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Blair, M, Alexander, D and Rigby, M (2019) The MOCHA Project: Origins, Approach and Methods. In: Issues and Opportunities in Primary Health Care for Children in Europe. Emerald. ISBN 978-1-78973-354-9
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Abstract
Primary care (PC) is a strong determinant of overall health care. Children make up around a fifth of the population of the European Union and European Economic Area and have their own needs and uptake of PC. However, there is little research into how well PC services address their needs. There are large differences in childhood mortality and morbidity patterns in the EU and EEA countries, and there has been a major epidemiological shift in the past half century from predominantly communicable disease, to non-communicable diseases presenting and increasingly managed in PC. This increase in multifactorial morbidities, such as obesity and learning disability, has led to the need for PC systems to adapt to accommodate these changes. Europe presents a challenging picture of unexplained variation in health care delivery and style and of children’s different health experiences and health-related behaviour. The Models of Child Health Appraised (MOCHA) project aimed to describe the PC systems in detail, analyse their components and appraise them from a number of different viewpoints, including professional, public, political and economic lenses. It did this through nine work packages supported by a core management team, and a network of national agents, individuals in each MOCHA country who had the expertise in research and knowledge of their national health care system to answer a wide range of questions posed by the MOCHA scientific teams.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Additional Information: | Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited Copyright © 2019 European Commission License This chapter is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this chapter (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Child health, Primary care, Scientific appraisal, Research, Child morbidity, Child |
Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics |
Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Science and Public Policy |
Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 29 Aug 2019 14:43 |
Last Modified: | 30 Aug 2019 15:15 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/6737 |