ProShëndetit II (Improving Primary Health Care in Albania II) Project, a three-year award which started in October 2006 builds upon the original ProShëndetit Project, under which URC, in collaboration with local and international partners, has worked since 2003. The project seeks to improve the quality of integrated primary health care services and increase service access and utilization in Albania as well as to improve the country's health care financing and strengthen its health information system.

• Improved Health Systems to Support Primary Health Care (PHC): working with partners to improve healthcare financing and reform and to strengthen the health information system.
• Improved Quality of Services in the Delivery of PHC: providers’ skills further developed, with a client focus, and standards established for licensing, certification, and accreditation systems.
• Increased Utilization of PHC Services: public awareness raised and communities engaged in accessing and utilizing services.

• Improving policies that allow for the expanded scope of PHC services;
• Team self-assessments of quality and management at health centers and among groups of providers at health posts;
• Training – which is just the beginning of performance improvement, the long-term objective;
• Improving policies that allow for the expanded scope of PHC services;
• Team self-assessments of quality and management at health centers and among groups of providers at health posts;
• Coaching between sites and among PHC providers; and
• Participation by community-based groups in health promotion and support of preventive care at home and in the community.

• Service Delivery
• Quality Improvement
• Access to Services
• Human Resources Development
• Health Financing
• Health Policy
• Health Management Information Systems
• Public Awareness
• Community Health Promotion
• Licensure, Certification and Accreditation

Geographic Focus

Click on map or link to see prefectures initially participating in the PRO Shëndetit Project

 

 

Participating Health Facilities by Prefecture (Click on thumbnail or links below for larger image, select "view, full screen" to best view map.)

• Berat
• Dibra
• Lezha
• Korca
• Shkodra

Berat		Dibra	Lezha
Korca		Shkodra

Partners

• Institute of Public Health
• Ministry of Finance
• Ministry of Local Governance and Decentralization
• Ministry of Education and Science
• Other National and International Organizations

U.S.-Based

• American Academy of Family Physicians

Pro Shëndetit Office