Table 1. Summary of existing health-sector integration interventions in low- and middle-income countries and forms of integration adopted.
Level of IPV service integration | Models of integration |
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Primary level |
Secondary and tertiary level |
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Reproductive health | Primary health centre | Emergency department | Reproductive health | Mental health/counselling | ||
Level 1: selective provider- and/or facility-level integration (same site)a | CONFAD, Brazil (1 health centre)34,36 | Family counselling centres, Honduras33 | ||||
Level 2: comprehensive provider- and/or facility-level integration (same site)b | Profamilia, Dominican Republicc (6 family planning clinics)29,37 | OSCC - Malaysia (in 97 state and district hospitals)32 - Bangladesh (6 hospitals)38 - Namibia (several hospitals)16 - Thailand (1 hospital)39 | ||||
Level 3: systems-level integration (multisite linkage)d | Inppares, Peruc (4 family planning clinics)37 | Prime II, Armenia (1 polyclinic)31 | ||||
Plafam, Venezuelac (3 family planning clinics)40 | Women’s Friendly Hospital, Bangladesh (30 hospital facilities)30,41 | |||||
Gender recovery centre, Kenya (1 private hospital)42 |
IPV, intimate partner violence; OSCC, One-Stop Crisis Centre; NGOs, nongovernmental organizations. a Integration of one or two IPV service components in vertical programmes. b Comprehensive range of IPV services delivered in one service setting. c These programmes could be classified under both levels 2 and 3, as they provide comprehensive services in one facility (with internal referrals), but also have referrals to external services. They aimed to be comprehensive in one facility, but started with multisite referrals. d Range of basic IPV services delivered at one setting, with external referrals to specialized services.