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PHCPI Launches New Digital Report: “If Health Systems Could Talk: Illuminating the Vital Signs of Strong Primary Health Care”

New digital report shares insights from the process of creating the first 23 Vital Signs Profiles – PHCPI’s signature measurement tool – and set the scene for the next chapter of PHCPI’s work.

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Exemplars in Global Health: Costa Rica’s health success due to PHC – not because it’s a ‘crazy, magical place’

Exemplars in Global Health talk with Hannah Ratcliffe, Ariadne Labs’ former associate director of research for PHC, and Dr. Madeline Pesec, a PHC research assistant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, about their research on the Costa Rican system and what lessons it could hold for other countries.

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Making Sense of New Approaches to Primary Care Delivery: A Typology of Innovations in Primary Care

Dr. Asaf Bitton co-authors a commentary in NEJM Catalyst on a new typology of primary care delivery innovations in the U.S. to spark meaningful discussion among stakeholders and policy makers on their impact, ramifications, and value

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Estimated cost for cardiovascular disease risk-based management at a primary healthcare center in Nepal
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An integrated intervention for chronic care management in rural Nepal: protocol of a type 2 hybrid effectiveness-implementation study
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Advancing Primary Health Care in Uganda through Innovative Measurement and Effective Partnership

By June-Ho Kim, Jessica Wiken, and Joey Ross Countries around the world are driving towards universal health coverage by 2030. There is growing consensus that high-quality health coverage must be supported by strong primary health care (PHC) systems. However, many PHC systems are not capacitated with the governance, policy, and finance levers needed to be… Continue reading Advancing Primary Health Care in Uganda through Innovative Measurement and Effective Partnership

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Building a Thriving Primary Health Care System: The Story of Costa Rica
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The status of Ghanaian community health workers’ supervision and service delivery: descriptive analyses from the 2017 Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 survey
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Primary healthcare system performance in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review of the evidence from 2010 to 2017
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What kind of evidence do we need to strengthen primary healthcare in the 21st century?
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It takes a community: a landscape analysis of global health research consortia
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Facility management associated with improved primary health care outcomes in Ghana
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Commentary: Focus on continuity of primary care to achieve universal health coverage

Emphasizing continuity of primary health care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) can help achieve equitable, high-quality care for all, states a recent commentary by Ariadne Labs staff published in BMJ Global Health.     “Continuity” as a key tenet of effective primary health care and is defined as coherent, linked care between patients, families, communities,… Continue reading Commentary: Focus on continuity of primary care to achieve universal health coverage