International Journal for Quality in Health Care
Volume 30, 2018, Pages 5-9

Quality improvement and emerging global health priorities (Article) (Open Access)

Abrampah N.M.* , Syed S.B. , Hirschhorn L.R. , Nambiar B. , Iqbal U. , Garcia-Elorrio E. , Chattu V.K. , Devnani M. , Kelley A.E.
  • a Service Delivery and Safety Department, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, Genève, 1211, Switzerland
  • b Service Delivery and Safety Department, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, Genève, 1211, Switzerland
  • c Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 625 North Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611, United States
  • d Institute for Global Health, University College London, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH, United Kingdom, Academy of Medical Sciences, Malawi University of Science and Technology, PO Box 5196, Limbe, Malawi
  • e Global Health and Development Department, College of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, No. 250 Wu-Xing Street, Taipei, 11031, Taiwan
  • f Health Care Quality and Patient Safety, Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, Dr. Emilio Ravignani 2024, Caba, 1414, Argentina
  • g Public Health Unit, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Building 39, First Floor, Uriah Butler Highway, Champ Fleurs, Trinidad, West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
  • h Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Sector 12, Chandigarh, 160012, India
  • i Service Delivery and Safety Department, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, Genève, 1211, Switzerland

Abstract

Quality improvement approaches can strengthen action on a range of global health priorities. Quality improvement efforts are uniquely placed to reorient care delivery systems towards integrated people-centred health services and strengthen health systems to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). This article makes the case for addressing shortfalls of previous agendas by articulating the critical role of quality improvement in the Sustainable Development Goal era. Quality improvement can stimulate convergence between health security and health systems; address global health security priorities through participatory quality improvement approaches; and improve health outcomes at all levels of the health system. Entry points for action include the linkage with antimicrobial resistance and the contentious issue of the health of migrants. The work required includes focussed attention on the continuum of national quality policy formulation, implementation and learning; alongside strengthening the measurement-improvement linkage. Quality improvement plays a key role in strengthening health systems to achieve UHC. © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press in association with the International Society for Quality in Health Care.

Author Keywords

Health security SDGs Resilience quality improvement Health systems

Index Keywords

Quality Improvement total quality management sustainable development health care planning health care policy insurance environmental protection health insurance human priority journal Humans migrant Health Priorities standards Article organization and management migration health care quality global health Quality Assurance, Health Care antibiotic resistance Health Policy Conservation of Natural Resources Transients and Migrants Delivery of Health Care integrated health care system Universal Coverage Learning health care delivery
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85047926371&doi=10.1093%2fintqhc%2fmzy007&partnerID=40&md5=ce44d8ca69f7f9b7dd62c44d48f2ec1a
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzy007
ISSN: 13534505
Cited by: 6
Original Language: English