To strengthen the PHC approach based on caring for people rather than specific diseases that focuses on: meeting people's health needs throughout their lives; addressing the broader determinants of health through multisectoral policy and action; and empowering individuals, families and communities to take charge of their own health, WHO, the United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations Population Fund, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the United Nations Refugee Agency (all partners in the PHC accelerator component of the “Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All”) have prioritized implementation of PHC-oriented models of care in the 2-year workplan on PHC.
Currently, the Regional Office is working with Palestine, Pakistan and Sudan in the first phase of the regional initiative. At this stage, the countries have developed workplans to conceptualize and begin implementation of models of care. In parallel, WHO global teams are working with the same countries to develop delivery and implementation plans to support and guide country efforts, and a global scoping review of models of care (informed by regional key informants) has been initiated.
Aims, objectives and results framework
Through this initiative, WHO, in close collaboration with governments and partners, is supporting countries to develop context specific PHC-oriented models of care at subnational level to:
promote integrated health services, strategically prioritizing PHC and public health functions and ensure adequate coordination between them;
bridge the 3 components of PHC: 1) integrated health services with emphasis on PHC and essential public health functions; 2) multisectoral policy and actions; 3) empowered people and communities;
promote continuous, comprehensive, coordinated people-centred care, rather than focus on disease-centred care;
reorient health systems to facilitate access to services closer to where people live;
promote innovations in service delivery, including private sector engagement;
incorporate operational research and documentation to generate evidence for replication in other settings.
