Global project 936-5992 · 1990–1995 · health systems, policy and finance · University Research Corp. (URC) Center for Human Services

Project, follow-on to 9365969, to conduct applied research to develop improved quality assurance (QA) programs for child survival (CS) services in developing countries. The Center for Human Services (CHS) will implement the project's three components: (1) methodology refinement, (2) data base development, and (3) application of QA methodologies. In the area of methodology refinement, CHS will conduct field research and analyses comparing alternative approaches to monitoring a given element of child health care or to dealing with a given deficiency. Findings will be used to develop an empirically based set of guidelines for implementing QA under widely varying circumstances. These guidelines will cover services for diarrheal disease control, pneumonia case management, growth monitoring and promotion, presumptive treatment of malaria, and at least one service outside the CS category. Immunization services will receive less emphasis, given the high quality of the work done in the predecessor project. Secondly, a quality of care database will be developed to facilitate sharing of successful QA strategies. The database will contain detailed information about common quality of care p

Source: DEC abstract, PD-FCJ-735 (1990). This is the source's own text, not a cited summary of the documents.