About the Book
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. This book reports on a project which studied of how primary care services are delivered to children. The study, the first of its kind, has been undertaken over three years, with 20 scientific partners, and an expert agent in each country. Chapters address key questions such as professional patterns, service structure, and e-health. But it also addresses cross-cutting issues which have emerged, such as equity, listening to children and parents, quality, children's increasing autonomy across the life course, and inter-professional coordination.
Summarising the current policies for children's primary care in each country in the EU/EEA, authors consider the differences of structure and delivery, and of outcomes including financing, professional education, e-health and other supports.
Table of Contents:
Foreword; Mitch BlairChapter 1. The MOCHA Project: Origins, Approach and Methods; Mitch Blair, Denise Alexander, and Michael Rigby
Chapter 2. Models of Primary Care and Appraisal Frameworks; Mitch Blair, Mariana Miranda Autran Sampaio, Michael Rigby, and Denise Alexander
Chapter 3. Listening to Young People; Kinga Zdunek, Manna Alma, Janine van Til, Karin Groothuis-Oudshoorn, Magda Boere-Boonekamp, and Denise Alexander
Chapter 4. Child Centricity and Children's Rights; Kinga Zdunek, Michael Rigby, Shalmali Deshpande, and Denise Alexander
Chapter 5. Equity; Mitch Blair and Denise Alexander
Chapter 6. The Limited Inclusion of Children in Health and Health-Related Policy; Mitch Blair, Michael Rigby, Arjun Menon, Michael Mahgerefteh, Grit Kühne, and Shalmali Deshpande
Chapter 7. The Invisibility of Children in Data Systems; Michael Rigby, Shalmali Deshpande, Daniela Luzi, Fabrizio Pecoraro, Oscar Tamburis, Ilaria Rocco, Barbara Corso, Nadia Minicuc, Harshana Liyanage, Uy Hoang, Filipa Ferreira, Simon de Lusignan, Ekelechi MacPepple, and Heather Gage
Chapter 8. The Conundrum of Measuring Children's Primary Health Care; Ilaria Rocco, Barbara Corso, Daniela Luzi, Fabrizio Pecoraro, Oscar Tamburis, Uy Hoang, Harshana Liyanage, Filipa Ferreira, Simon de Lusignan, Nadia Minicuci
Chapter 9. Measurement Conundrums: Explaining Child Health Population Outcomes in MOCHA Countries; Heather Gage and Ekelechi MacPepple
Chapter 10. Services and Boundary Negotiation for Children with Complex Needs; Maria Brenner, Miriam O’Shea, Anne Clancy, Stine Lundstroem Kamionka, Philip Larkin, Sapfo Lignou, Daniela Luzi, Elena Montañana Olaso, Manna Alma, Fabrizio Pecoraro, Rose Satherley, Oscar Tamburis, Keishia Taylor, Austin Warters, Ingrid Wolfe, Jay Berry, Colman Noctor, and Carol Hilliard
Chapter 11. School Health Services; Danielle Jansen, Hanneke Vervoort, Annemieke Visser, Sijmen A. Reijneveld, Paul Kocken, Gaby de Lijster, and Pierre Andre Michaud
Chapter 12. Primary Care for Adolescents; Pierre-Andre Michaud and Danielle Jansen
Chapter 13. Workforce and Professional Education; Mitch Blair, Heather Gage, Ekelechi MacPepple, Pierre-Andre Michaud, Carol Hilliard, Anne Clancy, Eleanor Hollywood, Maria Brenner, Amina Al-Yassin, and Catharina Nitsche
Chapter 14. E-Health as the Enabler of Primary Care for Children; Michael Rigby, Grit Kühne, and Shalmali Deshpande
Chapter 15. Affiliate Contributors to Primary Care for Children; Denise Alexander, Uttara Kurup, Arjun Menon, Michael Mahgerefteh, Austin Warters, Michael Rigby, and Mitch Blair
Chapter 16. The Transferability of Primary Child Health Care Systems; Paul Kocken, Eline Vlasblom, Gaby de Lijster, Helen Wells, Nicole van Kesteren, Renate van Zoonen, Kinga Zdunek, Sijmen A. Reijneveld, Mitch Blair, and Denise Alexander
Chapter 17. National and Public Cultures as Determinants of Health Policy and Production; Kinga Zdunek, Mitch Blair, and Denise Alexander
Chapter 18. Bringing MOCHA Lessons to Your Service; Magda Boere-Boonekamp, Karin Groothuis-Oudshoorn, Tamara Schloemer, Peter Schröder-Bäck, Janine van Til, Kinga Zdunek, and Paul Kocken
Chapter 19. Evidence to Achieve an Optimal Model for Children's Health in Europe; Mitch Blair, Michael Rigby, and Denise Alexander
About the Author :
Mitch Blair is Professor of Pediatrics and Child Public Health at Imperial College London and Consultant Pediatrician at Northwick Park Hospital. Michael Rigby is Visiting Professor in the Section of Pediatrics in Imperial College London and Emeritus Professor of Health Information Strategy at Keele University.
Denise Alexander is Research Coordinator of the Models of Child Health Appraised (MOCHA) EU project at Imperial College London and Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.
Review :
The Models of Child Health Appraised (MOCHA) project explored both the clinical aspects and wider aspects of primary child health care in Europe from 2015 to 2018. Researchers present their findings regarding such matters as models of primary care and appraisal frameworks, the limited inclusion of children in health and health-related policy, the conundrum of measuring children's primary health care, services and boundary negotiations for children with complex care needs in Europe, workforce and professional education, and national and public cultures as determinants of health policy and production.
