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Improving water, sanitation and hygiene in health-care facilities, LiberiaProblem The lack of proper water and sanitation infrastructures and poor hygiene practices in health-care facilities reduces facilities’ preparedness and response to disease outbreaks and decreases the communities’ trust in the health ser...
Health SDG3 Universal Health CoverageJournal Article
Observations of infection prevention and control practices in primary health care, KenyaObjective To assess compliance with infection prevention and control practices in primary health care in Kenya...
Health SDG3 Universal Health CoverageJournal Article
Implementation research to improve quality of maternal and newborn health care, MalawiObjective To evaluate the impact of a performance-based financing scheme on maternal and neonatal health service quality in Malawi...
Health SDG3 Universal Health CoveragePolicy seminar
Policy Seminar - Launch of WHO Bulletin theme issue 'Measuring quality of care'
Blog
Quality of routine labor and delivery care in Uttar Pradesh, India: Are private facilities better?
In India, the percentage of women who delivered in a health facility increased from roughly 35% in 2000 to 79% in 2014 ...
Quality of care SDG3 Health-careBlog
Building the learning agenda: Spotlight on the Global Learning Laboratory for Quality Universal Health Coverage
Improving the delivery of quality health services is messy! Vast amounts of knowledge and experience is being generated daily...
Health Quality of care SDG3Working Paper
Quality of routine essential care during childbirth: Clinical observations of uncomplicated births in Uttar Pradesh, IndiaObjective: To evaluate the quality of essential care during normal labour and childbirth in maternity facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India...
Childbirth India Quality of careWorking Paper
Changing the narratives for patient safetyPatient safety is a global public health issue, causing death and suffering in all types of patients and incurring costs in all countries...
Global health Narratives of patient safety Quality of careWorking Paper
Developing global indicators for quality of maternal and newborn care: A feasibility assessmentObjective: To assess the feasibility of applying the World Health Organization’s proposed 15 indicators of quality of care for maternal and newborn health at health-facility level in low- and middle-income settings...
Healthcare Maternal health Maternity servicesWorking Paper
Improving the quality of hospital care for children by supportive supervision: A cluster randomized trial, KyrgyzstanObjective: To determine whether periodic supportive supervision after a training course improved the quality of paediatric hospital care in Kyrgyzstan, where inappropriate care was common but in-hospital postnatal mortality was low...
Cluster randomized trial Kyrgyzstan Paediatric hospital careWorking Paper
Variation in quality of primary-care services in Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda and the United Republic of TanzaniaObjective: To analyse factors affecting variations in the observed quality of antenatal and sick-child care in primary-care facilities in seven African countries...
Antenatal care Sick-child care Quality of careWorking Paper
Quality of care: Measuring a neglected driver of improved healthThe quality of care provided by health systems contributes towards efforts to reach sustainable development goal 3 on health and wellbeing...
Health interventions Health systems Quality of careBlog
Measuring outpatient safety at scale: infection prevention and control practices in KenyaPrimum non nocere — first, do no harm. This most basic tenet of medical care is routinely violated in clinics and hospitals around the world today ...
Quality of care Health SDG3Journal Article
Changing the narratives for patient safetyPart of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care
Health SDG3 Universal Health CoverageJournal Article
Maternal and neonatal services in Ethiopia: measuring and improving qualityPart of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care
Health SDG3 Universal Health CoverageJournal Article
Quality of care: measuring a neglected driver of improved healthPart of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care
Health SDG3 Universal Health Coverage