High quality health systems in the SDG era: Country-specific priorities for improving quality of care

Gagan Thapa; Manoj Jhalani; Sebastián García-Saisó; Address Malata; Sanam Roder-DeWan; Hannah H Leslie

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002946

High quality health systems in the SDG era: Country-specific priorities for improving quality of care

PLoS Med. 2019 Oct 3;16(10):e1002946. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002946. eCollection 2019 Oct.

Authors

Gagan Thapa¹, Manoj Jhalani², Sebastián García-Saisó³, Address Malata⁴, Sanam Roder-DeWan^{5

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Affiliations

¹ Federal Parliament of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal.
² National Health Mission, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India.
³ General Directorate for Quality of Healthcare and Education, Ministry of Health, Ciudad de México, Mexico.
⁴ Malawi University of Science and Technology, Limbe, Malawi.
⁵ Health Section, UNICEF, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
⁶ Health Systems: Impact Evaluation and Policy, Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
⁷ Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Abstract

Hannah Leslie and co-authors discuss priorities in individual countries for health system reform.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Communicable Diseases / epidemiology
Delivery of Health Care
Global Health*
Goals
Health Care Reform*
Health Equity*
Health Priorities
Health Promotion / methods
Health Services Research
Humans
Maternal-Child Health Services / organization & administration
Noncommunicable Diseases / epidemiology
Program Development
Quality Improvement
Quality of Health Care*

Grants and funding

Publication of this work is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, OPP1161450 – Margaret E. Kruk. https://www.gatesfoundation.org/. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.