Evidence shows that a robust primary healthcare service improves the health outcomes of communities. A strong primary healthcare system is crucial to achieving health-related sustainable development goals (SDG) and attaining universal health coverage (UHC) for all including access to safe, effective, quality, and affordable essential healthcare services. While both rural and urban area of India has their share of challenges in organizing such strong primary health care, the urban health system, in particular, has posed new challenges and complexities in the recent past. Health needs and challenges are complex with the presence of pluralistic health systems and multiple stakeholders in urban areas; hence, there is an urgent need for a comprehensive and multipronged approach to address such complex issues.

KHPT in partnership with Landmark Group and the Government of Karnataka (GoK) has implemented a pilot project to develop a Primary Health Care model for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Mysuru city.

Against this backdrop, KHPT in partnership with Health System Transformation Platform (HSTP) and St. John’s Research Institute (SJRI) sought to advance its learning and experience from the NCD pilot to a broader, comprehensive primary health care (CPHC) model/s in Mysuru city through an implementation research design.

We proposed to develop an urban health model for providing comprehensive primary healthcare (CPHC) in Mysuru city through implementation research design. The primary objectives of this workshop in the broader sense would be to brainstorm regarding strengthening urban health systems to improve demand, reach, and quality of CPHC services, explore an optimal payment mechanism for CPHC services in the private sector, and also to explore and develop an effective model of motivating and sustaining CHWs in urban areas