Improving Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

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 on key issues and themes in designing, supporting, and scaling up improvement
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Autorentext
Lani Rice Marquez, MHS, is the Knowledge Management Director for the USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) Project at University Research Co., LLC (URC). A health management and evaluation specialist, Lani has worked for over 30 years in international health programs, where much of her work has focused on strengthening the performance of facility-based and community-based health workers in low- and middle-income countries through improvement methods. For the past 10 years, she has led URC's efforts to apply knowledge management concepts and techniques to strengthen quality improvement program efficiency and impact.

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Inhalt
Part 1. Facility-level improvement.- Part 2. Community-level improvement.- Part 3. District/regional-level improvement.- Part 4. National-level improvement.- Part 5. Discussion.