Assessment of quality of primary care with facility surveys: a descriptive analysis in ten low-income and middle-income countries

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2018, Pages e1176-e1185

  Macarayan, Erlyn K ^a   Gage, Anna D ^a   Doubova, Svetlana V ^b   Guanais, Frederico ^c   Lemango, Ephrem T ^d   Ndiaye, Youssoupha ^e   Waiswa, Peter ^f,g,h   Kruk, Margaret E ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

^c Social Protection and Health Division   (Peru)

^d FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Ethiopia)

^e and Statistics   (Senegal)

^f KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^g MAKERERE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Uganda)

^h Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILD HEALTH; CONFIDENTIALITY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FUNDING; GLOBAL HEALTH; HAITI; HUMAN; HUMAN DIGNITY; KENYA; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALAWI; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; NAMIBIA; NEPAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION HEALTH; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIVACY; RWANDA; SENEGAL; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TANZANIA; UGANDA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 85054736780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30440-6     Document Type: Article

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