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Table 1 Study delivery model dimensions extracted with identified typologies

From: Understanding integrated service delivery: a scoping review of models for noncommunicable disease and mental health interventions in low-and-middle income countries

Dimension

Types identified

Health system level

Community

Health center

Secondary level facility

Outpatient

Inpatient

Tertiary level facility

Outpatient

Inpatient

Specialty outpatient clinic

Urban or rural

Urban

Rural

Peri-urban

Mixed

Scale

Single center

Small to medium scale

Large scale

National

Multi-country

Institution

Private

Public

Public (with external funding)

Nongovernmental organization (NGO)

Faith-based organization (FBO)

Integration type

New care delivery teams

Description of existing delivery models

Task redistribution within existing delivery models

New conditions integrated into existing delivery models

New services integrated into existing delivery models

New conditions and services integrated into existing delivery models

Primary provider

Lay staff

HIV counsellor

Social worker

Traditional healer

Community health worker (CHW)

Midlevel provider

Generalist physician

Specialist physician

No primary provider

Multidisciplinary team

Multi-cadre team

Patients’ fee

Free

Out of pocket

Copay

Decentralization

No

Yes

Task shifting

No

Yes

Linkage

Counter-referral

Referral

Mobile

No

Yes (including community campaigns and mobile clinics)

Effort of primary provider

Part-time

Full-time

Compensation of primary provider

Salaried

Fee-for-service

Volunteer

Servicea

Health promotion

Health education

Screening

Referral

Initial diagnosis

Adherence support

Peer group facilitation

Acute care

Home based care

Home based visits

Psychotherapy

Medication dispensing

Patient follow-up

Monitoring

Medication management

Condition categorya

Common chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)

Severe chronic NCDs

Common neuropsychiatric (NP)

Severe NP

Chronic infection

Acute infection

Maternal and child health

Conditions addressed through “primary health care”

Sense organ

  1. aFor definitions see supplementary Table 1