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Strategy for Quality of Care in Family Planning and Reproductive Health
The Strategy for Quality of Care was designed to assist SEATS II staff in understanding the project's approach to quality of care and to give them practical guidance in planning, implementing, and evaluating quality of care and continuous quality improvement strategies within their programs.…
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Integrating Reproductive Health into NGO Programs Volume 1: Family Planning
This Handbook can be used either for self-guided study and reference, or as the basis for a facilitated workshop for NGO participants. The Handbook is divided into six "action steps" to guide an NGO manager in deciding whether, and how, to integrate family planning services. Each step covers…
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Utilizing the Potential of Formal and Informal Private Practitioners in Child Survival: Situation Analysis and Summary of Promising Interventions
Studies from different parts of the world show that formal and informal private practitioners are popular sources of treatment for diarrhea, acute respiratory infection, and malaria, which combined are estimated to cause over half of childhood mortality in developing countries. Private…
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Private Foundations and Corporate Grantmakers in Africa
The purpose of this document is to pull together in accessible form information on private foundations and grantmakers and their activities and priorities for Africa within the various sectors that USAID works. It is anticipated that this document will facilitate the formation of partnerships…
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Quality-Based Payment: Six Case Examples
The logic of paying more for high-quality care and less for low-quality resonates. Increasingly health system leaders worldwide acknowledge that payment reforms are needed to do just that, prompted no doubt by the growing body of evidence indicating that quality is not what it should be.
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New Rules: Regulation, Markets, and the Quality of American Health Care
New Rules tells the tale of the evolution of health care regulation over the last quarter century and examines the relationship between regulation and quality improvement. The authors outline ways to convert regulation from a meaningless waste of resources into a system that can truly help…
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Curing Health Care: New Strategies for Quality Improvement
Learn how health care organizations can use the quality improvement process to help regain control and hope in a time of frustration and skyrocketing costs. In ten key lessons, the authors demonstrate what works and does not work in actual practice. They present case examples of specific health…
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An Assessment of Incentive Setting for Participation of Private For-Profit Health Care Providers in Zimbabwe
This qualitative study was conducted in Zimbabwe to assess incentives implemented by the government that were designed to influence the participation of the private for-profit sector in health care and services provision. Data was collected using two approaches: the first approach reviewed…
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Organisational Approaches to Quality Improvement and Quality Management
There are a great many articles relevant to quality improvement in organizational and managerial literature; the following offer a taster. Broadly speaking, papers cover three areas: the measurement of quality improvement; information and its potential to improve quality and/or to raise its…
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Getting Evidence Based Health Care into Practice
Evaluating interventions for getting clinical evidence into practice among groups of health care staff and promoting organizational change have been less encouraging in randomized controlled trials than initial observational studies. Through evaluation and discussion of an exploratory trial in…
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What is the Market Development Approach?
- What is the Market Development Approach (MDA) Process for Family Planning, and Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health? Brief #1 of 4 in a series on the MDA
- What is the Market System Framework and Its Role in Developing Family Planning, and Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Markets? Brief #2 of 4 in a series on the MDA
- What are Key Terms Used in a Market Development Approach for Health? Brief #3 of 4 in a series on the MDA
- The Meaning and Importance of Stewardship in Developing Family Planning, and Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Markets. Brief #4 of 4 in a series on the MDA
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