ReviewThe Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia2024
Reorienting health systems towards Primary Health Care in South Asia.
Review in The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Assessing existing infection prevention and control measures used by nurses in water-scarce healthcare in a global setting: A scoping review.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2026Article
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- Role of the primary healthcare providers in sickle cell disease management: a scoping review.Journal of community genetics · 2026Review
- Progress towards universal health coverage in South Asia, 2000-2030: an examination of the twin elements of primary healthcare provision and financial protection.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- Non-communicable diseases prevention and control in Pakistan: recommendations from policy and public health experts.BMC proceedings · 2025Article
- Public-Private-Partnerships for Primary Care in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh: Lessons on Pathways and Drivers.The International journal of health planning and management · 2025Article
- Analysis and comparison of the trends in burden of low back pain in China and worldwide from 1990 to 2021.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
- Co-evolution of private and public hospitals: spatiotemporal disparities, geospatial interactions, and social determinants over 19 years in Sichuan, China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Socioeconomic inequalities in receiving vitamin A supplementation among children 6-59 months in South and Southeast Asia: a population-based study.BMJ nutrition, prevention & health · 2025Article
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Abstract
This series, "Primary health care in South Asia", is an effort to provide region-specific, evidence-based insights for reorienting health systems towards PHC. Led by regional thinkers, this series draws lessons from five countries in South Asia: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. This is the last paper in the series that outlines points for future action. We call for action in three areas. First, the changing context in the region, with respect to epidemiological shifts, urbanisation, and privatisation, presents an important opportunity to appraise existing policies on PHC and reformulate them to meet the evolving needs of communities. Second, reorienting health systems towards PHC requires concrete efforts on three pillars-integrated services, multi-sectoral collaboration, and community empowerment. This paper collates nine action points that cut across these three pillars. These action points encompass contextualising policies on PHC, scaling up innovations, allocating adequate financial resources, strengthening the governance function of health ministries, establishing meaningful public-private engagements, using digital health tools, reorganising service delivery, enabling effective change-management processes, and encouraging practice-oriented research. Finally, we call for more research-policy-practice networks on PHC in South Asia that can generate evidence, bolster advocacy, and provide spaces for cross-learning. Funding: WHO SEARO funded this paper. This source did not play any role in the design, analysis or preparation of the manuscript.
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