3+ projects expanding towards africa

Patient and Citizen Involvement in Health

About PCI Health

Empowering the Patient and Citizen voice for health decision making

Sub-Saharan Africa has made inspiring achievements towards universal health coverage (UHC). Realising UHC aspirations require population access to quality health services without financial hardship. However, the active involvement of patients and citizens in the resource allocation ecosystem, remains suboptimal. The Patient and Citizen Involvement in Health (PCI Health), missions to empower public involvement in evidence-informed decision making for health and social care. To achieve this, PCI Health delivers a life cycle, person-centred, and inclusive approach with programming across health system and population health, patient and public involvement advocacy and networks, and applied health economics, health financing and technology assessment.

CENTER FOR HEALTH ECONOMICS, FINANCING AND TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT (CHEFTA)

At CHEFTA, we support public involvement in evidence-informed deliberate processes to strengthen broader economic and sustainable health financing policy and health technology assessment towards UHC. Our project include expanding national health insurance to the informal sector and indigent population, public financial management and strategic purchasing and allocative efficiency through systematic decision making processes in benefits package and essential medicines & medical list.

PATIENT AND CITIZEN ADVOCACY NETWORK

Our work fosters strengthening a network of patient groups across all levels of care and disease programmes including orphan conditions. Our public involvement initiates are extending engagements beyond gatekeepers and groups representatives to actual communities and individuals. To steer the patient voice in the nexus of clinical care and ethics, our PCI legal & clinical care arm explores avenues to maintain patient autonomy in decision making. As health technologies advance, we actively use our networks to advance HTA evidence to support decision making.

Center for Health System and Population Health

Our dermatology programming fosters citizen involvement in Universal Health Coverage decisions through using the life course approach. We support strengthening of delivery systems, reduce legal, policy and structure barriers and leverage the inclusion of the private sector. Our services focuses on value for money approaches through priority setting process that are legitimate and transparent, to maximise public acceptability. We believe that situating the public at the centre of Vitiligo, Eczema, Scabies, Psoriasis, neglected Skin and other health conditions, is key in enhancing social protection and reducing poverty.

Center for Inequality, Poverty and Social Care

At PCI Health, we advance investments in good population health for ROI on human capital, including economic and social dividends. Our social care model fosters health promotion for the marginalised to avert years lived with disability. We support the patients during and after after disease management to ensure there is no loss to follow-up and challenges to community reintegration. Our tools include support for health insurance and social welfare inclusion, linkages to business capital, community savings, small grants for healthcare and community reintegration grant. With our model, no one is truly left behind.

We are expanding access to health and social care..

Informal sector with access to social protection through the National Health Insurance

Patient groups networked

Health Technology Assessment reports

Priority setting processes supported at sub-national level

Marginalised patients mapped and linked to health and sociaMarginalised patients mapped and linked to health care

People reached with social care and economic empowerment

Research on patient involvement conducted

Global and Local Partnerships Initiated

Come join us

If Patients and Citizens are treated as equal partners in the health and social care system, they get the chance to actively participate in their own health care process and more closely monitor their own care.

Events

We organize inclusive dermatology and associated allergy events for citizens to get involved

Help us raise money for the last mile population

21 June, 2022

The private sector & NHI

This Webinar draws on field research in Zambia on establishing factors that influence the inclusion of private-for-profit service providers in the NHIS. This evidence was used to support decision-making in NHIS implementation in Zambia and could prove invaluable to other countries considering the introduction and scaleup of the NHIS.

21 June, 2022

Use Cost-effectiveness analysis in LMICs workshop

The CHEFTA team will be participating at the R-HTA workshop to share experiences and advance the use of CEA’s in decision making for value for money approaches.

5 May, 2020

MOU with the Church of God

PCI health has expanded partnership by signing an MOU with the Church of God in Zambia. The partnership will foster an enabling environment for the informal sector, and marginalised groups including the elderly and disabled, for inclusion in social protection mechanisms.