PHA-Exchange> Quality of Care in the Developing World

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> Going Beyond Health Care Availability In Lower-Income Countries: 
> Researchers Focus On Measuring And Improving Quality Of Care
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> For a quarter-century, development experts have concentrated primarily on 
> increasing the availability of health care in poorer countries. Now, in 
> light of evidence that the "use of health care is high, even in countries 
> with low per capita incomes and even among the poor," it is time to focus 
> more on measuring and improving the low quality of the care that many 
> patients in the developing world receive, Jishnu Das and Paul Gertler say 
> in a paper published today on the Health Affairs Web site. Das and Gertler 
> provide an overview of six studies written by experts from the World Bank 
> and elsewhere and published in Health Affairs that look at the quality of 
> health care in five different countries: India, Indonesia, Mexico, 
> Paraguay, and Tanzania.
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> You can find Das and Gertler's overview and the six individual-country 
> studies at 
> http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/hlthaff.26.3.w296/DC2
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> Health Affairs is please to make the entire package of seven papers free 
> for two weeks.
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