Educational outreach was delivered as a clinic based, on-site adult education programme of non-didactic, case based, iterative clinical education of all staff together, including staff providing general primary care, tuberculosis care, and HIV/AIDS/ART care, led by an outreach trainer (fig 1).
The CRU is a specialized paediatric rehabilitation centre, which, for more than twenty years, has run a peri-urban, community-based outreach programme based on the WHO CBR model.
Tajikistan requested funds for community outreach strategies based on multi-stakeholder round table discussions.
This province was an early adopter of a national primary health care (PHC) strategy that included the establishment of PHC outreach teams based on generalist community health workers.
We drafted an initial toolkit that identified care gaps and outreach strategies based on existing literature and discussions among the research team and local experts in hypertension and smoking cessation management.
In line with these developments, South Africa is reorienting a loosely structured and highly diverse community care system that evolved around HIV and TB, into a formalized, comprehensive and integrated primary health care (PHC) outreach programme, based on CHWs.
Thirteen of these hospitals were utilizing patient race and ethnicity data to identify disparities in quality performance measures for a variety of clinical processes and outcomes, while 16 had developed patient services and community outreach programs based on findings from these data.
Over half of hospitals have begun to use patient race and ethnicity data to identify disparities in quality performance measures for a variety of clinical processes and outcomes and to develop patient services and community outreach programs based on findings from these data.
Similar to other countries in the region, South Africa is currently reorienting a loosely structured and highly diverse community care system that evolved around HIV and TB, into a formalized, comprehensive and integrated primary health care outreach programme, based on community health workers (CHWs).
The list of "outreach" behaviors was based on the ones used for evaluation of the MHFA program (e.g. 'spent time listening to problem', 'recommend professional help') [ 34 ], with an adaptation to include a several work-specific options (e.g., 'recommend EAP'offeredred assistance with job duties').
