Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Developing Countries

Websites

This website provides an overview of the program and its progress in preventing 20,000 infants from becoming HIV infected each year by improving the implementation of PMTCT measures in clinics and hospitals in three districts in KwaZulu-Natal.

International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua)

The International Society for Quality in Health Care is a non-profit organization that guides health care professionals and organizations in improving care. Their website provides an overview of the organization’s mission, and the benefits of membership and the ISQua Journal.

Quality and Safety in Health Care

This international, peer-reviewed journal provides information and articles regarding the quality of health care and patient safety.

Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit (RHRU)

RHRU is part of the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. The website provides an overview of RHRU's work and documents on the management of HIV/AIDS in South Africa.

UNICEF’s The State of the World’s Children 2009

This annual report from UNICEF covers major issues in maternal and neonatal health and the barriers that women around the world face in receiving proper care. The report focuses specifically on maternal and neonatal health in Africa and Asia.

United Nations Millennium Development Goals

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals serve to end poverty by tackling issues such as HIV/AIDs, maternal and child health, gender equality, and hunger. The website provides an overview of the interventions and targets countries around the world are striving to meet in order to reach these goals by 2015.

University Research Co., LLC

The URC helps clients improve program management using scientific and research-based methods. The website offers descriptions of their programs, as well as technical resources and publications.

World Health Organization (WHO)

This website provides health information by country and by health topic, as well as information databases and statistics. It is a useful resource for publications such as the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist and world health reports.

WHO Health System Strengthening

WHO Health System Strengthening (HSS) addresses the importance of strengthening health systems in order to spread high-quality health care across the board. The website provides publications, reports, and frameworks for HSS, in which quality improvement plays a vital part.

Other IHI Resources

IHI Open School for Health Professions

This free, interactive online school provides courses and tools for students and professionals to become agents of change within their organizations and communities.

IHI Topics: HIV/AIDs

This section of the IHI website provides a general overview of HIV/AIDs as it relates to treatment and high-quality care of the disease. There are also tools for quality improvement of HIV care and information from the National Quality Center, who partners with IHI to maintain this topic area.

IHI Topics: Improvement Methods

This portion of the IHI website provides information on all aspects of quality improvement, including the Model for Improvement, rapid cycles of learning and testing, and how to spread changes.

Partner Websites

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Institute of Child Health at the University of London

The Health Foundation

Women and Children First

Presentations

Tools

Lessons Learnt About Quality Improvement in Developing Nations: Presentations from the International Forum 2009

These presentations from the 2009 International Forum Workshop "Lessons learnt about quality improvement from projects in developing nations" provide insight into the adaptation of quality improvement methods to resource to poor communities. The presentations address improvement programs in several African countries.

Presentations on Rapid Spread and Scale-Up of Systems of Care in the Developing World

This series of presentations from IHI’s Developing Countries conference “Methods to Rapidly Spread Innovation and Scale-up Systems of Care in the Developing World” addresses different models of spread and the real-world application of large scale spread principles.

The Definition, Assessment, Assurance, and Improvement of Quality of Care in Developing Countries

Under the sponsorship of The Rockefeller Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 28 participants from 15 countries met from October 13-16, 2008, at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy. They convened to explore the following topic: Definition, Assessment, Assurance, and Improvement of the Quality of Health Care in Developing Countries. Co-chairs of the meeting were Donald M. Berwick, Lord Nigel Crisp, Sheila Leatherman, and Francis Omaswa. Click the link above to view presentations given by participants.

HAART Calculator

Use this tool to arrive at a rough estimate of the number of adults who will need to be started on HAART each year in a particular District, and the number of newly infected infants infected each year in that District.

IHI Virtual Workspace

IHI Workspace is an area for individuals to create and track improvement projects, including data collection and measuring changes over time.

IHI Improvement Methods Tools

IHI has developed a basic set of tools to help organizations institute and accelerate improvement, including tools for collecting information and data, analyzing processes, group work, and tracking changes.

USAID Global Health eLearning Center

The Global Health eLearning Center developed by USAID provides free online courses that address key public health and technical health care issues.

Literature

Featured articles written by IHI faculty and staff:

Challenges for routine health system data management in a large public programme to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in South Africa

Mate KS, Bennett B, Mphatswe W, Barker P, Rollins N. Challenges for routine health system data management in a large public programme to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in South Africa. PLoS ONE. 2009 May;4(5)e5483. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005483.

Obtaining complete and accurate data from clinical sites presents a major challenge for tracking the progress of South Africa's efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV. This paper assesses the completeness and accuracy of routine PMTCT data submitted to the district health information system in three districts of KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa.

More articles, books, and presentations
Chosen by our faculty on the health care topics and countries that the IHI Developing Countries program engages