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Crossing the Global Quality Chasm

Improving Health Care Worldwide

By: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Care Services,Board on Global Health,Committee on Improving the Quality of Health Care Globally

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Crossing the Global Quality Chasm

Improving Health Care Worldwide

In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explicit commitment to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. However, enormous gaps remain between what is achievable in human health and where global health stands today, and progress has been both incomplete and unevenly distributed. In order to meet this goal, a deliberate and comprehensive effort is needed to improve the quality of health care services globally. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide focuses on one particular shortfall in health care affecting global populations: defects in the quality of care. This study reviews the available evidence on the quality of care worldwide and makes recommendations to improve health care quality globally while expanding access to preventive and therapeutic services, with a focus in low-resource areas. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm emphasizes the organization and delivery of safe and effective care at the patient/provider interface. This study explores issues of access to services and commodities, effectiveness, safety, efficiency, and equity. Focusing on front line service delivery that can directly impact health outcomes for individuals and populations, this book will be an essential guide for key stakeholders, governments, donors, health systems, and others involved in health care.

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Crossing the Global Quality Chasm

Improving Health Care Worldwide

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Improving Health Care Worldwide

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Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World

A Critical Challenge to Achieve Global Health

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Committee on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease: Meeting the Challenges in Developing Countries

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Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World

A Critical Challenge to Achieve Global Health

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Committee on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease: Meeting the Challenges in Developing Countries

Cardiovascular disease (CVD), once thought to be confined primarily to industrialized nations, has emerged as a major health threat in developing countries. Cardiovascular disease now accounts for nearly 30 percent of deaths in low and middle income countries each year, and is accompanied by significant economic repercussions. Yet most governments, global health institutions, and development agencies have largely overlooked CVD as they have invested in health in developing countries. Recognizing the gap between the compelling evidence of the global CVD burden and the investment needed to prevent and control CVD, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) turned to the IOM for advice on how to catalyze change. In this report, the IOM recommends that the NHLBI, development agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and governments work toward two essential goals: creating environments that promote heart healthy lifestyle choices and help reduce the risk of chronic diseases, and building public health infrastructure and health systems with the capacity to implement programs that will effectively detect and reduce risk and manage CVD. To meet these goals, the IOM recommends several steps, including improving cooperation and collaboration; implementing effective and feasible strategies; and informing efforts through research and health surveillance. Without better efforts to promote cardiovascular health, global health as a whole will be undermined.

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0309147743

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The U.S. Commitment to Global Health

Recommendations for the Public and Private Sectors

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Committee on the U.S. Commitment to Global Health

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Recommendations for the Public and Private Sectors

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Committee on the U.S. Commitment to Global Health

Health is a highly valued, visible, and concrete investment that has the power to both save lives and enhance the credibility of the United States in the eyes of the world. While the United States has made a major commitment to global health, there remains a wide gap between existing knowledge and tools that could improve health if applied universally, and the utilization of these known tools across the globe. The U.S. Commitment to Global Health concludes that the U.S. government and U.S.-based foundations, universities, nongovernmental organizations, and commercial entities have an opportunity to improve global health. The book includes recommendations that these U.S. institutions: increase the utilization of existing interventions to achieve significant health gains; generate and share knowledge to address prevalent health problems in disadvantaged countries; invest in people, institutions, and capacity building with global partners; increase the quantity and quality of U.S. financial commitments to global health; and engage in respectful partnerships to improve global health. In doing so, the U.S. can play a major role in saving lives and improving the quality of life for millions around the world.

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Scaling Up Treatment for the Global AIDS Pandemic

Challenges and Opportunities

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Committee on Examining the Probable Consequences of Alternative Patterns of Widespread Antiretroviral Drug Use in Resource-Constrained Settings

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Scaling Up Treatment for the Global AIDS Pandemic

Challenges and Opportunities

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Committee on Examining the Probable Consequences of Alternative Patterns of Widespread Antiretroviral Drug Use in Resource-Constrained Settings

An estimated forty million people carry the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and five million more become newly infected annually. In recent years, many HIV-infected patients in wealthy nations have enjoyed significantly longer, good-quality lives as a result of antiretroviral therapy (ART). However, most infected individuals live in the poorest regions of the world, where ART is virtually nonexistent. The consequent death toll in these regionsâ€"especially sub-Saharan Africaâ€"is begetting economic and social collapse. To inform the multiple efforts underway to deploy antiretroviral drugs in resource-poor settings, the Institute of Medicine committee was asked to conduct an independent review and assessment of rapid scale-up ART programs. It was also asked to identify the components of effective implementation programs. At the heart of the committee's report lie five imperatives: Immediately introduce and scale up ART programs in resource-poor settings. Devise strategies to ensure high levels of patient adherence to complicated treatment regimens. Rapidly address human-resource shortages to avoid the failure of program implementation. Continuously monitor and evaluate the programs to form the most effective guidelines and treatment regimens for each population. Prepare to sustain ART for decades.

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0309092647

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Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Planning a Continuing Health Care Professional Education Institute

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Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Planning a Continuing Health Care Professional Education Institute

Today in the United States, the professional health workforce is not consistently prepared to provide high quality health care and assure patient safety, even as the nation spends more per capita on health care than any other country. The absence of a comprehensive and well-integrated system of continuing education (CE) in the health professions is an important contributing factor to knowledge and performance deficiencies at the individual and system levels. To be most effective, health professionals at every stage of their careers must continue learning about advances in research and treatment in their fields (and related fields) in order to obtain and maintain up-to-date knowledge and skills in caring for their patients. Many health professionals regularly undertake a variety of efforts to stay up to date, but on a larger scale, the nation's approach to CE for health professionals fails to support the professions in their efforts to achieve and maintain proficiency. Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions illustrates a vision for a better system through a comprehensive approach of continuing professional development, and posits a framework upon which to develop a new, more effective system. The book also offers principles to guide the creation of a national continuing education institute.

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Crossing the Global Quality Chasm

Improving Health Care Worldwide

By: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Improving the Quality of Health Care Globally

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Crossing the Global Quality Chasm

Improving Health Care Worldwide

By: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Improving the Quality of Health Care Globally

This report minces no words about the magnitude and costs of the "global quality chasm." Although evidence is scattered and incomplete, the conclusion is inescapable: For billions of people, universal health coverage--the important mainstay of the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3--will be an empty vessel unless and until quality improvement, for all nations, becomes as central an agenda as universal health coverage itself"--Preface.

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0309477905

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The U.S. Commitment to Global Health

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By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Committee on the U.S. Commitment to Global Health

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Crossing the Global Quality Chasm

Crossing the Global Quality Chasm

Crossing the Global Quality Chasm

Crossing the Global Quality Chasm

Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World

Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World

The U.S. Commitment to Global Health

The U.S. Commitment to Global Health

Scaling Up Treatment for the Global AIDS Pandemic

Scaling Up Treatment for the Global AIDS Pandemic

Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions

Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions

Crossing the Global Quality Chasm

Crossing the Global Quality Chasm

The U.S. Commitment to Global Health

The U.S. Commitment to Global Health

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