care, e1834303.

02/25/2021

During the first 2 years of implementing a #NetworksOfCare in Ifanadiana District, #Madagascar under-five and neonatal mortality declined by 19% and 36% respectively. This was achieved by bringing care closer to poor and rural communities.

Learn more: https://buff.ly/3dAyrux

During the first 2 years of implementing a #NetworksOfCare in Ifanadiana District, #Madagascar under-five and neonatal mortality declined by 19% and 36% respectively. This was achieved by bringing care closer to poor and rural communities.

Learn more: https://buff.ly/3dAyrux

02/22/2021

Networks of Care in Rural Madagascar for Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Ifanadiana District

#HealthSystems can provide care that is accessible to all, responsive to patient needs, adaptive to system failures, timely and efficient when using a #NetworksOfCare approach, as this #Madagascar case study shows: https://buff.ly/3dAyrux #HealthReform

(2020). Networks of Care in Rural Madagascar for Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Ifanadiana District. Health Systems & Reform: Vol. 6, Developing a Common Understanding of Networks of Care, e1841437.

02/20/2021

Applying a Client-centered Approach to Maternal and Neonatal Networks of Care: Case Studies from Urban and Rural Nigeria

#NetworksOfCare extend the reach of routine and emergency maternal and neonatal health services by coordinating resources as these two #Nigeria case studies illustrate.

More here: https://buff.ly/37rSZSa #HealthSystems #HealthReform

(2020). Applying a Client-centered Approach to Maternal and Neonatal Networks of Care: Case Studies from Urban and Rural Nigeria. Health Systems & Reform: Vol. 6, Developing a Common Understanding of Networks of Care, e1841450.

02/18/2021

In just 18 months, #NetworksOfCare in northern #Nigeria realized a 37% reduction in #MaternalMortality by identifying early on and prioritizing high-risk pregnancies to referral facilities.

Two case studies in Nigeria illustrate different approaches: https://buff.ly/37rSZSa

In just 18 months, #NetworksOfCare in northern #Nigeria realized a 37% reduction in #MaternalMortality by identifying early on and prioritizing high-risk pregnancies to referral facilities.

Two case studies in Nigeria illustrate different approaches: https://buff.ly/37rSZSa

02/11/2021

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Set of Descriptive Case Studies Presented with the Networks of Care Framework

The four-domain framework of #NetworksOfCare is adaptable, enabling it to respond to pressing context-specific primary care challenges.

Learn more: #PrimaryNetworksOfCare

(2020). Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Set of Descriptive Case Studies Presented with the Networks of Care Framework. Health Systems & Reform: Vol. 6, Developing a Common Understanding of Networks of Care, e1840824.

02/08/2021

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Set of Descriptive Case Studies Presented with the Networks of Care Framework

The global health literature tends to highlight clinical outcomes failing to describe the systems that buttress the interventions. The #NetworksOfCare scoping study takes a different approach, and sees the "forest for the trees:"

Learn more: #HealthReform

(2020). Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Set of Descriptive Case Studies Presented with the Networks of Care Framework. Health Systems & Reform: Vol. 6, Developing a Common Understanding of Networks of Care, e1840824.

02/04/2021

Developing a Common Understanding of Networks of Care through a Scoping Study

Patients' health outcomes suffer when healthcare services are fragmented, difficult to access and providers are siloed.

#NetworksOfCare present an alternative vision and strategy for dealing with common #HealthSystems challenges.

Learn more at: https://buff.ly/2YwKhxc

(2020). Developing a Common Understanding of Networks of Care through a Scoping Study. Health Systems & Reform: Vol. 6, Developing a Common Understanding of Networks of Care, e1810921.

02/01/2021

#NetworksOfCare feature four interdependent domains of activity at multiple levels of #HealthSystems:

1) Agreement and Enabling Environment,
2) Operational Standards,
3) Quality, Efficiency and Responsibility, and
4) Learning and Adaptation.

More at: https://buff.ly/2YwKhxc

#NetworksOfCare feature four interdependent domains of activity at multiple levels of #HealthSystems:

1) Agreement and Enabling Environment,
2) Operational Standards,
3) Quality, Efficiency and Responsibility, and
4) Learning and Adaptation.

