Country | Research question | Aims | Methods | Team |
Brazil | What are the factors to be considered and negotiated for successful referral from primary to secondary care and back in Brazil? |
| Involve all five national health regions, target populations, family physicians and nurse practitioners; PHC and hospital workers; municipal health managers Phase 1 Online national questionnaire and semistructured interviews Phase 2 Regional case studies in eight cities (in four regions) of successful referral to identify barriers and best practice. Methods include therapeutic inventory, focus groups Phase 3 Using participatory methodology, develop intervention plans in each region |
Assist Prof Sandro Rodrigues Batista (lead) Assoc Prof Sandra Fortes Adjunct Prof Clara Aleida Prada Sanabria Assist Prof Rita De Cassia Nascimento Prof Fernanda K Melchior Silva Pinto Prof João Mazzoncini De Azevedo Marques Prof Tiago Sarti Prof Leonardo Moscovici |
Malaysia | How can the public and private sectors work more collaboratively to improve and integrate PHC coverage and prevent segmentation of services in Malaysia? |
| Phase 1 Explore perception and experience of public and private primary care practitioners on constraints and access to services that they wish they could have to the other sector using mixed qualitative and quantitative method approach Phase 2 Nationwide survey of public physicians, pharmacists, public health physicians and health directors, and private family physicians to identify, confirm and estimate degree of healthcare services segmentation |
Prof Dr Sherina Mohd Sidik (lead) Assoc Prof Dr Chew Boon How Assoc Prof Dr Ambigga Devi Krishnapillai Dr Aida Jaafar Dr Maizatullifah Miskan Dr Hasliza Abu Hassan Dr Ng Kien Keat Assoc Prof Dr Aznida Firzah Abdul Aziz Assoc Prof Dr Noor Azimah Muhammad Dr Ummavathy Periasamy Dr Muhambigai Perumal Samy Vigneswary Perumal Samy |
Nigeria | How can different stakeholders support and assist the primary healthcare workforce and successful team functioning in Nigeria? |
| Qualitative methods to explore and examine experiences and interpret perceptions of PHC stakeholders with the use of proven approaches for support and assistance of PHC workforce and PHC team functioning Quasi-experimental design to test use of a family physician-led supportive supervision module and patient care support to improve PHC team functioning and provider competency in clinical case management in 4 PHC centres in four States in Nigeria |
Dr Aboi JK Madaki (lead) Prof Udonwa Ndifreke Dr Akin Moses Dr Irabor Achiaka |
South Africa | How should care be horizontally integrated and coordinated among the multidisciplinary primary healthcare team in South Africa? |
| Describe the multidisciplinary team composition for community practice Develop 4–6 new community practices within existing community health centres using community oriented primary care principles: key stakeholders engaged, CHWs deployed into defined population served, practice orientation to community, and targeted health promotion in 4–6 urban–rural sites identified by each Department of Family Medicine Use existing, validated practice evaluation tools (mixed method) to assess differences in outcomes relative matched practices in the same communities to discern important differences in team composition |
Prof Shabir Moosa (lead) The 8 Departments of Family Medicine in South Africa will be approached to join this project as partners |
CHW, community health worker; PHC, primary healthcare.