Primary Health Care in Low-Income Countries

JAMA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 307 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Primary Health

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

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 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 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

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.

scholarly journals Guide posts for investment in primary health care and projected resource needs in 67 low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. e1500-e1510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Stenberg ◽  
Odd Hanssen ◽  
Melanie Bertram ◽  
Callum Brindley ◽  
Andreia Meshreky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Resource Needs ◽  
Modelling Study

scholarly journals Maternal mode of living and child health

2002 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane L.G. Dytz ◽  
Semíramis M. M. Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Reproductive Behavior ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Socioeconomic Conditions ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Mothers And Children ◽  
And Child Health

ln this article, maternal mode of living is investigated, examining both socioeconomic conditions and lifestyle factors, in order to identify to what extent health policies are tangibly meeting the needs of low income Brazilian mothers and children. Data are derived from unstructured interviews with 17 mothers with children underage 6, residing in the Federal District, Brazil. Their stories reveal a life marked by economic difficulties and inadequate living conditions, aggravated by early reproductive behavior, confinement to the home and no leisure. Although they have access to primary health care, the quality is inadequate. Increased awareness to the mother's situation is necessary in order to improve the health of young children.

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