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Carroll B, Walsh K. Interrogating the effectiveness of service engagement for underserved populations in complex health and social care systems: towards an equitable engagement strategy. Int J Equity Health 2024; 23:197. [PMID: 39363179 PMCID: PMC11451094 DOI: 10.1186/s12939-024-02272-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2024] [Accepted: 09/10/2024] [Indexed: 10/05/2024] Open
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There are increased sector-wide efforts within health and social care systems to engage those with lived experience in service design, delivery, and monitoring - aiming to secure more equitable health outcomes. However, critical knowledge gaps persist around how national whole-system engagement strategies can account for the challenges experienced by populations that encounter exclusion within complex multi-layered systems. This includes a failure to delineate shared challenges across groups, and to develop transferable cross-group frameworks to assist sector-wide change. There is, therefore, a danger that those groups already least heard will be collectively left behind. With a view to informing a more inclusive engagement strategy in Ireland, this national study aims to investigate multi-level (policy and strategic, operational, on-the-ground services, individual) shared challenges impacting engagement for five populations who have been identified as underserved groups in a complex health and social care system, including: (1) those who misuse drugs and alcohol, (2) those who are experiencing homelessness, (3) those experiencing mental health, (4) migrants and those of minority ethnicies, and (5) Irish Travellers. Adopting a mixed-methods approach which draws on an evidence-informed multistakeholder perspective, this study employs data from: focus groups and life-course interviews with lived-experience populations (n=136), five focus groups (n=39) and a national on-line survey (n=320) with population-specific services providers; and national-level stakeholder interviews (n=9). Two cross-group participatory consultative forums with lived-experience and provider participants (n=28) were used to co-produce priority action areas based on study findings. This article presents findings on shared challenges in engaging these groups around leadership and commitment, implementation and action, population capacities, trust, and representation, stigma, and discrimination. Derived from these challenges, six development areas are presented to advance an inclusive equitable engagement approach in Ireland. These comprise: 1) balancing top-down prioritisation, and bottom-up direction; 2) sustaining multi-level, multi-form implementation; 3) measuring effectiveness and action; 4) embedding inclusive equitable engagement; 5) trust as a prerequisite, and outcome; and 6) an equalising, agency empowering agenda.
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- Brídín Carroll
- Irish Centre of Social Gerontology, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.
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- Irish Centre of Social Gerontology, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
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Cole C, Mummery J, Peck B. Professionalising care into compliance: The challenge for personalised care models. Nurs Inq 2022:e12541. [DOI: 10.1111/nin.12541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2022] [Revised: 11/08/2022] [Accepted: 11/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Clare Cole
- School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine Australian Catholic University Fitzroy Victoria Australia
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- School of Arts and Education Federation University of Australia Ballarat Victoria Australia
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- School of Health Sciences Federation University of Australia Ballarat Victoria Australia
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Schuele E, MacDougall C. The missing bit in the middle: Implementation of the Nationals Health Services Standards for Papua New Guinea. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0266931. [PMID: 35749442 PMCID: PMC9231790 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2020] [Accepted: 03/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE This case study examined implementation of the National Health Services Standards (NHSSs) as a continuous quality improvement (CQI) process at three church-based health facilities in Papua New Guinea. This process was designed to improve quality of care and accredit the level three health centers to level four as district hospitals to provide a higher level of care. The aims of the paper are to critically examine driving and restraining forces in CQI implementation and analyses how power influences agenda setting for change. METHODS Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine managers and eight health workers as well as three focus group discussions with health workers from three rural church-based health facilities in Morobe and Madang provinces. They included senior, mid-level and frontline managers and medical doctors, health extension officers, nursing officers and community health workers. Thematic analysis was used as an inductive and deductive process in which applied force field analysis, leadership-member exchange (LMX) theory and agenda setting was applied. RESULTS Qualitative analysis showed how internal and external factors created urgency for change. The CQI process was designed as a collective process. Power relations operated at and between various levels: the facilities, which supported or undermined the change process; between management whereby the national management supported the quality improvement agenda, but the regional management exercised positional power in form of inaction. Theoretical analysis identified the 'missing bit in the middle' shaped by policy actors who exercise power over policy formulation and constrained financial and technical resources. Analysis revealed how to reduce restraining forces and build on driving forces to establish a new equilibrium. CONCLUSION Multiple theories contributed to the analysis showing how to resolve problematic power relations by building high-quality, effective communication of senior leadership with mid-level management and reactivated broad collaborative processes at the health facilities. Addressing the 'missing bit in the middle' by agenda setting can improve implementation of the NHSSs as a quality improvement process. The paper concludes with learning for policy makers, managers and health workers by highlighting to pay close attention to institutional power dynamics and practices.
