HHCC definition
Examples of HHCC in a sentence
Checks or money orders for co-pays made payable to: Ho-Chunk Healthcare Center (HHCC).
Placed within the HHCC approach, which linked demand for services from the community to facilities that had received a variety of quality-enhancing interventions, there was an increased uptake in FP and EmONC service utilization in project-supported areas.
Primary health care must also be strengthened by adopting and implementing the Household and Community component of IMCI (IMCI HHCC); and the expeditious introduction and roll out of standardized management and referral guidelines for general practitioners.
Each component intervention played an essential role so that, when combined under HHCC, they resulted in increased utilization of maternal and newborn services.
The HHCC approach recognizes the importance of a successful maternal and newborn care program to systematically address maternal and newborn issues of the community and facility together using evidence-based interventions and best practices.
While little impact data was collected or is available for maternal and neonatal mortality, Table 13 illustrates the effect of the various activities that worked synergistically through the HHCC approach in the ACCESS/MCHIP Project areas.
The ACCESS/MCHIP Project promoted use of FP and EmONC services in selected LGAs in Zamfara, Kano and Katsina states from January 2006 to February 2012 through the Household to Hospital Continuum of Care (HHCC) approach that created awareness and increased demand at the community level, linked communities to facilities where providers had received skills training and improved management was being practiced.
Within this HHCC model, a number of best practice interventions were introduced at both the community and facility level.
Experience with highly successful ACCESS/MCHIP Project’s components (HHCC approach, community mobilization, Women’s Savings and Loan Groups, EmONC interventions), as well as less successful or inadequately documented newborn care interventions, should be fully shared with and taken into consideration by TSHIP and other FP/MNBC projects as soon as possible, both the positive and the negative.
USAID/Nigeria was one of the few Missions to choose to implement the entire HHCC approach, thus addressing all three delays that women experience in reaching appropriate EmONC services and maximizing the synergy and impact of all HHCC components.