More at: https://buff.ly/2YwKhxc

01/29/2021

This Special Issue describes what makes #NetworksOfCare successful in caring for those with complicated health problems, and reducing #MaternalDeath.

Networks of care in rural #Nepal provide compelling evidence: https://buff.ly/3a9lAMO #HealthSystems

This Special Issue describes what makes #NetworksOfCare successful in caring for those with complicated health problems, and reducing #MaternalDeath.

Networks of care in rural #Nepal provide compelling evidence: https://buff.ly/3a9lAMO #HealthSystems

01/25/2021

The Logarithmic Spiral of Networks of Care for Expectant Families in Rural Nepal: A Descriptive Case Study

In Nepal, One Heart Worldwide build #NetworksOfCare around the needs of an expectant woman. The model recognizes that there are other key players in her life necessary for the delivery of a healthy baby 👶 #MaternalHealth

Learn more here:

(2020). The Logarithmic Spiral of Networks of Care for Expectant Families in Rural Nepal: A Descriptive Case Study. Health Systems & Reform: Vol. 6, Developing a Common Understanding of Networks of Care, e1824520.

01/22/2021

Building Trust to Save Lives in a Metro Manila Public-Private Network of Care: A Descriptive Case Study of Quirino Recognized Partners in Quezon City, Philippines

To address the limitations imposed by #COVID19, Quirino Recognized Partners, a #NetworksOfCare in Manila, reduced the unsafe congestion of hospital deliveries by leveraging lying-in clinics, enabling continuity of safe patient care.

Learn more here:

(2020). Building Trust to Save Lives in a Metro Manila Public-Private Network of Care: A Descriptive Case Study of Quirino Recognized Partners in Quezon City, Philippines. Health Systems & Reform: Vol. 6, Developing a Common Understanding of Networks of Care, e1815473.

01/18/2021

Building Trust to Save Lives in a Metro Manila Public-Private Network of Care: A Descriptive Case Study of Quirino Recognized Partners in Quezon City, Philippines

"The Quirino Recognized Partners is a healthcare service delivery network built on trust.” ~ Dr. Bernadino.

Learn how this public-private #NetworksOfCare was built to address hospital delivery congestion in Manila, Philippines 🇵🇭

(2020). Building Trust to Save Lives in a Metro Manila Public-Private Network of Care: A Descriptive Case Study of Quirino Recognized Partners in Quezon City, Philippines. Health Systems & Reform: Vol. 6, Developing a Common Understanding of Networks of Care, e1815473.

01/16/2021

Resilient health systems here!

01/16/2021

See this special issue on Networks of Care in Health Systems and Reform!

01/16/2021

#NetworksOfCare support resilient health systems to respond to the shocks of health crises, including COVID-19.

Learn more on our Special Issue sponsored by the Clinton Health Access Initiative & the Gates Foundation: "Developing a Common Understanding of Networks of Care." #healthsystems #globalhealth

01/13/2021

Let’s start 2021 by checking "Developing a Common Understanding of Networks of Care," our new Special Issue sponsored by the Clinton Health Access Initiative & the Gates Foundation.

Read our introductory article by Mickey Chopra and Muhammad Ali Pate to learn more about #NetworksOfCare
https://buff.ly/37Jp6Ml

Let’s start 2021 by checking "Developing a Common Understanding of Networks of Care," our new Special Issue sponsored by the Clinton Health Access Initiative & the Gates Foundation.

Read our introductory article by Mickey Chopra and Muhammad Ali Pate to learn more about #NetworksOfCare
https://buff.ly/37Jp6Ml

12/11/2020

HS&R Special Issue: Networks Of Care

#NetworksOfCare support resilient health systems to respond appropriately to the shocks of health crises, including COVID-19.

Learn more about this strategy on our Special Issue sponsored by the Clinton Health Access Initiative and the Gates Foundation "Developing a Common Understanding of Networks of Care." #healthsystems #global health

12/07/2020

Today we are launching "Developing a Common Understanding of Networks of Care," our new Special Issue sponsored by the Clinton Health Access Initiative & the Gates Foundation,

Check the introductory article by Mickey Chopra & Muhammad Ali Pate and learn more about #NetworksOfCare https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23288604.2020.1834304