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- Elisabeth Schuele
- Department of Public Health Leadership and Training, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Divine Word University, Madang, Papua New Guinea
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- College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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Lyhne CN, Bjerrum M, Jørgensen MJ. Person-centred care to prevent hospitalisations - a focus group study addressing the views of healthcare providers. BMC Health Serv Res 2022; 22:801. [PMID: 35725608 PMCID: PMC9210672 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-022-08198-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2022] [Accepted: 06/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background The primary healthcare sector comprises various health services, including disease prevention at local level. Research shows that targeted primary healthcare services can prevent the development of acute complications and ultimately reduce the risk of hospitalisations. While interdisciplinary collaboration has been suggested as a means to improve the quality and responsiveness of personal care needs in preventive services, effective implementation remains a challenge. To improve the quality and responsiveness of primary healthcare and to develop initiatives to support the interdisciplinary collaboration in preventive services, there is a need to investigate the views of primary healthcare providers. The aim of this study was to investigate perceptions of preventive care among primary healthcare providers by examining their views on what constitutes a need for hospitalisation, and which strategies are found useful to prevent hospitalisation. Further, to explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be supported with a view to providing person-centred care. Methods Five focus group interviews were conducted with 27 healthcare providers, including general practitioners, social and healthcare assistants, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, home care nurses, specialist nurses and acute care nurses. Interviews were transcribed, and analysed with qualitative content analysis. Results Three categories emerged from the analysis: 1) Mental and social conditions influence physical functioning and hospitalisation need, 2) Well-established primary healthcare services are important to provide person-centred care through interdisciplinary collaboration and 3) Interdisciplinary collaboration in primary healthcare services is predominantly focussed on handling acute physical conditions. These describe that the healthcare providers are attentive towards the influence of mental, social and physical conditions on the risk of hospitalisation, entailing a focus on person-centred care. Nevertheless, in the preventive services, interdisciplinary collaboration focusses primarily on handling acute physical conditions, which constitutes a barrier for interdisciplinary collaboration. Conclusions By focusing on the whole person, it could be possible to provide more person-centred care through interdisciplinary collaboration and ultimately to prevent some hospitalisations. Stakeholders at all levels should be informed about the relevance of considering mental, social and physical conditions to improve the quality and responsiveness of primary healthcare services and to develop initiatives to support interdisciplinary collaboration. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12913-022-08198-6.
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- Cecilie Nørby Lyhne
- Research Unit for Nursing and Healthcare, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Bartholins Allé 2, 3, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark. .,Research Unit, Horsens Regional Hospital, Central Denmark Region, Sundvej 30X, 8700, Horsens, Denmark.
