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Ukraine
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From Kiev to Budapest: Paving the Road to Primary Healthcare (AIHA CommonHealth, Summer 2000) |
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Integrating Mental Health Into the Primary Care Model: The Kiev/Philadelphia Experience (AIHA CommonHealth, Fall 2000) |
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Model Primary Care Center Opens in Kiev, Ushers in New Era of Family Medicine (AIHA Connections, November 2000) |
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Kiev Conference Results in Call for Timely and Accessible Behavioral Health Services for Primary Care Patients (AIHA CommonHealth, Spring 2001) |
Examples of achievements at these facilities include:
In February 2001, the Miner's Health Center, a model Primary Healthcare Center serving miners and their families, opened in Donetsk at City Hospital No. 25. In addition to primary care services, this clinic offers a comprehensive range of occupational health services for miners and has a strong women's health component. A second primary healthcare clinic opened in Donetsk on July 11, 2002. The newly opened clinic focuses on screening and early detection of diseases, disease prevention and health promotion.
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Donetsk/Pittsburgh Partners Open Family Medicine Center (AIHA Connections, August 2002) |
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Kharkiv Primary Healthcare Centers Open, Bringing Comprehensive Services to Local Communities (AIHA Connections, March 2001) |
The partners established a model Primary Healthcare Center at the Kharkiv Aerospace University. Serving a population of 7,000 students between the ages of 16-28, the Kharkiv Aerospace Primary Healthcare Center focuses on health education and promotion of healthy lifestyles among students. As a result of a reorientation towards primary care, referrals to specialists decreased from 65 percent in 2001 to 32 percent in 2002. Additionally, this Primary Healthcare Center served as a replication model for the Kharkiv Oblast Health Administration. By mid-2004, more than 200 family medicine clinics were opened in rural areas of the Kharkiv Oblast and six primary care clinics opened on campuses of several Kharkiv universities with funding provided by the Kharkiv Oblast Health Administration and Kharkiv Universities.
AIHA selected Kyiv’s Primary Healthcare Center in the city’s Darnitsa District as a pilot site to conduct a patient satisfaction survey in July 2002 and found that 83 percent of patients were completely satisfied with the services provided at the center.
Four Primary Healthcare Centers in the L’viv region were fully equipped comparable to modern US family medicine clinics. Physicians received training in the use of medical and computer equipment. Following training, use of equipment was assessed and found to be well utilized and had improved the physicians' diagnostic capabilities and increased the scope of care provided to patients. A patient satisfaction survey administered following a training of nurses at the Zhovkva Primary Healthcare Center in a rural community just outside L’viv demonstrated that 92 percent of the surveyed population positively assessed the work of the primary care nurses.
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First AIHA Partnership Primary Healthcare Clinic Opens (AIHA Connections, July 2000) |
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AIHA Partners Work in Schools to Curb Adolescent Drinking and Smoking (AIHA Connections, January 2003) |
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Uzhgorod/Corvallis Partners Get the Word Out Against Smoking (AIHA Connections, February 2003) |
The Velykyi Bereznyi Primary Healthcare Center serves the rural population of approximately 9,500 individuals of Velykyi Bereznyi District near Uzhgorod. The Primary Healthcare Center opened at the Uzhgorod National University provides services to 140 families. The number of referrals to specialists at the Velykyi Bereznyi Primary Healthcare Center decreased from 53 percent at the time of the opening of the Center to 27 percent in May 2004.
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