The launch of two landmark publications on the quality of care in the world's poorest populations, including The Lancet Global Health Commission on high-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era ...

Mylène Lagarde, Luis Huicho, and Irene Papanicolas discuss different strategies policy makers can use to motivate health providers in order to improve quality of care. The inclusion of universal health coverage as a target ...

Poor rural populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) do not have access to diagnostic laboratories. Until recently, this has meant that they could not be screened for asymptomatic infections such as HIV or ...

Recientemente se ha publicado la edición de la encuesta Lima Cómo Vamos ( http://www.limacomovamos.org/ ). Este instrumento explora la percepción de la calidad de vida por parte los habitantes de la ciudad de Lima, así ...

This article describes the cores of social significance identified in the speeches of primary healthcare professionals regarding the quality of the actions performed. This is a case study carried out in two services organized ...

Objective: to evaluate the process and outcome indicators of the prenatal care developed in primary care, comparing traditional care models and the Family Health Strategy. Method: this is a cohort study, conducted with an ...

To provide equal access, health care provision should be distributed across geodemographic space based on need. In Argentina, the social security, publicly funded health care and private health care subsectors are responsible ...

We thank Baltica Cabieses for describing the importance of simple innovation in addressing some of the challenges reported in the UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health, particularly regarding clinical consultations ...