Category Archive for "Primary Healthcare"
Georgia: a primary health care case study in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
Curatio International Foundation conducted a case study that examines Georgia’s primary health care (PHC) response to the COVID-19 pandemic from January 2020 to July 2021. The multisectoral actions coordinated by the Interagency Coordination Committee under the Prime Minister’s leadership, effective public health response guided by the Ministry of Health and the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health delayed the virus’s arrival and slowed its spread.
Study report: Adaptations made in TB response during Covid-19 pandemic in Georgia
The CIF research team publishes study report entitled “What adaptations were made in TB response during Covid-19 pandemic in Georgia: health systems perspective on the implications for TB case detection and treatment provision”.
PHC and COVID-19 Country Case Studies
The intention of these case studies is to identify and highlight new insights into how primary health care is not only responding to COVID-19, but also into how a more bottom-up, people-centered PHC is being delivered.
Paper: Soviet legacy is still pervasive in health policy and systems research in the post-Soviet states
Bundled Payment Methods: An Alternative Payment Method to Contain Healthcare Costs in Georgia
Since there is a considerable growth in healthcare expenditure in Georgia, driven by both supply and demand, the health system would benefit by implementing alternative payment models that will reduce costs and improve the quality of care.
Effects of Pay for Performance on utilization and quality of care among Primary Health Care providers in Middle and High-Income countries
The evidence review summarizes the existing literature on P4P effectiveness on utilization and quality of primary health care in private settings in middle-income and high- income countries. The document and its findings are especially relevant to Georgia.
Georgia Primary Health Care Profile: 6 Year after UHC program introduction
The document emphasizes the role of Universal Health Care Program in increased access to health services, although it concludes that PHC needs prioritization and improved program management to address existing challenges in the system: fragmentation in service provision and inefficiency in service delivery.
Primary Health Care Systems: Georgia case study
Curatio International Foundation publishes Georgia case study of primary health care system (PRIMASYS). The PRIMASYS case study covers key aspects of primary health care system, including policy development and implementation, financing, integration of primary health care into comprehensive health systems, scope, quality and coverage of care, governance and organization, and monitoring and evaluation of system performance.
Article: Determinants analysis of outpatient service utilization in Georgia: can the approach help inform benefit package design?
Curatio International Foundation conducted secondary data analyses of Health Service Utilization and Expenditure survey (2 waves), conducted by Ministry of Labor Health and Social Affairs of Georgia, supported by WHO and The World Bank. We studied factors that impact utilization…
The drivers of facility-based immunization performance and costs. An application to Moldova
The drivers of facility-based immunization performance and costs. An application to Moldova. This is the article an International peer reviewed Journal Vaccine published, Co-authored by experts from the Curatio International Foundation. The study was a part of a multi-country coting and…