combination of public health measures, rising living standards, and new medical knowledge all played their part in this. Even if … AMR increases, the continuing effect of these factors and of new public health measures can limit the negative …

of the North and the South in the global health arena. -- Multinational Pharmaceutical Corporations (MNPCs) ; HIV …/AIDS ; global health governance ; pricing of ARVs … wurden, die die Architektur der "Global Health Governance" entscheidend verändert haben. …

Malaria kills about 1,500 children every day. Based on the Demographic and Health Surveys, we examine malaria treatment … practices of various health care providers in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 90 percent of the world’s deaths due to … malaria occur. To assess the quality of each health care provider (including, among others, public health centers and …

study how a wave of mergers that led to the shutdown of one third of all Swedish maternity wards affected the health of … Sweden over two decades, we show that the closures negatively affected the health of mothers, while effects on infant health …

The quality of care provided by health systems contributes towards efforts to reach sustainable development goal 3 on … health and wellbeing. There is growing evidence that the impact of health interventions is undermined by poor quality of care … in lower-income countries. Quality of care will also be crucial to the success of universal health coverage initiatives …

Objective: To assess the feasibility of applying the World Health Organization's proposed 15 indicators of quality of … care for maternal and newborn health at health-facility level in low- and middle-income settings. Methods: Six of the … indicators are about maternal health, five are for newborn health and four are general cross-cutting indicators. We used data …

This open access book is a collection of 12 case studies capturing decades of experience improving health care and … implemented health improvement projects using quality improvement methodology, with analysis from global health experts on the … practical application of improvement methods. The book shows how frontline providers in health and social services can identify …

This paper assesses the quality of health care across African countries based on health providers' clinical knowledge …, unannounced visits, and visual inspections of facilities, this study assesses whether health providers are available and have … sufficient knowledge and means to diagnose and treat patients suffering from common conditions amenable to primary health care …