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- Title
National Quality Policy and Strategy of the Health Services in Health Systems of Developing Countries: A Scoping Review.
- Authors
Fallah, Razieh; Maleki, Mohammadreza; Aryankhesal, Aidin; Haghdoost, Aliakbar
- Abstract
It has always been argued that countries should not be inactive about the quality of health services. Therefore, a clear policy needs to be created regarding how quality of health services should be. The present scoping review was aimed to identify and map the available evidence regarding the National Quality Policy and Strategy (NQPS) of the health services in health systems of developing countries, graphically and tabularly. We followed the published methodological guidance of the Joanna Briggs Institute reviews. Also, we employed a narrative thematic synthesis integrated with the systematic analysis using the World Health Organization's approach of NQPS, and the multiple-streams framework of Kingdon. We included 33 records that met the inclusion criteria; these records were published between 2010 and 2019. Meanwhile, government documents were the most frequent records (61%). Zimbabwe, Indonesia, and Sudan were the most frequent locations (each one 8%). The Ministry of Health was in charge of the ultimate responsibility for developing the NQPS in all identified countries. Besides, 82% of the countries were in the development phase of NQPS formulation, and convergence of three streams was observed in Indonesia, Sudan, and Tanzania. It seems that the African countries were informed about their quality issues, and the need for having NQPS have been more popular with them. We recommend that future research focuses on examining NQPS in terms of prioritizing in the agenda-setting phase of the policy-making cycle, and also, document analysis of all identified NQPS based on the core eight interdependent elements related to the NQPS approach.
- Subjects
MEDICAL quality control; GOVERNMENT publications; DEVELOPING countries; QUALITY of service; GOVERNMENT programs
- Publication
International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2024, Vol 15, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
2008-7802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4103/ijpvm.ijpvm_397_22