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Table 2 Models of care and definitions

From: Primary healthcare delivery models in African conflict-affected settings: a systematic review

Model of care (publications)

Alternative names

Personnel used

Health facility based (N = 38)

[36,37,38,39,40,41,42, 44,45,46,47,48, 50, 52, 57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64, 66, 67, 75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88]

Health centres, Clinics

Healthcare workers, Community health works (CHWs)

Community-based (N = 21)

[37, 40, 41, 43,44,45,46, 49, 53,54,55, 58, 64, 66, 67, 69, 78, 81, 82, 85, 89]

Community health workers, village health teams, community health volunteers, lady health workers and community based distributors, Traditional birth attendants,

CHWs

Outreach (N = 9)

[41, 45, 46, 51, 59, 63, 66, 83, 85]

Community outreach, fixed outreach site, aid post

Healthcare Workers, CHWs

Mobile clinic(N = 9)

[36, 46, 51, 54, 63, 65, 78, 85, 90]

Mobile teams, mobile health centre, mobile health clinic, health camps,

Healthcare workers

Home-visit (N = 3)

[58, 62, 88]

Household visits, house-to-house visits, tent-to-tent visits

Healthcare Workers, CHWs