Accreditation of Healthcare Professionals' Education in Pacific Island...
This brief discusses accreditation of health worker education programs, evidence on accreditation models, the importance of accreditation in the Pacific and the policy implications. [adapted from author]
View ArticleEvaluation of a Quality Improvement Intervention to Prevent Mother-to-Child...
This study evaluates the impact of an intervention that improve the quality of services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV at its health facilities, which included provider training,...
View ArticleContinuing Professional Development (CPD) Guideline for Health Professionals...
With the ultimate aim of improving the health status of Ethiopians through the delivery of quality health services by competent health professionals, this guideline helps to establish a CPD system in...
View ArticleDirective on Continuing Professional Development for Health Professionals
This directive outlines the systematic organization of the fragmented continuing professional development (CPD) activities of health professionals in Ethiopia and describes the CPD requirements and...
View ArticleImpact Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Intervention on Maternal and Child...
This study aimed to evaluate the influence of a national child survival quality improvement project, on key maternal and child health outcomes. [adapted from abstract]
View ArticlePhysician Tracking in Sub-Saharan Africa: Current Initiatives and Opportunities
The objective of this study is to provide information on the current state of physician tracking systems in the region, highlighting emerging themes and innovative practices. [from abstract]
View ArticleSurgical Care in the Developing World-Strategies and Framework for Improvement
The purpose of this study was to identify the various problems with surgical care in the developing world and enumerate identified strategies or propose solutions. We also sought to rank these...
View ArticleEngaging with Health Markets in Low and Middle-Income Countries
Many low and middle-income countries have pluralistic health systems with a variety of providers of health-related goods and services in terms of their level of training, their ownership (public or...
View ArticleAs good as physicians: patient perceptions of physicians and non-physician...
This study investigates patient views of physicians (Medical Officers) and NPCs in terms of patient satisfaction, perceived quality, and provider trust. [from abstract]
View ArticleWhat’s the World Health Organization For? Final Report from the Centre on...
The Chatham House Working Group on Health Governance was formed to consider, in the first instance, the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the international system that supports global...
View ArticleEmpirical Investigation of Service Quality in Ghanaian Hospitals
This study was undertaken to assess perceived service quality in hospitals located in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The research was a cross-sectional survey which employed the use of a modified...
View ArticleAn Interventional Model to Develop Health Professionals in West Africa
The health sector is characterized by a human resource base lacking in numbers, specialized skills, and management skills. West African Health Organization (WAHO) recognizes the need within the West...
View ArticleReducing Maternal and Neonatal Mortality in Indonesia: Saving Lives, Saving...
Quality of care is at the heart of any health care program, and yet it is defined in different ways and is difficult to measure. It is determined not only by the capabilities of health facilities and...
View ArticleSauti Za Wananchi “Voice of the People”: Patient's Satisfaction on the...
Patient’s satisfaction is one indicator of healthcare quality. Few studies have examined the inpatient experiences in resource-scarce environments in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper examines patient’s...
View ArticleQuality Use of Medicines within Universal Health Coverage: Challenges and...
Medicines are a major driver of quality, safety, equity, and cost of care in low and middle-income country health systems. Universal health coverage implementers must explicitly address appropriate use...
View ArticleAssessing Performance of Botswana’s Public Hospital System: The Sse of the...
Very few studies have assessed performance of Botswana public hospitals. We draw from a large research study assessing performance of the Botswana Ministry of Health (MoH) to evaluate the performance...
View ArticleEngaging Frontline Health Providers in Improving the Quality of Health Care...
Quality of care can be significantly improved by engaging teams of frontline workers to identify problems and find local solutions for those problems. Based on the results achieved in Kunduz, Balkh,...
View ArticlePicking Up the Bill - Improving Health-Care Utilisation in the Democratic...
Our research brings mixed findings on the effectiveness of user fee subsidisation as a strategy to increase the utilisation of services. Future work should focus on feasibility issues associated with...
View ArticleLean Management in the South African Public Health Sector: A Case Study
This chapter gives an account of one relatively modest but effective intervention in an orthopaedic outpatient clinic at the New Somerset Hospital (NSH) in Cape Town in 2013. This project aimed to...
View ArticleTeamwork and Patient Safety in Dynamic Domains of Healthcare: A Review of the...
This review examines current research on teamwork in highly dynamic domains of healthcare such as operating rooms, intensive care, emergency medicine, or trauma and resuscitation teams with a focus on...
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