Research Catalog

Title

The future of health care in the Kurdistan Region, Iraq : toward an effective, high-quality system with an emphasis on primary care / Melinda Moore ... [et al.].

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Kurdistān (Iraq). Ḧikûmetî Herêmî Kurdistan-ʻÊraq.
• Moore, Melinda, M.D.
• RAND Health

Description

xxxiii, 216 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps; 28 cm.

Summary

At the request of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), RAND researchers undertook a yearlong analysis of the health care system in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, with a focus on primary care. RAND staff reviewed available literature on the Kurdistan Region and information relevant to primary care; interviewed a wide range of policy leaders, health practitioners, patients, and government officials to gather information and understand their priorities; collected and studied all available data related to health resources, services, and conditions; and projected future supply and demand for health services in the Kurdistan Region; and laid out the health financing challenges and questions. In this volume, the authors describe the strengths of the health care system in the Kurdistan Region as well as the challenges it faces. The authors suggest that a primary care-oriented health care system could help the KRG address many of these challenges. The authors discuss how such a system might be implemented and financed, and they make recommendations for better utilizing resources to improve the quality, access, effectiveness, and efficiency of primary care.

Subject

• Medical care > Kurdistān
• Primary care (Medicine) > Kurdistān

Note

• "Sponsored by the Kurdistan Regional Government."
• "Rand Health."
• At head of title: Kurdistan Regional Government. Ministry of Planning. Ministry of Health.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-216).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Current Health Care System in the Kurdistan Region -- Iraq and Vision for the Future -- Projecting Future Health Care Utilization -- Health Care Financing: Overview and Lessons -- Organization and Management of Primary Care Services -- Health Workforce -- Health Information Systems -- Summary and Conclusions -- Appendix A: Graphs of Modeling Results from Chapter Three -- Appendix B: Monitoring Progress in Health Service Delivery -- Appendix C: Human Resource Indicators -- Appendix D: KRG Health Care Congress Presentation: Financing -- Appendix E: KRG Health Care Congress Presentation: Primary Care -- Appendix F: KRG Health Care Congress Presentation: Quality.

ISBN

• 0833085786
• 9780833085788

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library