People-centred health systems, a bottom-up approach: where theory meets empery

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 467-473

  Sturmberg, Joachim P ^a   Njoroge, Alice ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b Eastern Deanery AIDS Response Program   (Kenya)

Author keywords

community health workers; developing country; emergence; health policy; health vortex model; healthcare expenditure; healthcare reform; HIV; Kenya; nonlinear dynamics; people centred health care; self organization; tuberculosis complexity sciences

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; TUBERCULOSIS; ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; COPING BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HIV INFECTIONS; KENYA; MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH CARE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SOCIOECONOMICS; TERMINAL CARE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; KENYA; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TERMINAL CARE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84963725289     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jep.12540     Document Type: Article

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