Описание: OverviewBy James Heiby, USAIDOverall introduction to the book that explains the purpose of the book, a short explanation of what the improvement process is about, and briefly discusses what the book is not covering. Part 1: Facility-level improvement Case 1: Improving Quality of Care for Respiratory Tract Infections in Children: The Role of Capacity Building and Coaching in Supporting a Multi-Facility Improvement Team in Samtredia District, Georgia
By Tamar Chitashvili and Ekaterine Cherkezishvili, University Research Co., LLC
This case study describes the experience of a multi-facility quality improvement team in Imereti's Samtredia District in Georgia that addressed the quality of care for respiratory tract infections among children. The case study details the design and implementation of the improvement effort, and provides details about the capacity building and coaching support provided to the team that helped lead to improved health outcomes. Case 2: Integrating Gender to Improve Outcomes in an elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV Program at Ivukula Health Center III in Eastern Uganda
By Taroub Faramand, WI-HER, LLC
In partnership with Uganda's Ministry of Health, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded projects joined expertise in quality improvement and nutrition to put into practice an initiative that addressed all aspects of ensuring healthy HIV-free infants. This case study focuses on how a successful pilot team in eastern Uganda used quality improvement tools to identify clinic inefficiencies and put into action a plan to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and improve nutrition assessment, care and support services. Case 3: Improving HIV counseling and testing in tuberculosis service delivery in Ukraine: it all starts with one good team
By Nilufar Rakhmanova, FHI 360
Because TB and HIV programs in Ukraine functioned separately as vertical programs-focusing on specific health conditions-they often missed a window of opportunity for diagnosing HIV at an earlier phase of infection. This case study describes how a successful pilot team in Chervonograd, Ukraine used quality improvement methods to raise the rates of HIV counseling and testing offered to clients tested for TB and how the team scaled up its successes to other sites. Part 2: Community-level improvement Case 4: Strengthening accessibility of services to most vulnerable children through quality improvement approaches in community settings: Case of Bagamoyo district, Tanzania
By Flora Nyagawa, University Research Co., LLC
This case study describes a quality improvement approach to ensure implementation of the National Quality Improvement Guidelines for Most Vulnerable Children in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania. The case study largely focuses on the steps needed to organize improvement efforts; including how project participants formed teams, carried out introductory visits, initiated district and ward efforts, conducted baseline assessments, and built capacity. Case 5: Addressing behavior change with quality improvement methods in Guatemala
By Elena Hurtado, University Research Co., LLC
In Guatemala, quality improvement and collaborative learning methods were applied to two social and behavior change (SBCC) interventions to strengthen families' health and nutrition-related knowledge and behaviors. This case details the organization of the quality improvement effort and team formation, the role of coaches, and explores challenges to making the improvements a permanent part of health services.
Описание: This book, produced jointly by the World Bank, the University of California, Berkeley, and the WHO, aims to provide decision-makers at sub-national, national, regional and global levels with additional insights into how to address their workforce challenges rather than describe them. In order to optimize and align HRH investments and develop targeted policy responses, a thorough understanding of unique, country-specific labor market dynamics and determinants of these dynamics is critical. Policies need to take into account the fact that workers are economic actors, responsive to different levels of compensation and opportunities to generate revenue found in different sub-labor markets. Policies need to take into account the behavioral characteristics of the individuals who provide health care, but also the individuals who consume health care services and the institutions that employ health personnel. In other words, it is necessary to understand the determinants of both the supply (numbers of health workers willing to work in the health sector) and the demand for health workers (resources available to hire health workers), how these interact, and how this interaction varies in different contexts. This interaction will determine the availability of health personnel, their distribution as well as their performance levels, thus ensuring stronger health systems capable to deliver universal health coverage. The book is structured to be of use to researchers, planners, and economists who are tasked with analyzing key areas of health labor markets, including overall labor market assessments as well as and more narrow and targeted analyses of demand and supply (including production and migration), performance, and remuneration of health workers. The chapters, written by a number of internationally renowned experts on Human Resources for Health, discuss data sources and empirical tools that can be used to assess health labor markets across high-, middle- or low-income countries, but draws primarily from examples and case-studies in LMICs.
Описание: Many middle- and low-income countries are experiencing rapid urbanization, which creates a need for services, including sanitation. While some areas in some towns and cities are sewered, most people, especially the urban poor, continue to use various forms of on-site sanitation. These require periodic emptying and the material removed from them must be treated before reuse or discharge to the environment. Faecal Sludge and Septage Treatment confronts the urgent need to treat increasing volumes of faecal sludge and septage in the rapidly expanding towns and cities of the global south. It discusses the urban contexts that influence treatment requirements and overall septage treatment processes. It examines the options and design approaches at each stage of treatment, from reception, through preliminary treatment, solids - liquid separation, anaerobic and aerobic treatment of the separated liquid and solid fractions to systems to render treated products suitable for reuse in either agriculture or as a fuel. Faecal Sludge and Septage Treatment provides straightforward guidance on the options for faecal sludge treatment and the choices between those options. All concepts and approaches are clearly explained so as to make Faecal Sludge and Septage Treatment accessible to a non-specialist readership. Faecal Sludge and Septage Treatment is essential reading for planners and engineers working in local government; specialist central government departments; NGOs and consulting firms working on the planning and design of septage treatment plants; researchers and students studying urban sanitation.
