Health systems worldwide strive to enhance the quality of services provided to prevent and treat diseases. This specialisation delves into the academic literature and research in quality improvement, offering practical examples. Through the guidance of field leaders and guest speakers, you will explore the meaning of quality in healthcare, study approaches to improvement, and analyze the scientific study of such approaches. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of the theory and practice of improving quality in health and care, learning to apply and critique tools and techniques of quality improvement. Furthermore, you will delve into analyzing data over time to guide and evaluate improvement initiatives in health service and population health settings.
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This course comprises three modules. The first module introduces the concepts, theories, and application of Quality Improvement in healthcare. The second module focuses on the importance of using data for healthcare improvement. Lastly, the third module delves into quality improvement for population health.
This module introduces the concepts, theories, and application of Quality Improvement in healthcare from a global perspective. You will learn to recognize the characteristics of different approaches to quality improvement and apply key quality improvement methods to support improvement efforts.
In this course, you will learn about the importance of measuring the quality of care and health outcomes, utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data to evaluate change. You will also learn how to design measurement schemes suitable for improvement initiatives.
This course focuses on applying quality improvement methods in combination with population health frameworks to design a population health improvement initiative. You will also understand how the use of geographic information systems contributes to quality improvement and critique different study designs for studying quality improvement initiatives.
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