Population Reports articles from November 1998

Population Reports archives from November 1998

The Importance of Quality.
November 1, 1998... Offering good quality of care has always been a goal of family planning programs: Good care helps individuals and couples meet their reproductive health needs safely and effectively (54, 334, 402). Recently, several trends have converged to...

The Quality Movement in Health Care.
November 1, 1998... Today's quality movement in health care and family planning draws on disparate roots in medicine and industry. Medicine historically has taken a watchdog approach, relying on government licensing, professional credentials, internal audits, and,...

Client-Centered Care.
November 1, 1998... Putting clients first is key to improving the quality of health and family planning services. Planners, managers, and providers can design and offer services that both meet medical standards and treat clients as they want to be treated. ...

Principles of Quality Management.
November 1, 1998... Organizations that focus on quality rely on the same basic management principles for success, no matter what kind of product or service they provide (79, 245, 262). These principles are: * Strengthen systems and processes. By viewing an...

Quality Design.
November 1, 1998... Managers and planners can help assure good care and prevent problems from arising by designing quality into every aspect of a program, including its mission and objectives, allocation of resources, and development of standards and guidelines...

Improving Care and Raising Expectations.
November 1, 1998... Egypt's Gold Star program, supported by the USAID Population Family Planning III Project, is one of the largest publicsector quality assurance programs for family planning worldwide. Its goal is not only to upgrade the quality of family...

Quality Control.
November 1, 1998... Quality control ensures that a program's activities take place as designed. Quality control activities also may uncover flaws in design and thus point to changes that could improve quality (56, 196). In health care the main objective of...

Quality Improvement.
November 1, 1998... Quality improvement (QI) is a revolutionary idea in health care. The idea is to raise the level of care--no matter how good it may already be--through a continuous search for improvement. QI asks managers, providers, and other staff members not...