Table 1 Models of care and their definitions
From: Primary healthcare delivery models in African conflict-affected settings: a systematic review
Model of care | Definition |
|---|---|
Health facility-based | A modality of delivering services offered by health personnel in fixed infrastructures like clinics, health centres and hospitals |
Community-based | An approach that uses community health workers to deliver health services. Community health workers is an umbrella term used to refer to community members who are selected by their communities, receive low levels of formal education to provide healthcare in the communities where they live |
Outreach | This a modality of service delivery referring to services delivered as an advance strategy of health service from an existing fixed health facility or away from the location where they usually work. This could either be provided by health facilities, mobile clinics, community health workers, private companies, non-governmental organisations, and Ministry of Health |
Mobile clinics | Ambulatory approaches of providing preventive and curative health services on an intermittent base, operated by health personnel |
Home visit | This is a modality of healthcare delivery in which the services are provided in the homes of the patients. Although home visits are carried out in community settings, it is a distinct modality of its own as it can be provided by both skilled and non-skilled health workers |