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Overview. More. Quality of care is the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes. It is based on evidence-based professional knowledge and is critical for achieving universal health coverage. As countries commit to achieving Health for All, it is imperative to carefully ...
2020年7月20日 · Inadequate quality of care imposes costs of US$ 1.4–1.6 trillion each year in lost productivity in LMICs. In high-income countries, 1 in 10 patients is harmed while receiving hospital care, and 7 in every 100 hospitalized patients can expect to acquire a health care-associated infection. It has been estimated that high quality health systems ...
2019年10月10日 · This document – Delivering quality health services: a global imperative for universal health coverage – describes the essential role of quality in the delivery of health care services. As nations commit to achieving universal health coverage by 2030, there is a growing acknowledgement that optimal health care cannot be delivered by simply ...
2022年6月20日 · WHO has just released the new WHO Quality Toolkit, which provides tools to improve the quality of health services, gathered together for the first time, from across different programmes at WHO. This new online resource is a user-friendly toolkit to support action on improving the quality of health services at every level of the health system, from national and district to facility and ...
An additional 290 million people are projected to have access to high-quality health-care services without incurring financial hardship by 2023, which will nevertheless leave a significant expected shortfall of 710 million. With accelerated progress, it may be possible to close the shortfall by about 30%.
2018年7月5日 · Low quality healthcare is increasing the burden of illness and health costs globally. Poor quality health services are holding back progress on improving health in countries at all income levels, according to a new joint report by the OECD, World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank. Today, inaccurate diagnosis, medication errors ...
2024年10月17日 · Primary health care (PHC) addresses the majority of a person’s health needs throughout their lifetime. This includes physical, mental and social well-being and it is people-centred rather than disease-centred. PHC is a whole-of-society approach that includes health promotion, disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care.
2023年12月11日 · Health service quality must be a priority, not an afterthought: New Collection on quality of care. Countries need to ensure continuous attention to the quality of their healthcare services, including during emergencies, contends a new Collection of articles launched today in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
Universal health coverage means that all people have access to the full range of quality health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship. It covers the full continuum of essential health services, from health promotion to prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care.
2018年8月2日 · Overview. This paper provides governments and policy-makers with an overview of the key issues of quality in primary health care and its importance to achieving the broad public health goals within universal health coverage. It makes the case for quality improvement as a core function of primary health care and provides the perspectives of ...
