Tag Archives: Quality

Governing Quality in Health Care on the Path to Universal Health Coverage: A Review of the Literature and 25 Country Experiences

Governance and Leadership, Publications, Universal Health Coverage, Where We Work

While research has been conducted on service delivery and financing schemes for UHC, little consolidated knowledge or guidance is available on institutional arrangements and their impact on quality of care in the context of UHC. Responding to this need, the HFG project conducted a literature review to attempt to document global experience in institutional roles […]

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Providing Guidance on Governing for Quality in Health Care

Announcements, Leads, Where We Work

Improving the quality of patient-centered health services is paramount to delivering on the promise of universal health coverage (UHC). While countries seek to expand access to affordable care, working towards the goal of UHC, we need to provide greater attention to ensuring quality care. In a survey of over 100 government officials from nine Joint Learning Network (JLN) member […]

Governing for Quality Health Care

Governance and Leadership, Publications, Universal Health Coverage

Improving the quality of patient-centered health services is at the heart of delivering on the promise of universal health coverage (UHC) and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The WHO’s Framework on integrated people-centered health services  frames five strategies to achieve quality people-centered care, including creating an enabling environment that strives for quality improvement and […]

Quality maternity care for every woman, everywhere: a call to action

Journal Publications, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH), Universal Health Coverage

This paper is part of a series of six papers on maternal health published by The Lancet in 2016, which summarize the evidence on maternal health interventions and brings “our knowledge of maternal health, its epidemiology, successes, and current failings together, at a crucial time within the sustainable development framework to 2030.”

Institutional Roles and Relationships Governing the Quality of Health Care

Governance and Leadership, Publications, Universal Health Coverage, Where We Work

Improving the quality of patient-centered health services is paramount to delivering on the promise of universal health coverage (UHC). Many countries seek to expand access to affordable care; but ensuring quality of care during and after significant UHC reforms is recognized as a key challenge (JLN 2013). In a survey of over 100 government officials […]

Governing Quality-The Secret Sauce to UHC?

Presentations

Presented at USAID’s Global Health Mini-University 2016. In a recent survey of over 100 government officials, the need to improve the quality of health care emerged as their number one priority. With the new SDGs and the growing attention to achieve Universal Health Coverage, the international community has renewed focus on ensuring quality services are […]

The Governance of Quality: Defining Experiences and Success Factors in Institutional Roles and Relationships

Announcements, Governance and Leadership, HFG Project, Publications, Where We Work

In a survey of over 100 government officials from nine Joint Learning Network (JLN) member countries, the need to improve the quality of health care emerged as the number one priority. In subsequent collaborative work, JLN countries identified the challenge of setting institutional roles and responsibilities to govern national health care quality delivery as a […]

Strengthening the Health Workforce to Improve Quality and Achieve Universal Health Coverage

Presentations

This presentation focuses on three countries that are taking a systems approach to solving these two problems, with help from HFG: Haiti, Côte d’Ivoire, and Swaziland. In Haiti, HFG is working with the Ministry of Health to bolster its process for accrediting nursing education institutions, known as reconnaissance. More than 40 schools have already received […]

Strengthening India’s Public Health Workforce: A Landscape Analysis of Initiatives and Challenges

Health Systems Research, Human Resources for Health, Publications

For India’s public health system to deliver effectively, it is imperative that policymakers place strategic focus on tackling persistent HRH issues such as chronic shortage of health workers, unbalanced skill mix in the existing health workforce, and inequitable urban-rural distribution of health workers.

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