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Presents real-life case studies, from all levels of the healthcare system and addressing a wide range of health topics, to teach readers about using quality improvement methodology to strengthen health care in lower- and middle-income countries
Teaches readers about the process of designing improvement efforts, choosing priorities, carrying out activities, understanding results, building health worker capacity to improve care, engaging leadership, and applying lessons learned from improvement to spread and scale up initiatives
Provides rich detail on how improvement work is applied in practice rather than focusing on methodologies and theory
Includes expert commentaries and analysis to guide the reader in understanding results and themes in designing, supporting, and scaling up improvement
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The chapters feature cases that provide real-life examples of the challenges, solutions, and benefits of improving healthcare quality and clearly demonstrate for readers what quality improvement looks like in practice:
- Addressing Behavior Change in Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health with Quality Improvement and Collaborative Learning Methods in Guatemala
- Haiti’s National HIV Quality Management Program and the Implementation of an Electronic Medical Record to Drive Improvement in Patient Care
- Scaling Up a Quality Improvement Initiative: Lessons from Chamba District, India
- Promoting Rational Use of Antibiotics in the Kyrgyz Republic
- Strengthening Services for Most Vulnerable Children through Quality Improvement Approaches in a Community Setting: The Case of Bagamoyo District, Tanzania
- Improving HIV Counselling and Testing in Tuberculosis Service Delivery in Ukraine: Profile of a Pilot Quality Improvement Team and Its Scale‐Up Journey
Improving Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Case Book will find an engaged audience among healthcare providers and administrators implementing and managing improvement projects at Ministries of Health in low- to middle-income countries. The book also aims to be a useful reference for government donor agencies, their implementing partners, and other high-level decision makers, and can be used as a course text in schools of public health, public policy, medicine, and development.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT:
This work was conducted under the USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) Project, USAID Award No. AID-OAA-A-12-00101, which is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
DISCLAIMER:
The contents of this book are the sole responsibility of the Editor(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.
Keywords
- quality improvement methodology
- improvement science
- health care improvement methods
- case studies
- global health
- public health
- strengthening health systems
- improving health outcomes
- patient-centered care
- low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
- scale-up initiatives
- healthcare systems
- quality of care
- healthcare access
- sustainability
- facility-level improvement
- community-level improvement
- district/regional-level improvement
- national-level improvement
- open access
Editors and Affiliations
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University Research Co., LLC (URC), Bethesda, USA
Lani Rice Marquez
About the editor
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Improving Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Book Subtitle: A Case Book
Editors: Lani Rice Marquez
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43112-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: University Research Co., LLC 2020
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43111-2Published: 27 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43114-3Published: 18 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43112-9Published: 26 May 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 245
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Services Research, Development and Health, Health Administration, Health Care Management