Improving the Accessibility of Frontline Services : For Dignified, Person-Centered Care Amidst Demographic Change

Improving the Accessibility of Frontline Services : For Dignified, Person-Centered Care Amidst Demographic Change

Even in mature health systems, universal access to frontline health services remains largely aspirational. Most countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have few general practitioners relative to specialists, a...

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Main Author: World Bank Group
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:
DEMOGRAPHICS
HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES
TELEPSYCHIATRY
IMMEDIATE CARE CENTER
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/449191560318862135/Improving-the-Accessibility-of-Frontline-Services-for-Dignified-Person-Centered-Care-Amidst-Demographic-Change
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spelling okr-10986-318502021-05-25T10:54:39Z Improving the Accessibility of Frontline Services : For Dignified, Person-Centered Care Amidst Demographic Change World Bank Group DEMOGRAPHICS HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY PRIMARY HEALTH CARE ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES TELEPSYCHIATRY IMMEDIATE CARE CENTER Even in mature health systems, universal access to frontline health services remains largely aspirational. Most countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have few general practitioners relative to specialists, and many systems suffer from long wait times for primary care or limited options outside standard office hours. Those living in disadvantaged communities or on the margins of society, including rural, poor, minority, mobility constrained, and immigrant patients, can also face entrenched physical, social, and financial barriers to accessing health services, even in countries with universal health coverage. Universal coverage of accessible frontline services will require creative solutions to encourage physician entry into primary care (see Brief 15c); task shifting to emerging cadres of workers (see Brief 7c); creating flexible, nontraditional care models that make it easier to access care; and reaching populations excluded under the status quo. 2019-06-13T15:42:48Z 2019-06-13T15:42:48Z 2018-10 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/449191560318862135/Improving-the-Accessibility-of-Frontline-Services-for-Dignified-Person-Centered-Care-Amidst-Demographic-Change http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31850 English FLF Evidence Brief Series; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief
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topic DEMOGRAPHICS
HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES
TELEPSYCHIATRY
IMMEDIATE CARE CENTER
spellingShingle DEMOGRAPHICS
HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES
TELEPSYCHIATRY
IMMEDIATE CARE CENTER
World Bank Group
Improving the Accessibility of Frontline Services : For Dignified, Person-Centered Care Amidst Demographic Change
relation FLF Evidence Brief Series;
description Even in mature health systems, universal access to frontline health services remains largely aspirational. Most countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have few general practitioners relative to specialists, and many systems suffer from long wait times for primary care or limited options outside standard office hours. Those living in disadvantaged communities or on the margins of society, including rural, poor, minority, mobility constrained, and immigrant patients, can also face entrenched physical, social, and financial barriers to accessing health services, even in countries with universal health coverage. Universal coverage of accessible frontline services will require creative solutions to encourage physician entry into primary care (see Brief 15c); task shifting to emerging cadres of workers (see Brief 7c); creating flexible, nontraditional care models that make it easier to access care; and reaching populations excluded under the status quo.
format Brief
author World Bank Group
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title Improving the Accessibility of Frontline Services : For Dignified, Person-Centered Care Amidst Demographic Change
title_short Improving the Accessibility of Frontline Services : For Dignified, Person-Centered Care Amidst Demographic Change
title_full Improving the Accessibility of Frontline Services : For Dignified, Person-Centered Care Amidst Demographic Change
title_fullStr Improving the Accessibility of Frontline Services : For Dignified, Person-Centered Care Amidst Demographic Change
title_full_unstemmed Improving the Accessibility of Frontline Services : For Dignified, Person-Centered Care Amidst Demographic Change
title_sort improving the accessibility of frontline services : for dignified, person-centered care amidst demographic change
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2019
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/449191560318862135/Improving-the-Accessibility-of-Frontline-Services-for-Dignified-Person-Centered-Care-Amidst-Demographic-Change
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