Studies in the Area of Clinical Practice Reported from Department of Medicine (Universal health care – A matter of design and agency?)

2020 APR 17 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Current study results on Clinical Research - Clinical Practice have been published. According to news reporting from Clayton, Australia, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Universal health care (UHC) is primarily a financing concern, whereas primary health care (PHC) is primarily concerned with providing the right care at the right time to achieve the best possible health outcomes for individuals and communities. A recent call for contributions by the WHO emphasized that UHC can only be achieved through PHC, and that to achieve this goal will require the strengthening of the three pillars of PHC -(a) enabling primary care and public health to integrate health services, (b) empowering people and communities to create healthy living conditions, and © integrating multisectoral policy decisions to ensure UHC that achieves the goal of ‘health for all.’ ‘Pillars’ -as a static metaphor -sends the wrong signal to the research and policy-making community.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the Department of Medicine, “It, in fact, contradicts the WHO’s own view, namely that there is ‘the need to strengthen comprehensive primary health care systems based on local priorities, needs and contexts ? [that are] co-developed by people who are engaged in their own health.’ What we really need to develop PHC as the basis to achieve the goal of UHC is a dynamic agency to drive a ‘system-as-a-whole framework’ that simultaneously takes into account finance, individual, and local needs. Health systems are socially constructed organizational systems that are ‘functionally layered’ in a hierarchical fashion -governments and/or funders at the top-level not only promote the goals of the system (policies) but also constrain the system (rules, regulations, resources) in its ability to deliver.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Hence, there is a need to focus on two key system features -political leadership and dynamic bottom-up agency that maintains everyone’s focus on the goal to be achieved, and a limitation of system constraints so that communities can shape best adapted primary care services that truly meet the needs of their individuals, families, and community.”

For more information on this research see: Universal health care - A matter of design and agency? Journal of Evaluation In Clinical Practice, 2020;():. Journal of Evaluation In Clinical Practice can be contacted at: Blackwell Publishing Inc, 350 Main St, Malden, MA 02148, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Journal of Evaluation In Clinical Practice - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2753)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting C.M. Martin, Dept. of Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health Monash Health Clayton, Clayton, Australia.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.13395. 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.

Publisher contact information for the Journal of Evaluation In Clinical Practice is: Blackwell Publishing Inc, 350 Main St, Malden, MA 02148, USA.

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