ReviewThe Lancet regional health. Western Pacific2023
The role of hospitals in strengthening primary health care in the Western Pacific.
Review in The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- An unfinished agenda: insights from seven country case studies on strengthening primary health care in the Western Pacific Region.BMJ global health · 2025Review
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Abstract
Despite the imperative to strengthen primary health care (PHC) to respond to demographic and epistemological transitions, and meet commitments to achieve universal health coverage, health systems remain hospital-centric with health resources largely concentrated in urban centres. This paper examines islands of innovation that demonstrate the role hospitals can play in influencing the provision of PHC. Drawing on the literature and country case studies from the Western Pacific region, we illustrate mechanisms used to unlock hospital resources to improve PHC, with the transition towards "systems-focused hospitals". This paper identifies four "ideal types" of roles hospitals perform to strengthen PHC in different contexts. This provides a framework to inform health systems policy by examining existing and potential roles of hospitals to support the provision of frontline services and reorient health systems towards PHC.
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