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- Research Unit for Nursing and Healthcare, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Bartholins Allé 2, 3, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark.,Center for Clinical Guidelines, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Soendre Skovvej 15, 9000, Aalborg, Denmark
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Putturaj M, Krumeich A, Nuggehalli Srinivas P, Engel N, Criel B, Van Belle S. Crying baby gets the milk? The governmentality of grievance redressal for patient rights violations in Karnataka, India. BMJ Glob Health 2022; 7:bmjgh-2022-008626. [PMID: 35623644 PMCID: PMC9150157 DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2022] [Accepted: 05/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background Patient rights aim to protect the dignity of healthcare-seeking individuals. Realisation of these rights is predicated on effective grievance redressal for the victims of patient rights violations. Methods We used a critical case (that yields the most information) of patient rights violations reported in Karnataka state (South India) to explore the power dynamics involved in resolving grievances raised by healthcare-seeking individuals. Using interviews, media reports and other documents pertaining to the case, we explored the ‘governmentality’ of grievance redressal for patient rights violations, that is, the interaction of micropractices and techniques of power employed by actors to govern the processes and outcomes. We also examined whether existing governmentality ensured procedural and substantive justice to care-seeking individuals. Results Collective action was necessary by the aggrieved women in terms of protests, media engagement, petitions and follow-up to ensure that the State accepted a complaint against a medical professional. Each institution, and especially the medical professional council, exercised its power by problematising the grievance in its own way which was distinct from the problematisation of the grievance by the collective. The State bureaucracy enacted its power by creating a maze of organisational units and by fragmenting the grievance redressal across various bureaucratic units. Conclusion There is a need for measures guaranteeing accountability, transparency, promptness, fairness, credibility and trustworthiness in the patient grievance redressal system. Governmentality as a framework enabled to study how subjects (care-seeking individuals) are rendered governable and resist dominant forces in the grievance redressal system for patient rights violations.
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- Meena Putturaj
- Department of Health Ethics and Society, Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands .,Health Equity Cluster, Institute of Public Health Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.,Centre for Local Health Traditions and Policy, The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.,Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Department of Health Ethics and Society, Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Health Ethics and Society, Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen, Belgium
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Badejo O, Sagay H, Abimbola S, Van Belle S. Confronting power in low places: historical analysis of medical dominance and role-boundary negotiation between health professions in Nigeria. BMJ Glob Health 2021; 5:bmjgh-2020-003349. [PMID: 32994230 PMCID: PMC7526320 DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2020] [Revised: 08/13/2020] [Accepted: 08/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Introduction Interprofessional interaction is intrinsic to health service delivery and forms the basis of task-shifting and task-sharing policies to address human resources for health challenges. But while interprofessional interaction can be collaborative, professional hierarchies and discipline-specific patterns of socialisation can result in unhealthy rivalry and conflicts which disrupt health system functioning. A better understanding of interprofessional dynamics is necessary to avoid such negative consequences. We, therefore, conducted a historical analysis of interprofessional interactions and role-boundary negotiations between health professions in Nigeria. Methods We conducted a review of both published and grey literature to provide historical accounts and enable policy tracing of reforms related to interprofessional interactions. We used Nancarrow and Borthwick’s typology for thematic analysis and used medical dominance and negotiated order theories to offer explanations of the conditions that facilitated or constrained interprofessional collaboration. Results Despite an overall context of medical dominance, we found evidence of professional power changes (dynamics) and role-boundary shifts between health professions. These shifts occurred in different directions, but shifts between professions that are at different power gradients were more likely to be non-negotiable or conflictual. Conditions that facilitated consensual role-boundary shifts included the feasibility of simultaneous upward expansion of roles for all professions and the extent to which the delegating profession was in charge of role delegation. While the introduction of new medical diagnostic technology opened up occupational vacancies which facilitated consensual role-boundary change in some cases, it constrained professional collaboration in others. Conclusions Health workforce governance can contribute to better functioning of health systems and voiding dysfunctional interprofessional relations if the human resource for health interventions are informed by contextual understanding (informed by comparative institutional and health systems research) of conditions that facilitate or constrain effective interprofessional collaboration.
