Full Description
The concept of Comprehensive Primary Health Care focuses on health system efforts to improve equity in health care access, community empowerment, participation of marginalized groups, and actions on the social determinants of health. Despite its existence since the late 1970s very few studies have been able to highlight the outcomes of this concept, until now.
Revitalizing Health for All examines thirteen cases of efforts to implement CPHC reforms from around the globe including Australia, Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, South Africa, and more. The findings presented in this volume originate from an international action-research set of studies that utilized triads of senior and junior researchers and knowledge users from each country's public health system. Primary health care reform is an important policy discourse both at the national level in these countries and in the global conversations, and this volume reveals the similarities among CPHC projects in diverse national contexts. These similarities provide a rich evidence base from which future CPHC reform initiatives can draw, regardless of their country.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Special Thanks
Foreword
Chapter 1
Introduction and Background
Ronald Labonté, David Sanders, Corinne Packer and Nikki Schaay
Chapter 2
Summary of CPHC Findings from the Structured Literature Review
Ronald Labonté and Corinne Packer
SECTION 1: INCREASING EQUITABLE ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE
Chapter 3
Ingkintja: The Congress Male Health Program, Alice Springs, Australia
Clive Rosewarne, Gai Wilson and John Liddle
Chapter 4
Exploring the Complex Contributions of the Community-based Safe Motherhood Program to CPHC in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Richard Bitwe Mihanda, Jean Robert Likofata and Gwendolyn J. Lusi
Chapter 5
Experience Implementing a Primary Health Care Program in Bogotá, Colombia
Román Rafael Vega Romero, Paola Andrea Mosquera Méndez, Jinneth Hernández Torres and Jorge Martínez Collantes
SECTION 2: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Chapter 6
The Role of South Africa's Government in Strengthening Community Participation
Nonhlanhla Nxumalo, Jane Goudge and Liz Thomas
Chapter 7
An Assessment of the Contribution of the Community Strategy Approach to CPHC in Kenya
Jack Buong, Clementine Gwoswar and Dan Kaseje
Chapter 8
Developing a CPHC Model for Bangladesh
Taufique Joarder, Anwar Islam and Aftab Uddin
SECTION 3: COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS
Chapter 9
The Contribution of Community Health Workers to the Implementation of Comprehensive Primary Health Care in Rural Settings, Iran
Sara Javanparast, Fran Baum and Gholamreza Heidari
Chapter 10
The Contribution of Accredited Social Health Activists in the Implementation of CPHC in East Champaran District, India
Anil Cherian, Vandana Kanth and Jameela George
Chapter 11
The Contribution of the Health Services Extension Program to Improve Coverage and Comprehensiveness of PHC Services in Southwest Ethiopia
Sudhakar Narayan Morankar, Mirkuzie Woldie Kerie and Abera Assefa Deressa
Chapter 12
The Contribution of Health Extension Workers in Improving the Utilization of Maternal Health Services in Rural Areas of Tigray, Ethiopia
Araya Abrha Medhanyie, Mark Spigt, Yohannes Kifle, Nikki Schaay, David Sanders, Roman Blanco, Geert-Jan Dinant and Yemane Berhane
SECTION 4: GOVERNANCE AND INTERSECTORAL ACTION
Chapter 13
Health Care Coordination: Building CPHC in Brazil
Patty Fidelis de Almeida, Lígia Giovanella and Berardo Augusto Nunan
Chapter 14
CPHC Models and Strategies in Argentina
Mario Rovere, Ana Fuks, Analía Bertolotto, Eugenia Bagnasco and Andrea Jait
Chapter 15
Constructing a CPHC System in Guarjila, El Salvador: 1987-2007
M. Argelia Dubón Abrego, Dagoberto Menjívar López, Eduardo Espinoza Fiallos and Christa Baatz
Chapter 16
Conclusion: Is there a Future for CPHC
Ronald Labonté, David Sanders, Corinne Packer and Nikki Schaa
Biographies of authors
