QUALITY OF CARE
General Quality of Care

The Population Council has worked for decades on projects to improve the quality of health care. Currently, several projects are being implemented using the conceptual framework developed by Judith Bruce in the early 1990s to assess the quality of clinical services and design interventions to improve the quality of care.

Originally developed for family planning services, the framework has been expanded to include antenatal care, reproductive health services, client–provider communication, and access to and utilization of health services.

Recent notable projects include the following:

FRONTIERS Projects

• Latin America and the Caribbean: Introducing a Quality and Gender Perspective in Reproductive Health Organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean

• Bangladesh: The Impact of Quality of Care Upon Contraceptive Use: Evidence from Longitudinal Data from Rural Bangladesh

• Bolivia: Assessing the Impact of a Community-based Intervention on Service Utilization in Family Planning and Reproductive Health in Bolivia

• Bolivia: Consolidating a Gender Perspective in the PROCOSI Network

• Bolivia: Cross-cultural Adaptation of Reproductive Health Services in Bolivia

• Bolivia: Effects and Cost of Implementing a “Gender-Sensitive” Reproductive Health Program

• Bolivia: Technical Assistance to Pathfinder for Postabortion Care Operations Research

• Bolivia: Technical Assistance and Training for PROCOSI's Operations Research Program

• Bolivia: Use of Systematic Screening to Provide Reproductive Health Services in Bolivia

• Bolivia, India, Mali, Senegal: Extending Operations Research to the Problems of Scale Up: Costs, Compliance, and Effectiveness of Systematic Screening

• Ecuador: Extending Operations Research to Social Marketing Programs

• Ecuador: Impact of Varying Frequency and Magnitude of Price Increases for Clinical Reproductive Health Services

• Egypt: Counseling Family Planning Clients About Sexuality and the Use of Barrier Methods: An Exploratory Intervention Study in Egypt

• Egypt: Impact of Improved Client–Provider Interaction on Women’s Achievement of Fertility Goals

• Egypt, India: Technical Assistance for Implementing Best Practices in the Asia and Near East Region

• Ghana: Health Sector Reforms and Implications for Reproductive Health Priority Setting

• Ghana: Improving the Ghanaian Safe Motherhood Program

• Guatemala: Availability and Acceptability of Intrauterine Devices in Guatemala
• Guatemala: Improving Client Informed Choice for Postpartum/Postabortion Clients
• Guatemala: Informing the Medical Community in Guatemala About Emergency Contraception
• Guatemala: Using an Algorithm to Improve Family Planning Counseling at Rural Clinics

• Honduras: Expansion of the Role of Nurse Auxiliaries in the Provision of Family Planning Services

• Honduras: Systematic Screening as a Strategy to Increase Services Integration and Revenue in Honduras

• Honduras: Expansion of Postpartum/Postabortion Contraceptive Services in Honduras

• India: Development of Quality Assurance in Reproductive Health Services in District Public Health Systems

• India: Scaling Up Utilization of the Quality Assurance (QA) Checklist in India

• India: Systematic Screening for Integrating Reproductive Health Services in India

• India: Scaling Up the Systematic Screening Instrument Project in India

• Kenya: Taking Critical Services to the Home: Scaling Up Home-based Maternal and Postnatal Care, Including Family Planning, Through Community Midwives

• Peru: Global Agenda: Provider and Client Impacts of an Intervention Designed to Improve the Provider–Client Interaction in Ministry of Health Clinics in Peru

• Peru: Monitoring Family Planning Providers’ Compliance with the Quality-of-Care Norms of Peru’s Ministry of Health

• Peru: Sustainability of Postabortion Care

• Peru: Year 2000: Monitoring Family Planning Providers’ Compliance with the Quality-of-Care Norms of Peru’s Ministry of Health

• Philippines and Senegal: Documenting the Impact of Quality of Care on Women’s Reproductive Health in the Philippines and Senegal

• Romania: Improving Health Care Providers’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices in Reproductive Health in Rural Romania

• Senegal: Using Systematic Screening to Enhance Integration of Reproductive Health Service Delivery in Senegal

• South Africa: Creating Conditions for Implementing a Province-wide Comprehensive, Evidence-based Antenatal and Postnatal Care Package in KwaZulu-Natal

• Uganda: Global Agenda: Improving the Quality of Family Planning Services in Uganda

• West Bank and Gaza: Post-test Survey for the West Bank/Gaza Pilot Health Project

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See Also

• Quality of Care: Publications/Resources
• Quality of Care Publications/Resources from the Council's Frontiers in Reproductive Health Program
• Improving the Quality of Reproductive Health Services Publications/Resources from the Council's Ebert Program on Critical Issues in Reproductive Health
• Quality/Calidad/Qualité (booklet series on quality of care in reproductive health)

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This page updated 8 May 2008

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