Zum Hauptinhalt springen
Nicht aus der Schweiz? Besuchen Sie lehmanns.de
Primary health care and continuous quality improvement - Alison Laycock, Ross Bailie, Lynette O'Donoghue

Primary health care and continuous quality improvement

An evidence-based guide
Buch | Softcover
422 Seiten
2025
Sydney University Press (Verlag)
978-1-74332-926-9 (ISBN)
CHF 94,25 inkl. MwSt
For most people, the main point of access to the health system is through primary health care (PHC). The fundamental premise of primary health care is that all people, everywhere, have the right to receive the appropriate care in their community. Primary health care attends to the majority of a person’s health needs throughout their lifetime, including physical, mental and social wellbeing. PHC is people-centred rather than disease-centred. It is a whole-of-society approach that includes health promotion, disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care.

Primary health care and continuous quality improvement: An evidence-based guide provides an accessible contemporary guide on implementing continuous quality improvement (CQI) in PHC settings. The authors draw together two decades of practical experience and established leadership in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health in Australia to provide guidance for health services and their staff, policymakers, researchers, funders and support organisations in an international context.

Primary health care and continuous quality improvement provides an in-depth understanding of how CQI can be used to strengthen health systems by:



identifying core concepts underpinning CQI in PHC and how CQI can improve health care quality, health equity and population health;
explaining how CQI data is used in a comprehensive approach to PHC to measure quality, and how data is generated and used for improving care;
describing CQI tools and techniques used by PHC teams;
offering guidance in interpreting data and addressing variation in care quality;
providing case studies in maternal health, children’s health, mental health and other areas, to describe the application of CQI to improve clinical care;
guiding practitioners on how to collaborate and build data systems for CQI, and strengthen links between communities and PHC services.

Continuous quality improvement is everybody’s business, and Primary health care and continuous quality improvement explains the strategic use of CQI at different levels of the health system and across sectors to achieve and sustain large-scale health improvement.

Alison Laycock is a research fellow at the University Centre for Rural Health, University of Sydney. Alison has worked collaboratively with community, research and health service partners to develop quality improvement tools and training resources, and guides for health promotion practice and health research in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care settings. Ross Bailie is professor of rural health with the University of Sydney School of Public Health and the University Centre for Rural Health, based in Lismore, Northern NSW. Ross’s research has been centred on increasing availability of information for policy and service planning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and for rural and remote communities. Lynette O’Donoghue is a proud Yankunytjatjara and Warumungu-Warlpiri woman, and a research fellow at the University Centre for Rural Health, University of Sydney. She has contributed significantly to Indigenous leadership of the NHMRC-funded Centre for Research Excellence in Strengthening Systems for Indigenous Health Care Equity, advocating meaningful engagement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and services in the design, implementation and translation of research activities.

Foreword

About the authors

Acknowledgements

Use of terms

How to use this book

List of abbreviations

*Part I: Core concepts in primary health care and continuous quality improvement**

Chapter 1: Primary health care

Chapter 2: Continuous quality improvement

Chapter 3: Adapting continuous quality improvement for primary health care

Part II: Continuous quality improvement data, tools and processes for primary health care

Chapter 4: Evidence to guide and improve care

Chapter 5: Practical tools for CQI in primary health care

Chapter 6: Using CQI cycles, and understanding and presenting data

Chapter 7: Facilitating CQI

Chapter 8: Embedding a culture of CQI

Part III: Using CQI to improve primary health care

Chapter 9: The Audit and Best Practice for Chronic Disease CQI research program

Chapter 10: Improving diabetes care

Chapter 11: Improving preventive health care

Chapter 12: Improving children’s health

Chapter 13: Improving maternal health care

Chapter 14: Developing an audit tool to improve youth health care

Chapter 15: Improving mental health and wellbeing care

Chapter 16: Improving cardiovascular health care

Chapter 17: Improving care for acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease

Chapter 18: Improving the quality of care for sexually transmissible infections

Chapter 19: Improving eye health care

Part IV: Strengthening systems for PHC equity

Chapter 20: Multi-level systems approaches

Chapter 21: Centralising respect, equity and justice in health research

Chapter 22: Learning from two decades of CQI research in Indigenous PHC

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Index; 60 Figures; 13 Tables, unspecified
Verlagsort Sydney
Sprache englisch
Maße 210 x 297 mm
Gewicht 1205 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitswesen
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-74332-926-1 / 1743329261
ISBN-13 978-1-74332-926-9 / 9781743329269
Zustand Neuware
Informationen gemäß Produktsicherheitsverordnung (GPSR)
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
das Manual zur psychologischen Gesundheitsförderung

von Gert Kaluza

Buch | Hardcover (2023)
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
CHF 55,95
Wissenschaftlich basierte Empfehlungen, Tipps und Ernährungspläne für …

von Christoph Raschka; Stephanie Ruf

Buch (2022)
Thieme (Verlag)
CHF 69,95