Policies for Enhancing Access to Health Services in Deprived Areas

The overall objective of the project is the designing and introducing of prevention policies at Municipality level to the remote CB areas. As such the project pursues on investigating morbidity causes, development of population morbidity maps and formulation of policies for its reduction, on investigating the access to and the degree of needs’ coverage of health services in partner areas, on locating vulnerable groups and taking measures for enhancing their prevention support (diagnostic exams, standard protocols for treatment of incidents), on developing tools (patient cards, digital alert system, additional equipment for health centers, networking local health structures), on designing local health policy plans, on organizing communication actions for applying common plan in project areas, on applying pilot applications (diagnostic and clinical exams for vulnerable groups, health prevention sessions) to support prevention policy.

The project’s objective contributes to the implementing of prevention actions addressing the local population, the introduction of prevention policies and capacity building at Municipality level in the remote areas (developing tools-pilot applications to support their prevention policy), by setting up a CB lab on Municipal health prevention. The project concentrates on actions that promote primary care services and actions of CB added value such as digital data base in each area with patient cards, digital alert system, digital Municipal health platform in each area, digital networking local health structures, all designed under a common methodology. The PBs of the project, the population of the area, the public health sector, the local communities, as well as other local Municipalities, from the whole Program area will benefit from the project implementation.

D.4.1.3_Digital municipal health platform in each area: LINK
Aim: interconnect the individual PHC providers of the area of each Municipality and not only, digitally, to access the data of the Database and view and update the health card of a patient. This platform is also a health management tool for the Municipalities, informing them through an automatic notification system about the scheduled medical examinations to which the residents registered in the system must undergo, while there is direct communication and data exchange between the Municipality and the local health care providers. Summary (EN/GR):

 

D.5.2.1_Methodology_Designing local health policy plans_EN
D.5.5.1_Designing local health policy plans– Municipalities of Arriana & Iasmos_GR (EN abstr)
D.5.7.1_Designing local health policy plans_Municipalities of Krumovgrad & Momchilgrad_BG (EN abstr)