The backend platform also automates many of the broker processes, reducing the expenses and additional costs between the insured and the capacity provider.
It can be tempting to selectively choose only the highest-capacity providers for recruitment into the network.
Further, working with lower-capacity providers to improve quality and expand their range of services is an important part of improving standards of care in the private sector, a key promise of franchising and one that selectively choosing only high-capacity providers negates.
The capacity of providers is low, services are not felt to be affordable, and patients report concerns about safety, all contributing to low utilization of community health facilities.
However, my work with WFI has exposed me to advocate for free contraception for women, build capacity of providers in hard-to-reach communities and supply delivery kits to indigent mothers.
High quality child care is a population health investment that relies on the capacity of providers.
Therefore, greater capacity of providers at all levels and broader health system strengthening will also be necessary to improve maternal and newborn health care services further [ 50].
A strategy involving simple structural improvements, in-service training opportunities, effective team-based mentoring and supervision could strengthen the capacity of providers to care for newborns.
It is critical to improve the attitudes, managerial and technical capacity of providers to ensure that RH services are delivered respectfully and efficiently.
The theme of structural barriers encompassed views on the physical and financial barriers to home haemodialysis that were believed reduce the motivation and capacity of providers to offer home haemodialysis programmes.
Moreover, a study investigating the capacity of providers to offer accessible health care for people with disabilities revealed that people with communication limitations or visual impairment were the most difficult to serve [ 58].
