Table 2.
B. Health workforce Aim: prevent and address discrimination and ensure workforce is enabled to deliver the service. Relevance: providers ✓✓ policymakers ✓ |
Yes | No | Not relevant/comments |
Do all staff members receive education and training on: | |||
B1. Health and social care needs and challenges among underserved communities? | |||
B2. Users’ rights to health and social services, and principles of non-discriminatory equal access? |
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B3. Sensitivity regarding relevant cultural, faith, gender and lifestyle matters among user communities? |
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B4. Communication skills (including appropriate terminology)? | |||
B5. Stress management? | |||
B6. Conflict management? | |||
B7. Do healthcare staff receive suitable training to deliver the necessary services according to current evidence-based guidelines and best practices? | |||
B8. Is the training provided to healthcare staff accredited for continuing medical education? | |||
B9. Are peer support workers given suitable training to fulfil their roles? | |||
B10: Are healthcare staff and peer support workers given peer-to-peer support, supervision or psychological aid, if necessary? | |||
Do workforce training programmes include contributions from: | |||
B11. People from the target community? | |||
B12. Professional peers (‘champions’)? |
C. Health information systems Aim: check that the service is used by the community and meets users’ needs. Relevance: providers ✓✓ policymakers ✓ |
Yes | No | Not relevant/comments |
C1. Are people from the target community involved in how the service is assessed? | |||
Are suitable systems in place to monitor the: | |||
C2. Usage of the service by the communities? | |||
C3. Quality and impact of the service provided? | |||
C4. Is there a formal process to capture users’ feedback on the service, including complaints? | |||
C5. Are feedback loops in place to ensure that monitoring and user feedback help to improve the service? | |||
C6. Are data gathered (with informed consent where appropriate and in a data protection-compliant manner) for research and advocacy purposes? | |||
C7. Does the service apply quality standards? |
D. Medical products and technologies Aim: ensure that all service users have equitable access to care. Relevance: providers✓✓ policymakers ✓✓ |
Yes | No | Not relevant/comments |
D1. Do care protocols, guidelines and policies provide all service users with equitable and barrier-free access to medical products and technologies according to the best possible, evidence-based standard of care that is locally available? |