Empanelment: A foundational component of primary health care

Gates Open Research

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Trudy Bearden¹  Hannah L. Ratcliffe²  Jonathan R. Sugarman¹  Asaf Bitton²  Leonard Abbam Anaman³  Gilbert Buckle⁴  Momodou Cham⁵  Diane Chong Woei Quan⁶  Fatanah Ismail⁶  Badarch Jargalsaikhan⁷  Wujung Lim⁸  Nik Mazlina Mohammad⁶  Isaac C.N. Morrison⁹  Bolormaa Norov⁶  Juhwan Oh^1,10  Gandiimaa Riimaadai^1,11  Sondi Sararaks⁶  Lisa R. Hirschhorn^1,12 

[1] Comagine Health;Ariadne Labs, Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health;Ghana Health Service Headquarters;Independent Consultant;Christian Health Association of Ghana;Ministry of Health;Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences;National Health Insurance Service;Society of Private Medical and Dental Practitioners;Seoul National University College of Medicine;Health Department of Arkhangai Province;Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

关键词: Empanelment;    panel maintenance;    rostering;    enrollment;    continuity;    population health management;   

DOI  :  10.12688/gatesopenres.13059.1

学科分类：电子与电气工程

来源: American Journal Of Pharmtech Research

【 摘 要 】

Empanelment is a foundational strategy for building or improving primary health care systems and a critical pathway for achieving effective universal health coverage. However, there is little international guidance for defining empanelment or understanding how to implement empanelment systems in low- and middle-income countries. To fill this gap, a multi-country collaborative within the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage developed this empanelment overview, proposing a people-centered definition of empanelment that reflects the responsibility to proactively deliver primary care services to all individuals in a target population. This document, building on existing literature on empanelment and representing input from 10 countries, establishes standard concepts of empanelment and describes why and how empanelment is used. Finally, it identifies key domains that may influence effective empanelment and that must be considered in deciding how empanelment can be implemented. This document is designed to be a useful resource for health policymakers, planners and decision-makers in ministries of health, as well as front line providers of primary care service delivery who are working to ensure quality people-centered primary care to everyone everywhere.

【 授权许可】

CC BY