Prevention and Self-Management Care

Access to health care can be difficult in rural areas. It is also much more expensive to treat sickness than prevent illness where possible. Focus efforts on wellness education and illness prevention.

Provide Patient-Centered Health Care Services

Policy development, program planning, and service delivery must ensure a focus on patient care is Kept at the forefront of health care decisions.

Engage in Partnerships and Coordinated Efforts

Opportunities for collaboration are currently underutilized at the community, regional and provincial levels. Regulated health care partners specializing in health prevention strategies are not networked or made use of.

Innovative Service Delivery to Rural Communities

Address organizational, technical, transportation, and implementation barriers to improve the delivery of services to rural Sierra Leone.

Human Resource Development

Barriers and challenges related to Human Resources within the health system need to be addressed. From the education and training of practitioners to recruitment and retention challenges in rural areas; from pay equity issues, to utilizing providers in appropriate circumstances and to their full scope of practice - addressing these challenges must be part of any strategy aimed at benefiting rural communities.

Engage in Research

The Foundation will engage in research to broaden and deepen rural health evidence-based and make it available to practitioners and health networks

Utilize Information Technology

Utilization of various Information Technology tools and services to support this initiative will go a long way to train, educate, diagnose, research, collaborate, treat, and prevent diseases. E.g. Use of drones to deliver medications, video to educate, train and diagnose diseases with other partners.