Reports Summarize Managed Care Findings from Partners In Health (Early Lessons From Launching an Innovative Community Health Household Model Across 3 Country Contexts): Managed Care

2022 APR 26 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on Managed Care. According to news reporting originating from Boston, Massachusetts, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Community health workers (CHWs) are integrated into health systems through a variety of designs. Partners In Health (PIH), a nongovernmental organization with more than 30 years of experience in over 10 countries, initially followed a vertical approach by assigning CHWs to individual patients with specific conditions, such as HIV, multidrug resistant-TB, diabetes, and other noncommunicable diseases, to provide one-on-one psychosocial and treatment support.”

Financial supporters for this research include Samuel Family Foundation, AbbVie, European Commission.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Partners In Health, “Starting in 2015, PIH-Malawi redesigned their CHW assignments to focus on entire households, thereby offering the opportunity to address a wider variety of conditions in any age group, all with a focus on working toward effective universal health coverage. Inspired by this example, PIH-Liberia and then PIH-Mexico engaged in a robust cross-site dialogue on how to adapt these plans for their unique nongovernmental organization-led CHW programs. We describe the structure of this ‘household model,’ how these structures were changed to adapt to different country contexts, and early impressions on the effects of these adaptations. Overall, the household model is proving to be a feasible and functional method for organizing CHW programs so that they can contribute toward achieving universal health coverage, but there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Other countries planning on adopting this model should plan to analyze and adapt as needed.”

For more information on this research see: Early Lessons From Launching an Innovative Community Health Household Model Across 3 Country Contexts. Global Health Science and Practice, 2021;9. Global Health Science and Practice can be contacted at: Johns Hopkins Center Communication Programs-ccp, Knowledge Success Project, 111 Market Place, Ste 310, Baltimore, Md, United States.

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Daniel Palazuelos, Partners In Health, Boston, MA 02199, United States. Additional authors for this research include Matthew Hing, Emily Wroe, Lassana M. Jabateh, Miry Choi, Ariwame Jimenez, Mariano Matias Iberico and Basimenye Nhlema.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00405. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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