INTRODUCTION While there has been impressive progress in creating and improving community healthcare delivery systems that support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), there is much more that can and should be done. METHODS This paper offers a review of healthcare delivery concepts on which new models are being developed, while also establishing an historical context...

Wealth-related inequity in the use of maternal healthcare services continues to be a substantial problem in most low- and middle-income countries. One strategic approach to increase the use of appropriate maternal healthcare services is to encourage the expansion of the role of the private sector. However, critics of such an approach argue that increasing the role of the private sector will lea...

BACKGROUND Mobile phone-based technology has been used in improving the delivery of healthcare services in many countries. However, data on the effects of this technology on improving primary healthcare services in resource-poor settings are limited. The aim of this study is to develop and test a mobile phone-based system to improve health, population and nutrition services in rural Bangladesh ...

In developing countries, Health Information Systems (HISs) are increasingly used to enable and support both clinical and administrative processes for healthcare services. The use of the HISs in developing countries’ healthcare centres is influenced and impacted by humans’ interactions which manifests from culture and traditions. Due to the diverse nature of culture and traditions, it is near im...

Currently, there is an effort for empowering patient self-care and improving the traditional healthcare delivery models by expanding the concept of healthcare though the provision of advanced online healthcare services. Those services require increased level of information flow and collaboration among patients and healthcare professionals. This collaboration and patient information sharing can ...

mHealth is an emerging field that comprises the delivery of health through mobile technologies, being part of a broader concept: eHealth. With the rapid advances and adoption of mobile technologies and applications, mHealth opens new opportunities to deliver healthcare and wellness promotion through personal mobiles. This will transform the current delivery of services linked to particular plac...

BACKGROUND Health care access is complex and multi-faceted and, as a basic right, equitable access and services should be available to all user groups. OBJECTIVES The aim of this article is to explore how service delivery impacts on access to healthcare for vulnerable groups in an urban primary health care setting in South Africa. METHODS A descriptive qualitative study design was used. Dat...

As Africa attempts to achieve ambitious millennium development goals, many critical challenges confront healthcare systems. In advancing towards these goals, African countries need to review and reform their healthcare delivery systems, and they need to devise innovative approaches to deal with daunting problems. 2 Development of healthcare systems and improvement in health outcomes, based on i...

The passing and implementation of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) ushered in a new era for the delivery of health services in the United States. The broad goals of expanding insurance coverage, controlling health care costs, and improving health care delivery system are ambitious and have implications for providers and the population. Observers have suggested that expanding insurance and dec...