- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Health Services Management and Policy
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Healthcare Quality and Management
- Global Health Care Issues
- Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Delphi Technique in Research
World Health Organization
2021-2023
World Health Organization - Pakistan
2022
World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
2013-2021
Global Health Research Center of Central Asia
2019
Primary Health Care
2018
University of Verona
2003-2005
Ferrari (Italy)
2003
Consulintel (Spain)
2003
Regione Puglia
2003
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
2003
A competent health workforce is a vital resource for services delivery, dictating the extent to which are capable of responding needs. In context changing landscape, an integrated approach service provision has taken precedence. For this, strengthening competencies imperative, and doing so in practice hinges on oversight steering function governance. To aid system stewards their governing role, this review seeks provide overview processes, tools actors competencies. It draws from purposive...
Integrated care has moved from the small niche it traditionally occupied in academia, accessible only to experts field and applied merely on a project specific or pilot effort basis, now onto radar of politicians health system planners world over.
Objective: To assess the effect of socioeconomic status (SES) on psychiatric service use in an Italian area with a well‐developed community‐based service. Method: An index SES was calculated from nine census variables and grouped into four categories, ranging SES‐I‐affluent to SES‐IV‐deprived, for each 328 blocks (CB). Fifteen indicators were collected using case register. All patients resident catchment area, who had at least one contact 1996 ( n = 989), included study. Results: Indicators...
Hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions have been extensively used in health services research to assess access, quality and performance of primary care. Inter-country comparisons can assist policy-makers pursuing better outcomes by contrasting policy design, implementation evaluation. The objective this study is identify the conceptual, methodological, contextual dimensions factors that need be accounted when comparing these types hospitalizations across countries. A...
Purpose As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to spread across countries, it is becoming increasingly clear that presence of pre-existing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) dramatically increases risk aggravation in persons who contract virus. The neglect managing NCDs during emergencies may result fatal consequences for individuals living with comorbidities. This paper aims highlight need a paradigm shift governance public health simultaneously address NCD and (CD) pandemics...
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has Impact Factor 5.120 (2020 JCR, received June 2021)
This meeting was held from the 30 October to 1 November 2018 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The brought together participants 16 countries of central Asia, Caucasus, eastern Europe and expert speakers western India. Participants discussed analysis use data on antimicrobial medicines consumption, country experiences enforcing legislation for prescription-only access antibiotics, role primary health care (PHC) tackling resistance (AMR), strategies improving competencies practitioners using...
Introduction: Measuring and evaluating the outcomes of integrated care has long been a challenge up to date, no consensus reached on what measure which indicators are more appropriate. This gap other hand often recognized as cause for unsuccessful or unsustainable implementation care. The aim this study is review used in Europe their features order define, where possible, domains attributes causal chain inputs, process, outputs outcomes.Methods: A stepwise approach was capture breadth topic,...
The differing global trends in alcohol consumption and policy measures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic warrant a closer look at actions taken by civil society organisations (CSOs) community-led efforts to describe how they may influence accelerate action for change control measures. This paper analyses undertaken CSOs national local levels safeguard communities improve policies six African countries.A cross-sectional survey was distributed via email involved prevention, outreach...
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has Impact Factor 5.120 (2020 JCR, received June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published 2021.
Abstract Introduction. Local research is critical to support the local implementation of global policies. This study explores status and trends on related alcohol consumption, its determinants, governance, harm, control policies in terms countries studied, affiliations authors, funding, themes using bibliometric analysis. Methods. Research papers published between 1 January 2010 31 December 2021 were searched Web Science PubMed a predefined search strategy keywords, regardless article type....
To describe and map scientific literature related to alcohol consumption, its determinants, governance, harm control policies by publication output, author affiliations, funding, countries of study research themes.
The World Health Organization (WHO) African Region is struggling with increasing harm associated alcohol consumption. Legislators of Sao Tome and Principe, concerned about this the high prevalence use disorders, designed a comprehensive control bill to tackle situation. Input into design was obtained through interviews involving many stakeholders. process had five phases: (i) scoping problem understand social burden caused by consumption; (ii) updating evidence on policies identifying areas...
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