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Evaluating Improvement and Implementation for Health describes modern evaluation methods in healthcare and policymaking, and challenges some of the assumptions of the evidence based healthcare movement: Are innovations always an improvement? - Are they always worth it? - Can they be implemented? - More importantly, should they be implemented? These are questions with practical consequences and questions which evaluation can answer - if we choose the right methods. This book will help you do just that - match the right evaluation method to the questions being asked. Pragmatic, even-handed and accessible, Evaluating Improvement and Implementation for Health provides an overview of the many different evaluation perspectives and methods used in the health sector. Suitable for health practitioners, managers, policy advisers, and researchers, its practical and multidisciplinary approach shows how to ensure that evaluation results in action.

Health Policy. --- Delivery of Health Care. --- Program Evaluation. --- Evaluation Studies as Topic. --- Medical care --- Medical policy --- Outcome assessment (Medical care) --- Soins médicaux --- Politique sanitaire --- Evaluation des résultats (Soins médicaux) --- Evaluation. --- Evaluation --- Medical care. --- Medical policy. --- Health care policy --- Health policy --- Medicine and state --- Policy, Medical --- Public health --- Public health policy --- State and medicine --- Science and state --- Social policy --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Quality control. --- Government policy

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Health systems in lower income countries are often not able to provide for the basichealth needs of their populations. The progress of recent initiatives such as the WHO millennium development goals and new funds for disease programs is slowed by the limitations of these health service and systems. Strengthening these health systems has become a priority, but this cannot be achieved immediately, the causes of these limitations are many, complex and with deep historical origins. It is important to ensure that the new resources are used in ways which effectively strengthen these services and systems in both the short and long term. There is some experience and research which has found effective ways to strengthen service delivery and system functioning. However, this research is largely unknown or unused by policy makers and decision makers in ministries, local government, aid agencies and work bank advisors. Although evidence from elsewhere will need to be adapted to the local situation, this research can help avoid expensive mistakes and save time and money in choosing and implementing effective health service strengthening strategies. The purpose of this report is to present some of the first guidance and materials from the world bank 'Improving health service program' (WB IHSP). It gives interim guidance based on the best available evidence which was identified in a rapid review of actions for strengthening health services and systems.

Decentralization --- Disease Control & Prevention --- Health Economics & Finance --- Health Service Management and Delivery --- Health Systems Development & Reform --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Public Health Promotion

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Cet ouvrage est un guide pratique pour les leaders des services de sant, qui identifie les occasions d am lioration de la qualit comme de la s curit des soins et propose de s lectionner en priorit celles permettant simultan ment de r duire les co ts. Plusieurs m thodes d valuation du potentiel d conomie sont pr sent es. Les strat gies d am lioration propos es sont accompagn es de leurs conditions de succ s, avec uneattention particuli re port e au processus de diffusion et de p rennisation du changement, ainsi qu au r le du leader.

Public health. --- Medical policy. --- Health care policy --- Health policy --- Medical care --- Medicine and state --- Policy, Medical --- Public health --- Public health policy --- State and medicine --- Science and state --- Social policy --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Government policy

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