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- Okikiolu Badejo
- Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
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- HIV and Viral Hepatitis, World Health Organization Country Office for Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria
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- School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
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Sharafi S, Cheraghi MA, Nasiri A, Mahmoudirad G. Diplomatic activities of Iranian Nursing Organization: A qualitative study. Nurs Forum 2021; 56:604-611. [PMID: 33949691 DOI: 10.1111/nuf.12593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2020] [Revised: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 04/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Nursing organizations play an important role in fulfilling the professional demands of nurses. The Iranian Nursing Organization (INO) is also using diplomatic activities in this direction. AIM This study was conducted to explain the diplomatic activities of INO. METHODS A descriptive qualitative study was conducted using conventional content analysis. A purposive sampling approach was used. Data were collected via in-depth, unstructured, face-to-face interviews with 21 nurses at various INOs in different cities from March to July 2020. The data collection process continued until data saturation. Interviews were analyzed using Graneheim and Lundman's (2004) guidelines. The MAXQDA software (v. 10) was used. FINDING The results showed that the diplomatic activities of INO comprise professional (three categories), social (two categories), and diplomacy in power network (two categories). CONCLUSION INO carries out diplomatic activities at organizational, national and international levels and pursues its professional nursing goals through diplomacy. INO also uses social diplomacy and political diplomacy to influence decision-makers in the community and network of power.
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- Simin Sharafi
- Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Nursing and Midwifery School, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran
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- Department of Critical Care and Nursing Management, Nursing and Midwifery School, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Nursing and Midwifery School, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran
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- Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Nursing and Midwifery School, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran
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Byrne AL, Harvey C, Baldwin A. Nurse navigators and person-centred care; delivered but not valued? Nurs Inq 2021; 28:e12402. [PMID: 33645885 DOI: 10.1111/nin.12402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2020] [Revised: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 12/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Positioning the individual at the centre of care (person-centred care [PCC]) is essential to improving outcomes for people living with multiple chronic conditions. However, research also suggests that this is structurally challenging because health systems continue to adopt long-standing, episodic care encounters. One strategy to provide a more cohesive, individualised approach to care is the implementation of the nurse navigator role. Current research shows that although PCC is a focus of navigation, such care may be hindered by the rigid, systematised health services providing siloed specialist care. In this paper, we utilised a case study method to investigate the experiences of a nurse navigator and patient. The nurse navigator and the patient participated in individual interviews, the transcripts of which were analysed using critical discourse analysis. Findings from a larger research project suggest that traditional measures (hospital avoidance, emergency department usage) which work as the service objectives of the nurse navigator service have the potential to stifle the delivery of PCC. The analysis from this case study supports the broader findings and further highlights the need for improved alignment between service objectives and the health and well-being of the individuals utilising the services.
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- Amy-Louise Byrne
- School of Nursing and Midwifery and Social Science, Central Queensland University, Townsville, QLD, Australia
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- School of Nursing and Midwifery and Social Science, Central Queensland University, Townsville, QLD, Australia
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- School of Nursing and Midwifery and Social Science, Central Queensland University, Townsville, QLD, Australia
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Siouta E, Olsson U. Patient Centeredness from a Perspective of History of the Present: A Genealogical Analysis. Glob Qual Nurs Res 2020; 7:2333393620950241. [PMID: 32944591 PMCID: PMC7466880 DOI: 10.1177/2333393620950241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2020] [Revised: 07/22/2020] [Accepted: 07/23/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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The overall aim of this study, performed in Sweden, was to problematize the contemporary national and transnational discourse on patient centeredness, which during recent decades has become a given, having become established as a dogma in conversations, writing, and thinking about patients and health care. We did that by showing that ideas such as patient centeredness can be seen differently from the way they are depicted in contemporary discourses about health care. In the presented analysis, we drew on Foucault’s concepts of governmentality, ‘history of the present’ and genealogy. This means that we reflected on contemporary conceptions of how phenomena, such as the care seeker, have been constructed within other discourses about health care. Empirically, we used different health policy documents—government reports from three different historical periods. The analysis showed that contemporary narratives about centeredness are neither more, nor less, care seeker-centered than the narratives of yesteryear. Rather, the phenomenon of the care seeker is given different frames and meanings within the framework of different economic and historical discourses about health care. Our analysis raised questions about the contemporary construction of patient centeredness. In a world with such huge economic differences between nations, as well as between citizens within most nations, the contemporary discourse may be limited as it does not problematize structural issues in the same way as previous discourses had done. Perhaps what is needed today are national and international patient-centered or person-centered discourses which also discuss policies and practices that are population- and social group-centered. In the final discussion of the analysis, we identified a new patient-centered discourse, which views the patient as a resource among other resources. The most important limitation of this type of study is that it is only about discourses and policy issues and not about daily practical activities.
