Learning for quality health services: A new thematic discussion on HIFA
The WHO Global Learning Laboratory (GLL) for Quality UHC
and Healthcare Information For All (HIFA.org) are delighted to announce a
new thematic discussion on HIFA: Learning for quality health services.
The discussion starts on 28 June and will continue through to 20 August.
Quality of health
services is critical to achieving universal health coverage (UHC):
Between 5.7 and 8.4 million deaths are attributed to poor quality care
each year in low- and middle-income countries, accounting for up to 15%
of overall deaths in these countries. Improving access to health
services must go hand in hand with improving the quality of these
services. There is an urgent need to place quality at the centre of
national-, district- and facility-level actions in order to progress
towards UHC.
The discussion will explore in depth the following questions:
- What does quality of care mean to you, in your particular context? Why is it important to make the case for quality of care?
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From your experience, what might work best to enhance national
commitment to quality of care? Have you seen any practical solutions
that should be shared wider?
- From your
experience, what are the biggest challenges for district health managers
in tackling quality of care issues? Have you seen any practical
solutions that should be shared wider?
- From
your experience, what are the biggest challenges for improving quality
of care at the facility level? Have you seen any practical solutions
that should be shared wider?
Please forward this message to your contacts and networks and invite everyone to join us!
www.hifa.org/joinhifa
We
have more than 60 HIFA members volunteering for this project. Also, we
are introducing for the first time the concept of HIFA Catalysts, whose
role is to stimulate comment and debate. We look forward to a rich
discussion!
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh, HIFA Coordinator, neil AT hifa.org www.hifa.org
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Mapping some points to Hodges' model:
individual
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INTERPERSONAL :
SCIENCES
humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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group
SAFETY QUALITY of CAREcognitive access quantity of CARE health literacy mental health |
SAFETY faculty - facilities physical access QUANTITY of CARE quality of CARE
distance rural : urban Between 5.7 and 8.4 million deaths are attributed to poor quality care each year ... accounting for up to 15% of overall deaths in these countries |
| PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS |
low- and middle-income countries national commitment to quality of care Universal Health Coverage |
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