This book aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the emerging concept, practice, and evidence for People-Centered Integrated Primary Healthcare (PCIPHC) in Asia. The book is organized into three parts. Part I introduces the concept framework of PCIPHC and highlights the similarities and differences between PCIPHC and relevant concepts, and emphasizes the added value of PCIPHC. Part II presents case studies of PCIPHC development in selected regions in China. Many policies were developed to move forward with the integration of healthcare services across different levels of care in order to move away from hospital-centric care model and downward healthcare services to the primary healthcare level. The successful experiences and challenges implementing these systems and policies have not been summarized well especially in the English-language literature. This book collected a variety of cases from across China to fill this gap. Part III presents additional case studies of PCIPHC from selected Asian countries and beyond that are rarely captured in the global healthcare delivery literature. These cases further enrich our understanding about approaches and experiences of the development of PCIPHC at the regional and country levels, and provide a unique cross-country learning opportunity to those who are interested in obtaining practical knowledge and skills that are able to improve PCIPHC design and implementation including policymakers, practitioners, healthcare professionals, researchers, instructors, and students.
Dr Hong Wang has over 30 years of experience in health economics, financing, and systems in developing countries. He is a Senior Policy Advisor/Senior Program Officer at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). Currently, he manages healthcare financing, integrated healthcare, health service purchasing and provider incentives, and poverty reduction (including primary healthcare and women and children's health) related investment in China and strategic purchasing for primary healthcare in Southeast Asia. Dr Wang also holds the position of Affiliate Professor at the Department of Global Health, University of Washington, USA. Before joined BMGF, Dr Wang was a Principal Associate/Senior Health Economist in Abt Associates Inc. as the technical lead on health financing-related projects in many other low- and middle-income countries such as in India, Indonesia, Bangladeshi, Nigeria, Liberia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, Senegal, Mali, and among others. Dr Wang was an Assistant/Clinical Associate Professor at Yale School of Public Health, an Associate Professor/Acting Director in the Health Economics Department at Beijing Medical University, and an Adjunct Professor/Deputy Director at National Health Economics Institute, China. Dr Wang graduated from Beijing Medical University (Public Health) and The University of Wisconsin/Madison (PhD in Population Health and Health Economics).
Dr Helena Legido-Quigley is a Professor and Chair in Health Systems at Imperial College and the George Institute for Global Health UK, as well as Chair of the Board for BMJ Public Health. She also holds adjunct professorship at the University of Oslo and is a Visiting Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health in Singapore, in addition to being an Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She serves as an associate fellow of Chatham House and is the Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier's
Journal of Migration and Health.
Her research spans health policy and health systems in Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, with a focus on primary healthcare and people-centeredness, particularly in developing grassroots indicators. Specific areas of expertise include global health, health system resilience, and the health of migrant and refugee populations. Her latest research focuses on pandemic preparedness and response and the future of the global health architecture.
Helena Legido-Quigley has authored around 200 publications in reputable peer-reviewed journals such as
The Lancet, Nature Medicine, and
The BMJ. She has actively disseminated her public health expertise on successful COVID-19 strategies through international media outlets including
CNN, BBC, ITV, The Guardian, Financial Times, Washington Post, The Economist, and
New York Times, among others.
Dr Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH is the Executive Director of Ariadne Labs, a health systems innovation center at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health. He leads Ariadne Labs' efforts to design, test, and spread scalable solutions that make domestic and global health systems more safe, equitable, and integrated. He has served as a senior advisor for primary care policy at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation in the US since 2012, helping to design and implement five major primary care initiatives, representing the largest tests of combined primary care payment and clinical practice transformation work in the United States. He was a core founder and vice chair of the steering committee for the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative, an eight-year partnership that included more than 25 countries and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, The Global Fund, and others, dedicated to improving the global provision of primary healthcare. Dr Bitton practices primary care at a team-based community primary care practice in urban Boston that he helped found in 2011. He currently serves on the boards of the National Committee for Quality Assurance and for Health Leads in the US. He is a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Bipartisan Commission on Strengthening America's Health Security, and is an elected member of the International Academy of Quality and Safety. He formerly served on the National Advisory Council for the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality in the US. He was a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (US) committee that produced the widely cited report
Implementing High-Quality Primary Care: Rebuilding the Foundation of Health Care in 2021, and currently serves on the National Academies Standing Committee for Primary Care, co-chairing the payment workgroup. He is the recipient of the 2023 Barbara Starfield Primary Care Leadership Award. He received a AB degree from Brown University, a MD degree from the University of California, San Francisco, and a MPH from Harvard University.
