title: A global health delivery framework approach to epilepsy care in resource-limited settings.
abstract: The Global Health Delivery (GHD) framework (Farmer, Kim, and Porter, Lancet 2013;382:1060-69) allows for the analysis of health care delivery systems along four axes: a care delivery value chain that incorporates prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of a medical condition; shared delivery infrastructure that integrates care within existing healthcare delivery systems; alignment of care delivery with local context; and generation of economic growth and social development through the health care delivery system. Here, we apply the GHD framework to epilepsy care in rural regions of low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) where there are few or no neurologists.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: margaret_cochran@hms.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Maggie F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Cochran
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: aberkowitz3@partners.org.
authors.forename: Aaron L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Berkowitz
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000191:economics* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy*; D014943:Global Health / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans
keywords: Epilepsy; Global health; Health systems