2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Roles of primary health care during health systems rehabilitation and development: community health research by using qualitative approaches

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23590789
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Public health/Health science
Research Institution	Nagoya University
Principal Investigator	HIGUCHI Michiyo 名古屋大学, 医学(系)研究科(研究院), 特任准教授 (00547557)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	MIZUMOTO Kaori 福岡女子大学, 人間環境学部, 准教授 (20581630)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Keywords	プライマリヘルスケア / アクセス / 地域保健 / 質的研究 / 東ティモール / 国際情報交換
Research Abstract	This qualitative research aimed to describe how people perceived primary health care (PHC) activities and how PHC had been established in Timor-Leste during the health systems rehabilitation and development period. Multiple stakeholder interviews to 189 people were conducted at the central level as well as at the district, sub-district, and community levels in four districts. Text data were qualitatively analysed by using the Framework Approach. Key health information had reached to people in the community, and it was considered that standardisation and continuation in PHC activities were influential factors. It was suggested that management systems at different levels were insufficient: for programme monitoring/evaluation at the central level, for analyses of activities at the district/sub-district levels, and for individual activities, such as SISCa, at the community level.