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The application of psychologically informed practice: observations of experienced physiotherapists working with people with chronic pain. Physiotherapy 2020; 106:163-173. [DOI: 10.1016/j.physio.2019.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2018] [Accepted: 01/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Middleton L, Rea H, Pledger M, Cumming J. A Realist Evaluation of Local Networks Designed to Achieve More Integrated Care. Int J Integr Care 2019; 19:4. [PMID: 30971870 PMCID: PMC6450249 DOI: 10.5334/ijic.4183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2018] [Accepted: 03/12/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Not surprisingly given their multi-component nature, initiatives to improve integrated care often evolve to find the best way to bring about change. This paper provides an example of how an evaluation evolved alongside such an initiative designed to better integrate care across primary, community and hospital services in South Auckland, New Zealand. THEORY AND METHODS Using the explanatory power of a realist evaluative approach, theories of new ways of working that might be prompted by the initiative were explored in: (i) interviews with stakeholders in 2012 and 2015, (ii) online surveys of general practices and local care organisations, and (iii) a purposive sample of ten general practices. RESULTS The results highlighted the institutional contexts that led to difficulties in implementing population health initiatives. They also revealed that changes in work practices focussed mostly on activities that improved the coordination of care for individuals at risk of hospital admissions. DISCUSSION Multi-component complex interventions can vary in their delivery and be vulnerable to one or more components not being implemented as originally intended. In the case of this intervention, the move towards strengthening local relationships arose when contractual arrangements stalled. Realist evaluative approaches offer a logic that helps unpick the complexity of the relationships and politics in play, and uncover the assumptions made by those developing, implementing and assessing health service changes. CONCLUSION Given the multi-component and evolving nature of initiatives seeking to better integrate care, the realist evaluative emphasis on surfacing early the theories to explain how change is expected to occur helps overcome the challenge of evaluating "a moving target".
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- Lesley Middleton
- Health Services Research Centre, Faculty of Health, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
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- Medicine and Integrated Care, South Auckland Clinical Campus, University of Auckland, Otahuhu, Auckland, NZ
- Counties Manukau Health, Middlemore Hospital, Otahuhu, Auckland, NZ
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- Health Services Research Centre, Faculty of Health, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
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- Health Services Research Centre, Faculty of Health, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
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Schröder-Bäck P, Schloemer T, Clemens T, Alexander D, Brand H, Martakis K, Rigby M, Wolfe I, Zdunek K, Blair M. A Heuristic Governance Framework for the Implementation of Child Primary Health Care Interventions in Different Contexts in the European Union. INQUIRY : A JOURNAL OF MEDICAL CARE ORGANIZATION, PROVISION AND FINANCING 2019; 56:46958019833869. [PMID: 30845863 PMCID: PMC6410382 DOI: 10.1177/0046958019833869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Revised: 01/20/2019] [Accepted: 02/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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To adopt and implement innovative good practices across the European Union requires developing policies for different political and constitutional contexts. Health policies are mostly decided by national political processes at different levels. To attain effective advice for policy making and good practice exchange, one has to take different models of governance for health into account. We aimed to explore which concepts of governance research are relevant for implementing child health policies in a European Union context. We argue that taking into account the insights of good intersectoral and multilevel governance in research and practice is essential and promising for future analyses. These governance concepts help to understand what actors and institutions are potentially of relevance for developing and implementing child-centric health care approaches not only within health care but also outside health care. The framework we developed has the potential to advise on and thus support effectively the spreading and implementation of good practices of child-centric health policy approaches across the European Union. With this heuristic framework, the variety of relevant stakeholders and institutions can better be mapped and taken into account in implementation processes. Also, the normative side-particularly stressing values that make governance "good governance"-is to be taken into account.
