Question

How primary health care services can create accountability?How to foster in the emergency department

200-250 words and no plagiarism please.

Answer 1

Ans) Accountability to the funder and patients is most common. Agreements, incentives and compensation tools have been used but may be insufficient to ensure parties are being held responsible for their activities related to stated goals.

- Clear definitions of various governance structures, a cohesive approach to monitoring critical performance indicators and associated improvement strategies are important elements in operationalizing accountability and determining whether goals are being met.

- Primary health care (PHC) policies are decisions and plans that are undertaken by governments with input from other stakeholders to achieve specific health care goals.

- PHC policies promote, support, and establish system orientation, financing, inputs, and service delivery mech.mnisms to ensure quality and improve and develop PHC functions and outcomes.

- PHC policies and leadership are intertwined; without leadership, both within and outside the government, to promote and establish the policies and goals of the health system, successful establishment or reform of PHC system policies are unlikely.

- Leadership in PHC involves inclusion of a wide array of actors including planners, providers, users, and communities, working to create a sturdy system with effective stewardship and accountability at multiple levels.