ABSTRACT
Following on from 2015’s Healthcare Reform, Quality and Safety: Perspectives, Participants, Partnerships and Prospects in 30 Countries, this book encompasses a global perspective on healthcare while shifting the focus from reform to showcasing success stories of healthcare systems worldwide. It provides explanations of why various facets of healthcare systems work well in different contexts and offers the reader alternative models for consideration. The book features contributions from 60 countries, going much further than the common practice of focusing on affluent Western nations, to provide a comprehensive exploration of the success of healthcare systems globally. The majority of literature on health-sector improvement attempts to address the problems within systems, relating the errors that can and do occur, for example, and offering solutions and preventative strategies. This book of country case studies will approach the enhancement of health systems, patient safety and the quality of care in a new and innovative way, comprehensively surveying and synthesizing the success stories of healthcare systems around the world, utilizing Hollnagel’s Safety-II approach to acknowledge the importance of exploring what goes right, what works well, and why it works. These success stories may include reference to macro, meso or micro levels of healthcare systems, various sectors (e.g., aged care, acute care or primary care), or specific programs or projects. Health System Improvement Across the Globe: Success Stories from 60 Countries is unprecedented in terms of both reach and positive emphasis, and as such will be instrumental in changing ways of thinking about and guiding health-sector improvement.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
The Americas
chapter 3|8 pages
Canada
chapter 5|8 pages
Ecuador
chapter 7|8 pages
Mexico
chapter 8|6 pages
The United States of America
part II|4 pages
Africa
chapter 11|10 pages
Namibia
chapter 13|8 pages
Rwanda
chapter 14|10 pages
South Africa
chapter 15|6 pages
West Africa (Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone)
part III|4 pages
Europe
chapter 19|6 pages
Estonia
chapter 20|8 pages
Finland
chapter 21|6 pages
France
chapter 22|8 pages
Germany
chapter 24|6 pages
Israel
chapter 26|6 pages
Malta
chapter 28|8 pages
Northern Ireland
chapter 29|6 pages
Norway
chapter 30|10 pages
Portugal
chapter 32|6 pages
Scotland
chapter 35|6 pages
Sweden
chapter 36|8 pages
Switzerland
chapter 38|6 pages
Wales
part IV|4 pages
Eastern Mediterranean
chapter 39|8 pages
Afghanistan
chapter 40|6 pages
The Gulf States (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates)
chapter 42|8 pages
Jordan
chapter 43|6 pages
Lebanon
chapter 44|8 pages
Oman
chapter 46|8 pages
Qatar
chapter 47|8 pages
The United Arab Emirates
chapter 48|8 pages
Yemen
part V|4 pages
South-East Asia and the Western Pacific