The future of health systems to 2030: a roadmap for global progress and sustainability.

Most research on health systems examines contemporary problems within one, or at most a few, countries. Breaking with this tradition, we present a series of case studies in a book written by key policymakers, scholars and experts, looking at health systems and their projected successes to 2030. Healthcare Systems: Future Predictions for Global Care includes chapters on 52 individual countries and five regions, covering a total of 152 countries.

Accomplishing reform: successful case studies drawn from the health systems of 60 countries.

Healthcare reform typically involves orchestrating a policy change, mediated through some form of operational, systems, financial, process or practice intervention. The aim is to improve the ways in which care is delivered to patients. In our book 'Health Systems Improvement Across the Globe: Success Stories from 60 Countries', we gathered case-study accomplishments from 60 countries.

Improving the quality of service delivery in South Africa Healthcare Establishments.

The focus of this paper is on the potential of public and private clinicians and researchers, working collaboratively with the Office of Health standards Compliance (OHSC) and other role players, to bring about enhanced quality and equity in health service provision.

Profiling health-care accreditation organizations: an international survey.

Objective: To describe global patterns among health-care accreditation organizations (AOs) and to identify determinants of sustainability and opportunities for improvement.

Design: Web-based questionnaire survey.

Participants: Organizations offering accreditation services nationally or internationally to health-care provider institutions or networks at primary, secondary or tertiary level in 2010.

Comparison of health service accreditation programs in low- and middle-income countries with those in higher income countries: a cross-sectional study.

Objective: The study aim was twofold: to investigate and describe the organizational attributes of accreditation programmes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to determine how or to what extent these differ from those in higher-income countries (HICs) and to identify contextual factors that sustain or are barriers to their survival.

Design: Web-based questionnaire survey.

Participants: National healthcare accreditation providers and those offering international services.

Making existing technology safer in healthcare.

Background: Technology, equipment and medical devices are vital for effective healthcare throughout the world but are associated with risks. These risks include device failure, inappropriate use, insufficient user-training and inadequate inspection and maintenance. Further risks within the developing world include challenging conditions of temperature and humidity, poor infrastructure, poorly trained service providers, limited resources and supervision, and inappropriately complex equipment being supplied without backup training for its use or maintenance.