Описание: Created by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the Quadruple Aim method is not nursing-specific, but its framework for optimizing health system performance is coherent with the nursing profession today. This book argues that the widespread adoption of the Quadruple Aim could help create a sustainable healthcare system.
Автор: Reinertsen, James, Название: 10 powerful ideas for improving patient care / ISBN: 1567932363 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781567932362 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 6270.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: The global health community is broadly in agreement that achievement of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) hinges upon both an escalation of the financial resources dedicated to primary health care (PHC) and a more effective use of those resources: more money, better spent. This book introduces and explicates the end-to-end resource tracking and management (RTM) framework, which includes five components that determine effective and efficient financing for PHC: resource mobilization, allocation, utilization, productivity, and targeting.In addition, this book compiles detailed results from the most recent RTM-based resource tracking efforts for PHC in selected countries. This is to demonstrate how the RTM framework can be used to bring a set of separate resource tracking efforts at different stages of flow of funds into a comprehensive process with an end-to-end 'storyline'. In order to build a functional PHC system that addresses access, quality, and equity issues, this book highlights the key (public) financing issues that researchers, technical advisors, and policy makers would need to address in addition to more resources.
Название: Impact of health insurance in low and middle-income countries ISBN: 0815705468 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815705468 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 4222.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Over the past twenty years, many low- and middle-income countries have experimented with health insurance options. While their plans have varied widely in scale and ambition, their goals are the same: to make health services more affordable through the use of public subsidies while also moving care providers partially or fully into competitive markets.
Colombia embarked in 1993 on a fifteen-year effort to cover its entire population with insurance, in combination with greater freedom to choose among providers. A decade later Mexico followed suit with a program tailored to its federal system. Several African nations have introduced new programs in the past decade, and many are testing options for reform. For the past twenty years, Eastern Europe has been shifting from government-run care to insurance-based competitive systems, and both China and India have experimental programs to expand coverage. These nations are betting that insurance-based health care financing can increase the accessibility of services, increase providers' productivity, and change the population's health care use patterns, mirroring the development of health systems in most OECD countries.
Until now, however, we have known little about the actual effects of these dramatic policy changes. Understanding the impact of health insurance-based care is key to the public policy debate of whether to extend insurance to low-income populations--and if so, how to do it--or to serve them through other means.
Using recent household data, this book presents evidence of the impact of insurance programs in China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ghana, Indonesia, Namibia, and Peru. The contributors also discuss potential design improvements that could increase impact. They provide innovative insights on improving the evaluation of health insurance reforms and on building a robust knowledge base to guide policy as other countries tackle the health insurance challenge.
Автор: Moreno-serra Rodrigo, Revill Paul, Suhrcke Marc, Sculpher Mark Название: Global Health Economics: Shaping Health Policy In Low- And Middle-income Countries ISBN: 9813272368 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789813272361 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 17424.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book contains a collection of works showcasing the latest research into global health economics conducted by leading experts in the field from the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University of York and other partner research institutions. Each chapter focuses upon an important topic in global health economics and a number of separate research projects. The discussion delves into health care policy evaluation; economic evaluation and the application of analysis methods; health equity and universal health coverage; consideration of cost-effectiveness thresholds and opportunity costs in the health sector; health system challenges and possible solutions; economics of health workforce planning; and others. Case study examples from a variety of low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) settings are also showcased in the final part of this volume.The research presented seeks to contribute toward increasing understanding on how health care systems can be enhanced to improve the welfare of LMIC populations. It is strongly recommended for public health policymakers and analysts in low- and middle-income country settings and those affiliated to international health organizations and donor organizations.
Описание: This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book examines the current state of elective placements of medical undergraduate students in developing countries and their impact on health care education at home.
Описание: Explores the health care systems of Denmark, Germany, and Sweden, and compares them with the system in the United States through 30 first-hand case reports by advanced medical students taking part in an international exchange program. This book describes how these health care systems have developed and how they differ.
Автор: Brown, Jack H.U. , Comola, Jacqueline Название: Improving Productivity In Health Care ISBN: 0367247534 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367247539 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "ANOTHER galaxy, another time." This was the opening line for Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, first published in December 1976, six months before the movie release of Star Wars: A New Hope. This novelization was ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster but credited to George Lucas. The book title would later be republished under the title Star Wars: A New Hope. This double-sided tee has the first edition cover art by artist Ralph McQuarrie on the front and the book description on the back. Product Details: 100% Cotton fitted tee, Distressed, softened print, colour: black. Size: Medium, Length: 28 1/2 inches, Chest: 39 1/2 inches. Each purchase helps to fund literacy programs and book donations to communities in need.
Автор: Healy Judith Название: Improving Health Care Safety and Quality: Reluctant Regulators ISBN: 0754676447 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754676447 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Responding to the alarm caused by recent hospital scandals and accounts of unintended harm to patients, this author draws on her experience of analyzing the health care systems of over a dozen countries and examines whether greater regulation has increased patient safety and health care quality. It will be of key interest to government actors, health care professionals and medico-legal scholars.
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