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- Maastricht University, The Netherlands
- University of Cologne, Germany
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Nicholson C, Hepworth J, Burridge L, Marley J, Jackson C. Translating the Elements of Health Governance for Integrated Care from Theory to Practice: A Case Study Approach. Int J Integr Care 2018; 18:11. [PMID: 29588645 PMCID: PMC5854213 DOI: 10.5334/ijic.3106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Against a paucity of evidence, a model describing elements of health governance best suited to achieving integrated care internationally was developed. The aim of this study was to explore how health meso-level organisations used, or planned to use, the governance elements. METHODS A case study design was used to offer two contrasting contexts of health governance. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants who held senior governance roles. Data were thematically analysed to identify if the elements of health governance were being used, or intended to be in the future. RESULTS While all participants agreed that the ten elements were essential to developing future integrated care, most were not used. Three major themes were identified: (1) organisational versus system focus, (2) leadership and culture, and, (3) community (dis)engagement. DISCUSSION Several barriers and enablers to the use of the elements were identified and would require addressing in order to make evidence-based changes. CONCLUSION Despite a clear international policy direction in support of integrated care this study identified a number of significant barriers to its implementation. The study reconfirmed that a focus on all ten elements of health governance is essential to achieve integrated care.
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- Caroline Nicholson
- Primary Care Clinical Unit, University of Queensland, AU
- Mater Research Institute, University of Queensland, AU
- Mater Misericordiae Ltd, South Brisbane, AU
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- Mater Research Institute, University of Queensland, AU
- School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, AU
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- Primary Care Clinical Unit, University of Queensland, AU
- School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University, AU
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Queensland, AU
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- Primary Care Clinical Unit, University of Queensland, AU
- Mater Research Institute, University of Queensland, AU
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McGivern G, Nzinga J, English M. 'Pastoral practices' for quality improvement in a Kenyan clinical network. Soc Sci Med 2017; 195:115-122. [PMID: 29175225 PMCID: PMC5718766 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.11.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2017] [Revised: 11/14/2017] [Accepted: 11/16/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We explain social and organisational processes influencing health professionals in a Kenyan clinical network to implement a form of quality improvement (QI) into clinical practice, using the concept of ‘pastoral practices’. Our qualitative empirical case study, conducted in 2015–16, shows the way practices constructing and linking local evidence-based guidelines and data collection processes provided a foundation for QI. Participation in these constructive practices gave network leaders pastoral status to then inscribe use of evidence and data into routine care, through championing, demonstrating, supporting and mentoring, with the support of a constellation of local champions. By arranging network meetings, in which the professional community discussed evidence, data, QI and professionalism, network leaders also facilitated the reconstruction of network members' collective professional identity. This consequently strengthened top-down and lateral accountability and inspection practices, disciplining evidence and audit-based QI in local hospitals. By explaining pastoral practices in this way and setting, we contribute to theory about governmentality in health care and extend Foucauldian analysis of QI, clinical networks and governance into low and middle income health care contexts. Pastoral practices influence health professionals to implement quality improvement. Local evidence-based guidelines and audit processes provide a foundation for QI. A constellation of network leaders and local champions inscribed QI into practice. Discussion in network meetings facilitated reconstruction of professional identity. Professionals disciplined their own use of evidence and audit for QI purposes.
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- Gerry McGivern
- Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV47AL, UK.
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- KEMRI Wellcome Trust, Nairobi, Kenya; Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK.
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