Quality of care - World Health Organization (WHO)
2024年11月10日 · Quality health care can be defined in many ways but there is growing acknowledgement that quality health services should be: Effective – providing evidence-based healthcare services to those who need them; Safe – avoiding harm to people for whom the care is intended; and; People-centred – providing care that responds to individual ...
Fact sheet: Quality health services - World Health Organization …
2020年7月20日 · SDG target 3.8 calls on countries to achieve UHC, including financial risk protection alongside access to quality essential health care services. Between 5.7 and 8.4 million deaths are attributed to poor quality care each year in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), which represents up to 15% of overall deaths in these countries.
Quality of care - World Health Organization (WHO)
Lost productivity due to poor quality care in these countries is estimated around $1.4 to $1.6 trillion per year. Quality of health care services is critical for achieving effective universal health coverage. As countries commit to achieving Health for All, it is an imperative to ensure health services provided are effective, safe and people ...
Health service quality must be a priority, not an afterthought: New ...
2023年12月11日 · Measurement of quality of care ; Innovations and solutions that advance quality of care. To cite an editorial from the series, quality health services are “not a “nice to have” or a one-off project with a start and end date but must be consistently delivered to everyone, everywhere, starting from primary health services to the highest ...
Quality of care in India - World Health Organization (WHO)
Quality of care is also a key component of the right to health, and the route to equity and dignity for women and children. In order to achieve universal health coverage, it is essential to deliver health services that meet quality criteria. In this regard, improving the quality of maternal health services has become an urgent need in India.
New release: WHO Quality Toolkit - World Health Organization …
2022年6月20日 · The Quality Toolkit accompanies the WHO Quality Health Services: a planning guide. The planning guide provides a roadmap for taking action across the health system to improve the quality of health services at the point of care, while the Quality Toolkit offers practical tools and approaches that can support implementation of the necessary actions.
Quality in primary health care - World Health Organization (WHO)
2018年8月2日 · It makes the case for quality improvement as a core function of primary health care and provides the perspectives of different levels of the health system on improving quality in primary health care. Achieving change in quality of care is a complex endeavour which requires a multimodal approach that recognizes the specific challenges of ...
Primary health care - World Health Organization (WHO)
2024年12月12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.
Delivering quality health services: a global imperative for universal ...
2019年10月10日 · As nations commit to achieving universal health coverage by 2030, there is a growing acknowledgement that optimal health care cannot be delivered by simply ensuring coexistence of infrastructure, medical supplies and health care providers. Improvement in health care delivery requires a deliberate focus on quality of health services, which ...
Quality health services: a planning guide - World Health …
2020年11月17日 · The WHO Quality Health Services: a planning guide focuses on actions required at the national, district and facility levels to enhance quality of health services, providing guidance on implementing key activities at each of these three levels. It highlights the need for a health systems approach to enhance quality of care, with a common understanding on the …